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Inequity in vaccinations isn't always about hesitancy, it's about access

  • 1.  Inequity in vaccinations isn't always about hesitancy, it's about access

    Posted 04-13-2021 02:27:00 PM

    Black and Hispanic people who want COVID-19 vaccines are struggling to get appointments. That's why we must bring the vaccines to them.
    Read more via AAMCNews in this newly published Insights piece by Richard Lu, MBA, Suhas Gondi, and Alister Martin, MD, MPP (Richard Lu, MBA, and Suhas Gondi are medical students at Harvard Medical School. Alister Martin, MD, MPP, is an emergency medicine physician at Massachusetts General Hospital).

    A volunteer for GOTVax, an organization focused on bringing vaccines to hard-hit communities, administers a vaccine to a resident of a Boston Housing Authority building in an under-resourced neighborhood.

    A volunteer for GOTVax, an organization focused on bringing vaccines to hard-hit communities, administers a vaccine to a resident of a Boston Housing Authority building in an under-resourced neighborhood. Courtesy: Alister Martin, MD, MPP 


    Alister Martin, MD, MPP, poses for a group photo with GOTVax volunteers as they work to bring vaccines to under-resourced neighborhoods in Boston.

    Alister Martin, MD, MPP, poses for a group photo with GOTVax volunteers as they work to bring vaccines to under-resourced neighborhoods in Boston. Courtesy: Alister Martin, MD, MPP



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    Stephanie Weiner
    Director, Digital Strategy & Engagement
    Association of American Medical Colleges
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