TO GO WITH AFP STORY BY PETER HUTCHISON, "World's safest place? Vermont leads US vaccine race"
An employee stacks boxes at the Vermont Creamery in Websterville, Vermont on June 29, 2021. - Vermont -- known for Bernie Sanders, the first Ben and Jerry's and golden fall foliage -- has a new claim to fame: America's most-vaccinated state against Covid-19. Home to red farmhouses and signs warning drivers of moose, the US's second-least populated state recently became the first to partially vaccinate 80 percent of eligible residents. (Photo by Ed JONES / AFP)