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.)
Roughly 3 in 10 people in wealthier downtown areas have already received their first dose. A few miles away, in a predominantly Black pocket of Southwest Philly, the rate plummets to only about 3 out of 50 residents — the lowest ratio among the city’s ZIP codes, as of this week. | From: Billy Penn (Read more.)
As vaccines started flowing, immigrant-led community organizations and even individual people started acting as connectors between people isolated by language or lack of computer access, and the life-saving shots. | From: WHYY (Read more.)
Puentes de Salud cuenta con un suministro de entre 100 a 200 vacunas semanalmente en sus clínicas de vacunación. | From: NBC10/Telemundo62 (Read more.)
Rev. Cortés spoke up at a city news conference on the vaccine Friday, calling for a federally run vaccination site in the city’s Spanish-speaking neighborhoods that could cater to the communities there. | From: NBC10/Telemundo62 (Read more.)
Poco a poco se está abriendo el acceso a las vacunas en toda la ciudad pero puede ser mucha información para procesar.
An immigrant advocacy group and Jefferson University Hospitals are prepared to start providing doses in a community without easy vaccine access, but are waiting for city approval. | From: The Inquirer (Read more.)
Finding a vaccine appointment now is tough for many people, but especially so for immigrants with limited English. For undocumented immigrants, the situation is even more dire. | From: The Inquirer (Read more.)
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