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It’s the “Hunger Games”-like situation in Los Angeles' vaccine rollout that galls Dr. Jerry P. Abraham, an epidemiologist who has spent much of his career advocating for equity in healthcare, columnist @Erika_D_Smith writes. https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2021-01-29/coronavirus-covid-vaccine-equity-hospital-south-los-angeles-kedren-health
Abraham and his team at Kedren Health aren’t waiting for top-down fixes from politicians. In a matter of weeks, they have pioneered a number of workarounds to ensure that the people in South L.A. who need the vaccine most — healthcare workers and those over age 65 — can get it.
Kedren Health is determined to help residents from South L.A., who often don’t have internet access, a computer or even a smartphone. Volunteers with paper forms are on hand to collect people’s information when they arrive and enter it into the county’s online database later.
What about the need to have a vehicle, essential for getting vaccinated at drive-through sites?
Forget about that, too. Kedren Health is one of only a handful of county-affiliated vaccination sites where people can arrive on foot instead of in a car. https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2021-01-29/coronavirus-covid-vaccine-equity-hospital-south-los-angeles-kedren-health
Forget about that, too. Kedren Health is one of only a handful of county-affiliated vaccination sites where people can arrive on foot instead of in a car. https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2021-01-29/coronavirus-covid-vaccine-equity-hospital-south-los-angeles-kedren-health
Interpreters for almost every language spoken in South L.A. are on site. And immigration status doesn’t matter. Homeless people are also welcome.
“They deserve a vaccine just as much as everybody else,” he said. “If they come here, they will leave with the vaccine in the arm."
“They deserve a vaccine just as much as everybody else,” he said. “If they come here, they will leave with the vaccine in the arm."
In some ways, Abraham’s motivation comes back to the under-65 crowd of vaccine chasers whom he scowls at on the sidewalk every day. Missing the mark on vaccine equity means having to summon one of them from a beach chair.
https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2021-01-29/coronavirus-covid-vaccine-equity-hospital-south-los-angeles-kedren-health
https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2021-01-29/coronavirus-covid-vaccine-equity-hospital-south-los-angeles-kedren-health
