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The healthcare professionals expressed a general sense of optimism towards the Biden-Harris administration's pandemic response. 

To build trust in the coronavirus vaccine among Black communities, our leaders must acknowledge and dismantle the systemic racism at the root of people's fears.

 for the full episode. The company known as Philly Fighting COVID started out in an almost heartwarming way. It was one of those neighbors helping neighbors stories you’d hear about at the beginning of the pandemic. Andrei Doroshin, the founder of Philly Fighting COVID, and some friends started 3D-printing face shields for hospitals that were short on PPE. A couple of months in, Philly Fighting COVID pivoted to start testing people in underserved areas. Before long, the organization had pivoted again, to vaccine distribution, making elaborate plans to get Philadelphians vaccinated. But Ph...

More than a week after Philadelphia cut ties with a Covid-19 testing and vaccine provider, Health Commissioner Dr. Thomas Farley testified that it was a "mistake" to allow Philly Fighting Covid (PFC) to operate vaccine clinics.

The (im)morality of line-jumping to get COVID-19 vaccines Alfred Lubrano, The Philadelphia Inquirer © ALEJANDRO A. ALVAREZ/The Philadelphia Inquirer/TNS Pat DeHorsey gives COVID-19 vaccinations at Montgomery County Community College on Wednesday morning January 6, 2021. Rich, white New Yorkers flock to a low-income Dominican community and crowd out neighborhood people awaiting COVID-19 vaccinations in a cynical moment of intra-city vaccine tourism. Former Sixers’ basketball great Charles Barkley tells the world that NBA players “deserve some preferential treatment” in...