El Sol s success in getting Black, Latino and other underrepresented populations vaccinated debunks the idea that these groups won t get the shot, said Juan Carlos Belliard, assistant vice president for community partnerships at Loma Linda University Health in San Bernardino County. Loma Linda is collaborating with El Sol to staff and provide doses for clinics. The people who show up are ready for their vaccine, though some are a bit hesitant, he said. They re not like our middle-class folks who are literally crying for the vaccine, Belliard said. These folks are still nervous about it, but you ve removed almost all of these other barriers for them.
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Getting a lucky break in both the crowd and the rain clouds, Howard Alonzo ducked under a blue tent and into a relatively short line at Jesse Owens Park on Wednesday afternoon. Hours earlier, hundreds of mostly Black and Latino Angelenos had been waiting there, hoping to get their first dose of the COVID-19 vaccine.
“My family members all came like a couple of days ago and got vaccinated,” he said. “Then I got a text message from them.”
Indeed, to find this site the newest in South Los Angeles you pretty much have to know someone who knows someone. Forget about scouring government websites or scoring secret access codes to the state’s joke of an online appointment system, MyTurn. Personal referrals, paper fliers and Google Forms are the go-to tools here.
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Outgoing U.S. President Donald Trump and First Lady Melania Trump board Air Force One at Joint Base Andrews in Maryland on January 20, 2021. (Alex EdelmanAFP via Getty Images)
As Joe Biden and Kamala Harris were placing their hands on bibles, waving to supporters and taking in a Katy Perry-plus-fireworks duet, we spoke with Angelenos about turning the page from the Trump era and their hopes for the new administration. It came to a point to where, every time my phone would vibrate it s almost like conditioning:
Oh Lord, what has Trump done now? said Corey Matthews, Chief Operating Officer of Community Coalition in South L.A.