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Biden Administration Recruits Community Clinics To Help Solve Vaccine Inequities By Blake Farmer | WPLN Thursday, February 11, 2021 Patients at a community health center in Nashville wait for their vaccine appointment. The Biden administration has announced that federally-funded community health centers around the country will start getting direct shipments of the vaccine. Blake Farmer / WPLN News Mary Barnett is one of about a dozen seniors who got a COVID-19 vaccine on...

El Cajon native named to Biden-Harris COVID-19 Health Equity Task Force The White House and last updated 2021-02-10 14:38:22-05 SAN DIEGO (CNS) - President Joe Biden announced Wednesday he has nominated El Cajon native Mayra Alvarez to serve on the Biden-Harris COVID-19 Health Equity Task Force. Alvarez is one of a dozen people nominated to serve as non-federal members of the task force, which was created to help ensure an equitable response to the pandemic, according to White House officials. ...

South Florida will represent in Washington, as part of President Biden's COVID-19 Health Equity Task Force.

With COVID-19 vaccine still in short supply, state and local officials vowed Tuesday to make improvements to ensure doses are delivered equitably and that California’s hardest-hit, harder-to-reach communities aren’t left behind.  Recent data released by L.A. County showed that Black, La

Idaho Nonprofit Center adds staffers, board members By: IBR Staff February 10, 2021 Comments Off on Idaho Nonprofit Center adds staffers, board members Cristi Schooley The Idaho Nonprofit Center welcomes Cristi Schooley as the communication & program coordinator. She joins the organization from Idaho Public Television where she worked in various roles for more than six years. She has a Bachelor of Arts in Communication and Mass Communication Broadcast Journalism and a minor in Marketing ...

Vincent Toranzo, a senior at Pembroke Pines Charter High School, is among 12 members named to President Biden’s COVID-19 Health Equity Task Force.

New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo announced Wednesday that the state was partnering with the federal government to open the two largest mass vaccination sites to date in Queens and Brooklyn to serve "socially vulnerable communities" and battle vaccine inequity.

UpdatedWed, Feb 10, 2021 at 12:57 pm ET Reply The mass vaccination sites will open at York College and Medgar Evers College as part of a state-federal partnership to increase equity. (NY Office of the Governor.) NEW YORK, NY — The states largest vaccination sites to date will soon open in Brooklyn and Queens, bringing 3,000 coronavirus vaccines per day to the citys hardest-hit neighborhoods, Gov. Andrew Cuomo announced. The governor said Wednesday that mass vaccination sites will open the wee...

South Florida will represent in Washington, as part of President Biden's COVID-19 Health Equity Task Force.

Biden picks Meharry’s Dr. James Hildreth for COVID-19 Health Equity Task Force FILE Dr. James Hildreth announces that a $34 million donation has been made to Meharry Medical College, September 3, 2020. and last updated 2021-02-10 11:56:42-05 NASHVILLE, Tenn. (WTVF) — President Joe Biden has selected Dr. James Hildreth, president and CEO of Meharry Medical College, as one of 12 members of the COVID-19 Health Equity Task Force. Dr. Hildreth released a statement, saying hes "excited" to...