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Community health centers are key to solving striking vaccine inequities


Community health centers are key to solving striking vaccine inequities
Feb. 26, 2021 at 6:00 am
Three months into the vaccine rollout people of color are receiving doses at a startlingly low rate and community health centers believe this is in large part because their clinics were deprioritized as distributors.
The Department of Public Health recognizes this too and is rushing to expand partnerships with community health centers and pharmacies in the hardest hit areas of the County.
Still, it will take concerted effort and time to bridge the existing gaps.
So far only 5.2 percent of black individuals and 23 percent of Latinx individuals eligible for the vaccine have received doses compared to 33 percent of their white counterparts, reported County Supervisor Hilda Solis on Monday. ....

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California left clinics off vaccine list, so low-income patients are underserved


Shae Hammond for CalMatters
Last fall, St. John’s Well Child and Family Center began purchasing sub-zero freezers to store the COVID-19 vaccine. By Nov. 20, St. John’s had eight freezers, with three more on the way. 
The clinic’s CEO, Jim Mangia, reached out to Los Angeles County health officials to let them know they were ready to distribute the vaccine. “St. John’s stands ready as a resource to immunize thousands of people a week,” he wrote. 
But California’s community health clinics had not been invited by the state to enroll as vaccine providers yet, even though the first doses were expected to arrive in Los Angeles in less than a month.  ....

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