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Raul Valenzuela sat inside his living room in Corpus Christi, Texas, as two firefighters prepared him for a Covid-19 vaccine.
Largely homebound, Valenzuela couldn’t imagine going out for a shot. But he knew the pandemic has been getting worse in the city, so he jumped at the opportunity to get vaccinated at his house. “I finally got a number off the TV, and I called it,” he said.
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