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McClatchy Washington Bureau
McClatchy Washington Bureau
National
Michael Wilner and Francesca Chambers

Harris emerges as leading voice fighting COVID-19 vaccine hesitancy

WASHINGTON — When White House aides were deciding where in Florida Vice President Kamala Harris should travel this week to promote coronavirus vaccines, they looked at the numbers.

The federal government set up four mass COVID-19 vaccination sites across the state last month. The site in Miami has been mired in confusion, with rules frequently shifting in order for officials to fill capacity, but the site has managed to give out most of its doses.

By contrast, the site in Jacksonville has been consistently underutilized, administering only 21,047 shots out of a capacity of 54,000 over the last two and a half weeks.

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