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California Will Soon Tie Reopening To Vaccination Equity Rates, Dedicate 40% Of Doses To Low-Income Communities
Wednesday, March 3, 2021 | Sacramento, CA
Licensed vocational nurse Jelisa Stewart prepares a dose of the Moderna COVID-19 vaccine for farmworkers at a County of Santa Clara mobile vaccination clinic at Monterey Mushrooms in Morgan Hill, Calif., Wednesday, March 3, 2021.
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California will begin dedicating 40% of all COVID-19 vaccine doses to the communities hit hardest by the pandemic, a move administration officials say is aimed at stemming harm in those neighborhoods while strategically targeting the communities where the virus typically spreads fastest.
The state will send the vaccines to the neighborhoods in the bottom 25% of its Healthy Places Index, which assesses Census tracts based on measures related to the health and socio-economic condition of residents. Many of those areas are in poorer neighbo