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The decision was easy for Mary Shepard.
Shepard, a Hazel Dell resident, retired from a nearly 40-year career in medicine in 2015. But the COVID-19 pandemic pulled her back.
Shepard is now volunteering as part of a Kaiser Permanente push to vaccinate homebound folks in Washington and Oregon.
Shepard said it would be hard to watch but not help as America’s vaccination push kicks into gear.
