The workaround highlights how the city’s reliance on the pre-approved appointments helped widen the racial divide. A Billy Penn analysis of information in the Philly vaccine interest database found major geographic disparities among the 331,000 residents who signed up. | From: Billy Penn (Read more.)
Will knowing the rates workers are paid affect where you shop? Here’s where some of the other grocery chains stand. | From: Billy Penn (Read more.)
The Save Philly Restaurants Coalition, a group representing owners of 300 restaurants, worked with the pharmacy to hand out the doses to workers in one of the industries that has felt the biggest financial shocks (Read more.)
The switch from invite-only is intended to close the gap in vaccination rate, which varies widely across the city.
People who own one or two units make up 73% of all licensed city landlords yet they control less than a quarter of the rental supply, according to a recent report from The Pew Charitable (Read more.)
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While Black Philadelphians are underrepresented among those already vaccinated in Philadelphia, Latinos are being vaccinated at an even slower rate: Latinos make up 15% of Philadelphians, but less than 6% of those already vaccinated.
La concejal representa los códigos postales con algunas de las tasas de vacunación más bajas de la ciudad. | From: AL DÍA (Read more.)
Those that aren’t showing up to their appointments tend to be from communities of color and people who have been long-underserved by health care. | From: AL DÍA (Read more.)
Of the $350 billion for local governments, Pennsylvania stands to receive $13 billion, of which Philly could get around $2 billion. | From: Billy Penn (Read more.)
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