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Poor communities of color that don't have many pharmacies within walking distance worry they may be left behind when COVID-19 vaccines roll out to the general public next year

Low-income communities of color are at risk of being left behind when it comes to access to the COVID-19 vaccine once it's available to the general public.

"If they're going to roll out a vaccine and they're going to roll it out to grocery stores and pharmacies, I see a problem," Sykes said. "Is it going to be free? That's one question. And how are they going to get there to get it?"JAMA Internal Medicine "It's going to be a mad scramble particularly if this vaccine is seen as safe and effective," the Rev. Marshall Elijah Hatch Sr. of New Mount Pilgrim Missionary Baptist Church on Chicago's west side told CNN. "It's very difficult to imagine that there's going to be some kind of egalitarian distribution. We are going to have to fight."that large pharmacy chains like CVS, Costco, Walmart, Rite Aid, and Walgreens will distribute the COVID-19 vaccine.

 

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They burned them all down.

Then the pharmacies have to come to the communities or probably not possible, so transportation has to be provided to the pharmacies. We can't wait until next year to get the needle. Seriously, this has been such a rough ride in 2020.

No we not lol

horrible

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