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Dr. Ala Stanford has started to notice a pattern.
Each morning when the Black Doctors COVID-19 Consortium starts vaccinating at a church or at the Liacouras Center, she sees the faces she’s expecting to see: Older people. People with underlying health conditions. Teachers and SEPTA workers and home health workers. Black people. As the hours draw on, though, the demographics start to shift.
“People who were able-bodied are starting to come into poor neighborhoods to get vaccines,” said Stanford, the group’s founder. “And that’s horrible. But shamelessly, they are.”
Stanford has found herself in a bind: She wants to advertise her clinic so the Black community knows where she is and can come out to get vaccinated. She wants to post on social media, disclosing her location and inviting first responders and people who live nearby to come out. She wants to save room for walk-ups, because many older people aren’t computer-savvy and can’t access the Black Docto
We did the job : Philly Fighting COVID CEO defends himself after city ends partnership
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Philly Fighting COVID CEO defends himself after city ends partnership
The Philly Fighting COVID CEO defended himself during a Friday press conference after the city ended their partnership after they learned that Andrei Doroshin had switched his privacy notice to potentially sell patient data, a development he calls a glitch that he quickly fixed.
PHILADELPHIA - When Philadelphia began getting its first batches of COVID-19 vaccines, it looked to partner with someone who could get a mass vaccination site up and running quickly.
City Hall officials might have looked across the skyline to the world-renowned health providers at the University of Pennsylvania, Temple University or Jefferson Health.
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After the city’s formal request for vaccine distribution partners went out, Johnson sent emails to PFC’s Doroshin, discussing financial details of his application.