Kentucky’s backroad churches may be key to saving hospitals overwhelmed by COVID

Pastor Billy Joe Lewis was all in favor when a local health worker suggested a COVID-19 vaccine clinic in the parking lot of his church in Smilax, Ky. "We

Public health workers are going church to church and house to house in the state’s secluded valleys to dispel COVID myths, ease isolation, bring aid, and convince wary residents to get vaccinated.

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