Dr. Ala Stanford awoke Wednesday and began scrolling through her morning emails.
Among them, a COVID-19 Vaccination Reminder from the Philadelphia Department of Public Health included her appointment time for the first of two injections.
In a matter of months, millions of Americans could receive similar emails, phone calls, text messages and postcards in a national campaign to beat back the pandemic. On Wednesday, a limited supply of Pfizer-BioNTech s BNT162b2 went to front-line workers and those deemed at highest risk for coronavirus infection.
A pediatric surgeon, Stanford in April launched the Black Doctors COVID Consortium and formed a mobile COVID-19 testing operation. In treating others, Stanford and countless others risk the safety not just themselves but close family as they serve on the front lines against a highly contagious virus. That war is far from over.
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