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When health workers at a Rio Grande Valley hospital declined the COVID-19 vaccine, a state senator and law enforcement lined up

So many workers at an Edinburg hospital declined the new COVID-19 vaccine that it offered doses to other medical workers in the region. The vaccine ended up going to nonmedical personnel as well.

By Vianna Davila, The Texas Tribune and ProPublica, and Karen Brooks Harper, The Texas Tribune
State Senator Eddie Lucio Jr., D-Brownsville, received the COVID-19 vaccination at Doctors Hospital at Renaissance in Edinburg on Dec. 19, 2020.
People waited in line at Doctors Hospital at Renaissance Conference Center in Edinburg to receive the Pfizer vaccine on Dec. 19, 2020
Health workers at Doctors Health at Renassaince prepped COVID-19 vaccines for administration on Dec. 19, 2020

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