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This past Thursday, I volunteered to work at the State Farm Stadium COVID-19 vaccination center in Glendale, Arizona. I signed up, knowing that if I completed an 8-hour volunteer shift, I’d receive the first dose of the Pfizer vaccine at the end of my shift....
The operation requires 400 volunteers per day. My volunteer duty was to help people schedule their second dose after they had just received their first dose. It was an extremely rewarding volunteer experience. But after helping hundreds of cars...
I noticed that 95% of the people I helped were white. We need to do a better job of helping people of color get access to vaccination sites that DON’T require computer and internet access to schedule an appointment that DON’T require a car to get the vaccine...
, and that DON’T require that people travel far distances outside of their immediate community. Our representatives need to find a way to EQUITABLY distribute this vaccine. It’s still early - we can still pivot to make sure people of color don’t get left behind, once again.
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