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Clockwise from left, Diana Montoya-Williams, Jose Torradas, Brunilda Cookie Sanchez, Natalia Ortiz, and Melissa Pluguez-Moldavskiy are members of Unidos Contra Covid. (Screenshot via Zoom)
Inspired by the success of the Black Doctors COVID-19 Consortium, a group of Latino physicians and nurses is applying for city funding to provide vaccine access for Philadelphia’s significantly undervaccinated Latino communities.
Dubbing itself Unidos Contra COVID (United Against COVID), the group is among the organizations that has submitted an application in response to the Philadelphia Department of Public Health’s request for proposals for vaccine providers. They applied in early March and are awaiting a response any day. The group said it would aim to get vaccines to both Black and Latino Philadelphians.
CHICAGO (WLS) Organizations in Little Village teamed up to offer the COVID vaccine for community members aged 18 and older this week. The two-day vaccine clinic was held Wednesday and Thursday. I know its been hard on a lot of families. I know personally its touched mine so it s nice to have this center here where we can get vaccinated, said Brian Rodriguez, Little Village resident.
Rodriguez and his mother Lucinda Rodriguez both got their first COVID-19 vaccines at Enlace Chicago, a non-profit. Rodriguez said his family has felt the pain of a COVID-19 death, losing a close family member to the virus. He said his family, who are all essential workers, are relieved to be getting vaccinated.
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Officials have announced the creation of the Bloomberg Center for Cities at Harvard University, which aims in the simplest terms to strengthen local government performance the world over.
At this week’s Bloomberg CityLab event perhaps the world’s preeminent annual gathering of local government experts and officials former New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg announced that Bloomberg Philanthropies is making a $150 million investment in the project. A subsequent press release about the center noted that the goal is to essentially work with Harvard to build upon the trajectory of the Bloomberg Harvard Ci
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Dr. Nahiris Bahamon says she gets many questions on the COVID-19 vaccine from patients who primarily speak Spanish, and she laments the scarcity of reliable information for people in that community.
“There’s not a big effort to educate our communities that speak Spanish as a primary language, especially on complex information like science and medical information in a vaccine,” said Bahamon, a pediatrician at Esperanza Health Center in Little Village.
Esperanza Health Centers is a community clinic that serves Chicago’s Latino and mostly Mexican neighborhoods on the Southwest Side, with clinics in Little Village, Gage Park, Marquette Park and Brighton Park.
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