Vaccine clinics operated by the University of Alabama at Birmingham delivered more shots to minorities than national and state averages, according to statistics released Wednesday. About 31 percent of the vaccines delivered by UAB went to minorities, including almost 21 percent to Black patients. Almost 27 percent of the population in Alabama is Black. Staff at UAB also delivered about 7 .
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Alabama saw a 31% jump in COVID vaccines last week, now slowed by supply
Updated Feb 18, 2021;
Posted Feb 18, 2021
Large-scale COVID vaccination sites like this one at the Hoover Met Complex opened across Alabama in early February 2021.UAB Media Relations
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For one beautiful week, Alabama’s drive-thru vaccine clinics operated so smoothly, you’d think they also offered waffle-cut fries.
“People were commenting that we had a Chick-Fil-A type process,” said Maegan Austin, spokeswoman for Vaughan Regional Medical Center, which ran a drive-thru clinic in Selma that gave out its entire allotment of 5,000 vaccine doses in less than three days.
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