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Are vulnerable communities left behind in Orange County’s massive coronavirus vaccination efforts?

Voice of OC, Jan. 20, 2021

January 20, 2021

Are vulnerable communities left behind in Orange County’s massive coronavirus vaccination efforts?

“I’m really worried about the very groups that have the highest rates of positivity for COVID — the essential workers, the elderly. Do we have a really targeted approach for those vulnerable populations? That’s critical. That’s needed and we should be doing that now while we’re waiting for this vaccine,” said Bernadette Boden-Albala, dean of Public Health at UC Irvine. … “We have to do a multi-pronged approach to vaccinate everybody in our county,” she said.