Minnesota making progress in addressing vaccine equity
The state has yet to achieve the feat of partially vaccinating 70% of residents older than 16, recent data show. But since May, Health Department Vaccine Equity Director Dr. Nathan Chomilo said, "the communities that have had, week over week, the largest increases in coverage gains have been our Black and Hispanic Minnesota communities."
Written By: Matthew Guerry
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Nurse Sam Kissi draws a dose of COVID-19 vaccine into a syringe before administering it to Zarea Fonge at a vaccine clinic put on by Black Nurses Rock and Ramsey County at Shiloh Missionary Baptist Church in St. Paul on March 28, 2021. (Evan Frost / MPR News)