Trending Now: With delta variant surging, vaccine holdouts in coronavirus hot spots including Louisiana, Arkansas and Missouri turn out for shots

More than 4.7 million Americans have rolled up their sleeves in the past two weeks, as misgivings about the shots based on ideology, apathy or fear have taken a back seat to the desire to protect themselves and their loved ones. ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌  ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌  ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌  ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌  ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌  ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌  ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌  ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌  ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌  ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌

Sign up for alerts Must-read stories around major news events   Trending Now July 31, 10:54 a.m. EDT With delta variant surging, vaccine holdouts in coronavirus hot spots including Louisiana, Arkansas and Missouri turn out for shots More than 4.7 million Americans have rolled up their sleeves in the past two weeks, as misgivings about the shots based on ideology, apathy or fear have taken a back seat to the desire to protect themselves and their loved ones. Read more   Advertisement

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Their neighbors called covid-19 a hoax. Can these ICU nurses forgive them?

For the nurses in the Appalachian highlands, it is as if they fought in a war no one acknowledges.

SUPPORT OUR WORK   Get one year for $40 (Katherine Frey/The Washington Post) Her neighbors called covid a hoax. She risked her life to save them. By Peter Jamison The pandemic hit late but hard in the Appalachian highlands — the mountainous region that includes Southwest Virginia and Northeast Tennessee — and over the winter many of its victims had ended up on ventilators tended by Emily Boucher and her fellow nurses at Johnston Memorial Hospital. They were enduring the traumas known to ICU workers across the world: days filled with death, nights ruined by dreams in which they found themselves at infected patients' bedsides without masks. But they were also enduring a trauma that many doctors and nurses elsewhere were not: the suspicion and derision of those they risked their lives to protect. Conspiracy theories about the pandemic and lies recited on social media — or at White House news conferences — had penetrated deep into their community. When refrigerated trailers were brought in to relieve local hospitals' overflowing morgues, people said they were … Read more »   More from The Post   CDC reversal on indoor masking prompts experts to ask, 'Where's the data?' By Joel Achenbach, Yasmeen Abutaleb, Ben Guarino and Carolyn Y. Johnson ●  Read more »   Another coronavirus variant has reached Florida. Here's what you need to know. By Lateshia Beachum ●  Read more »   Many of our lives became static during the past year. These people chose new directions. By Amanda Long ●  Read more »   Get unlimited access for just $40 Your support helps our journalists bring the world's stories to light. Subscribe

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