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SAN DIEGO (KUSI) – A new Vaccine Outreach Equity sub-committee, formed by the County Board of Supervisors, met for the first time Wednesday to discuss better ways to make distribution of the vaccine more accessible. JoAnn Fields serves as the Filipino Resource Center Director, but when she realized how many people were struggling to gain access to vaccine appointments, her advocacy expanded. “We have to do better, we have to figure out something more and just in a personal way, my imagination is running, how do I help?” Fields said. “It’s creating a racial divide, a digital divide, ...

SAN DIEGO —  The county Board of Supervisors will examine whether its policies, programs and practices perpetuate racism under a proposal by Chair Nathan Fletcher and Vice Chair Nora Vargas. The proposal going before the board next Tuesday identifies racism as a health crisis because it is linked to diseases and other physical ailments, the two supervisors said in a remote press conference Tuesday attended by representatives of several health and community groups. “By declaring racism a public health crisis, we are acknowledging the reality that racism underpins the health inequities th...