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Covid-19 vaccines: Black and Latino communities are being left behind. Chicago may have an answer.


Over Valentine’s Day weekend, the halls of Steinmetz College Prep were teeming with activity. The high school, located on the Northwest Side of Chicago in Belmont Cragin, a largely Latino neighborhood, was where the city had launched an initiative like few in the country: Here, more than five dozen volunteers many of them members of local community-based organizations, major health networks, and small providers filed into the building each morning to execute an equitable vaccine rollout.
Local organizations had spent weeks planning and reaching out to members to sign up for their first shot. The result looked much like an assembly line snaking through the school. At the entrance, patients were screened to make sure they had a vaccination appointment and promptly given their CDC card and another card with the date for their second shot. They were then ushered to the cafeteria, set up with 18 socially distanced vaccination stations. After receiving the vaccination, they w ....

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Center doubles as vaccination site


Center doubles as vaccination site
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A sign directs healthcare workers into the Gateway Convention Center in Collinsville, which was used as a COVID-19 vaccination center on Thursday. The Madison County Health Department is distributing the vaccine by appointment only to healthcare workers as part of Phase 1A of the state’s vaccine distribution plan.
COLLINSVILLE By the end of Thursday, an estimated 500 healthcare workers were expected to have received their first shot of the Moderna coronavirus vaccine at Collinsville’s Gateway Convention Center.
The center will be used as a vaccine distribution center on Thursdays for at least the next few weeks, according to Madison County Health Department Director Toni Corona. At about noon, she said things were “pretty smooth” on Thursday. ....

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