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They used their car to stay warm when a winter storm brought down the Texas power grid. In a state that doesn’t require carbon monoxide alarms in homes, they had no warning they were poisoning themselves.

Roderick Dashwood, director of the Center for Epigenetics and Disease Prevention in Houston, says anyone interested in health products should be aware of what they’re actually ingesting.

Public-health leaders in rural America are turning toward the next and more difficult stage of the nationwide vaccination campaign: persuasion.

When it comes to getting the coronavirus vaccine, Mississippi residents have an abundance of options. But public health experts say the pileup of unclaimed appointments in the state exposes something more worrisome: the large number of people who are reluctant to get inoculated.

As the majority of adults in the country now sit on the cusp of eligibility for the COVID-19 vaccines, the U.S. is shifting into the first real-world test of Americans’ acceptance of the inoculations.