To Close the COVID-19 Vaccine Race Gap, Utah Turns to Community Organizations
KUER Community organizations are running pop-up, walk-in vaccine clinics aimed at removing barriers that have kept some people from getting their doses. They hope people will feel more comfortable with Spanish-speaking providers at places they are familiar with. On a Saturday afternoon in mid-April, volunteers and community health workers welcomed people into the Second Baptist Church in Ogden. On Sundays, that’s the ushers’ job, but that day the church had been transformed into a pop-up vaccine clinic. It was aimed at people of color, but anyone was welcome. “You don't have to have in...
Source: kuer.org