Philly gave a 22-year-old white graduate student in psychology, with a startup and no healthcare experience, thousands of vaccines to distribute. It ended up being a mess. He took doses home to vaccinate his girlfriend, while cancelling vaccine appointments for the public. https://twitter.com/npr/status/1355457266414215168

Health commissioner Tom Farley has been asked to explain what happened. Doroshin approached with a vaccine plan, he says, that met the city's health standards.

"I hope people can understand why on the surface this looked like a good thing," Farley says. "In retrospect, we should have been more careful with this organization."

Only 12 percent of vaccinated Philadelphians are Black — in a city where 44% of residents are Black.

Philly should have given more vaccines to trusted, community-based organizations, like the Black Doctors Covid19 Consortium led by Dr. @alastanford who have already been on the ground doing this important work. https://twitter.com/alastanford/status/1353310425832714240

TY to those who shared the piece below to give more context on how whiteness & racism play into the current debacle by Rasheed Ajamu in @WearYourVoice, especially to those who have asked why I felt it necessary to include that the 22-year-old was white. https://wearyourvoicemag.com/the-pfc-scandal-how-whiteness-put-an-entire-city-at-risk/?fbclid=IwAR20Nfm0wRfCOA6XylUeyoGxq4dsq6N0VVQAus8qzTA0L8g8C6xlbAUScQg