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Two volunteers at the University of Iowa mobile clinic set up a COVID-19 vaccination station at the Broadway Neighborhood Center in Iowa City.
On a hot evening at the Broadway Neighborhood Center in Iowa City, home to the University of Iowa, student volunteers set up a mobile COVID vaccination clinic among the apartment complexes that house many immigrant and refugee families.
But the clinic struggled to attract residents.
Andrew Coghill-Behrends, the center’s site director, hit the streets.
His goal was to get at least 20 people in for the shot. It s really about talking to people and seeing if you can find them where they re at and encourage them to come over, he said.
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On a recent hot Thursday evening at the Broadway Neighborhood Center in Iowa City, a group of University of Iowa student volunteers set up a mobile COVID-19 vaccination clinic.
The neighborhood is filled with apartment complexes that house many immigrant and refugee families, but the clinic struggles to attract local residents.
Andrew Coghill-Behrends, the site director for the community center, hit the streets. His goal this day was to get at least 20 people in for the shot.
The clinic s staff distributed multilingual flyers, but residents may not have seen them, he said. It s really about talking to people and seeing if you can find them where they re at, and encourage them to come over, he said.