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Shutting down school vaccine clinics doesn't protect minors – it hurts people who are already disadvantaged

  • Written by Katherine A. Foss, Professor of Media Studies, Middle Tennessee State University
imageA high school student gets his COVID-19 shot at a pop-up vaccine clinic at a public charter school in Los Angeles.Al Seib / Los Angeles Times via Getty Images

A 1918 newspaper article captures public attitudes toward a typhoid vaccine clinic at the Oakdale schoolhouse in Louisville, Kentucky. “Everybody comes – railroad men, children,...

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