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we first came in to van buren in 2020 when covid was first starting to surge.closed for covid we wanted to come back and see what had changed. by the end of this spring many thought covid was over but in the past few weeks it's raged through town. the vaccination rate is very low with only 27% fully vaccinated. >> the overwhelming majority of our patients that are admitted to the hospital with clinically severe covid are unvaccinated. i didn't realize how unvaccinated we were. i guess that's my fault. i didn't continue to push as hard as i should have to get people vaccinated because i thought everybody was because the virus and the disease was abating. but i was wrong. it came back like a brush fire. >> reporter: are you vaccinated? >> no, but i will be. i was pretty skeptical of it until i kind of watched all this happen. >> jim's wife, ruth, fought cancer for 12 years but covid killed her in 8 days. he says the doctor told her not to take the vaccine because of the chemo. when did your wife die? >> she died the 20th. i talked to her up to sunday when she die

in van buren after just two days of school this august about 20 kids tested positive.ive days later almost a quarter of students were under quarantine. the preschool had to close for two weeks. people in town were gossiping about who had it and where they got it it. and they'd all seen our last story. >> the last story you did, well, i kind of thought it was all bullshit myself. >> reporter: tell me more. tell me why. >> i think people here try to take care of each other. they need to walk through the covid ward. that changes your mind. >> reporter: jim admits some people are pretty set in their views. >> a good friend of mine, he hasn't had the shot but everywhere he goes he wears a mask and he's probably one of the best guys i know. you're not going to change anything about him. maybe you ought to interview him. >> reporter: would he talk to us? >> yeah. but you probably wouldn't like what he'd tell you. >> reporter: that's okay. >> let me get the phone. [ phone ringing ] >> hello? >> hey, i need you to come down here. i'm serious. >> who are you surrounded by? >> a

now van buren the town in ozarks cnn visited last fall is seeing another surge.a little shocking. it's really raging here. >> everybody is scared. everybody is coming down with it. it's almost like a plague. >> i had both shots of the vaccine, and people just acted like it doesn't help. >> it bothers me sometimes that people act like covid is a big joke. i always want to say, well, why don't you just come right up here to the cemetery and i'll show you my husband's grave and i can show you it's no joke. >> over the five days we spent in carter county, missouri, it felt like covid was closing in around us. the positivity rate kept climbing and is now 32%. some people we wanted to interview told us they just been exposed or were too sick to talk. >> this is a chicken. hold that in your hand. >> reporter: we first came in october of 2020 when covid was starting to surge in rural america. we heard one of the diners we interviewed in had close ffrd covid, we wanted to come back and see what had changed. many thought covid was over but in the past few weeks it's raged

in van buren, after just two days of school, about 20 kids tested positive.ter, almost a qua quarter were under quarantine. the preschool had to close. >> the last story you did, i thought it was all bullshit myself. >> reporter: tell me why. >> i think people here try to take care of each other. they need to walk through the covid ward. that will change your mind. >> reporter: jim admits some people are pretty set in their views. >> a good friend of mine, everywhere he goes, he wears a mask. he's probably one of the best guys i know. you're not going to change anything about him. maybe you ought to interview him. >> reporter: would he talk to us? >> yes, but you probably wouldn't like what he says. >> reporter: that's okay. >> let me get my phone. i'm surrounded. >> who are you surrounded by? >> a bunch of women. >> okay, i'll be right there. >> all right. they're going to interview you. >> oh, no, they ain't. >> oh, yeah. come on. >> can i sit down there by you? >> reporter: why do you not want the vaccine? >> i ain't taking it. i don't like people trying t