“I am frustrated,” said Dr. Howard Jarvis, medical director in the ER at Cox Medical Center South in Springfield. “It was one thing, you know, back in the fall, and back in the winter before we had a vaccine. You didn’t really have a choice.” Now the emergency room is packed with unvaccinated COVID patients. Credit: KANSAS CITY STAR

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