A tale of two counties: Texas communities illustrate deep divide in COVID-19 vaccination efforts

In Texas, vaccination rates vary drastically from county to county.

Americans remain deeply polarized over the renewed push to get the country vaccinated.

Nowhere is such a divide more evident than in Texas, where the vaccination rates tend to vary drastically from county to county.

Presidio County -- a remote area of southwest Texas, home to approximately 7,800 people -- while rural, boasts the state's highest vaccination rate, with nearly every one of its eligible residents fully vaccinated.

In the county, cell service is often spotty, and the closes medical center is hours away from most homes, but residents who chose to get vaccinated said they saw it as a matter of life or death.