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The acknowledgement is part of a larger challenge to the pervasiveness of systemic racism, with health care being one of its pillars.
Even with a current shortage of the vaccine in Erie County, Healthcare Education Project Advocate Asim Johnson said the collaboration is determined to have the vaccine distributed through community healthcare organizations first.
“Like Jericho Road,” he said. “The Community Health Network and GBUAHN (Greater Buffalo United Accountable Healthcare Network), because at the end of the day, rather than community members having to go to the Medical Campus or Walgreens or CVS, we feel that it’s important for residents to feel comfortable and be able to have honest conversations with the providers that they have conversations with on a daily basis in their own community.”