How one woman vaccinated her town and brought attention to rural Alabama ⬇ General store owner Dorothy Oliver wanted to make the process of getting vaccinated as easy as possible for her neighbors, so she volunteered to schedule their appointments and drive them to and from vaccination sites — about 40 minutes away. “All of them know me,” she said of her customers. “They come in, and I just start talking to them like I know them.” Even for the customers whose names Oliver doesn’t know, she isn’t afraid to ask them about their vaccination statuses. There are approximately 350 people in the Panola area, and according to Oliver’s records, only about 20 adults in the community are left unvaccinated. She keeps a slowly dwindling list of them. She has walked door-to-door in the community with Sumter County Commissioner Drucilla Russ-Jackson many times this year to talk to her neighbors about vaccination. “A lot of them had a lot of doubts, and then I had a lot of them that were excited that they had somebody who could help them,” she said. #panola #alabama #vaccines #vaccinations