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Duke University Hospital family medicine physician Dr. Viviana Martinez-Bianchi has been working to drive COVID-19 vaccine equity and acknowledges more people need to see more people from underserved communities getting vaccinated.
Dr. Martinez-Bianchi also said the bottom line is there isn t enough vaccine right now but more equality in vaccine demographics is incumbent on healthcare providers building trust. We need to start thinking about what are the reasons people hesitate: Is it that they re hesitant or is it that health systems government public health haven t earned people s trust, asked Dr. Martinez-Bianchi. We also should be thinking about who are those people that are most vulnerable, which are the populations most affected by COVID-19 in our country and this population is the one who should be receiving the vaccine.
NC coronavirus update January 31: Wake County drive-thru test sites for weather as NC hospitalizations remain under 3,000 for first time in month
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NC coronavirus update January 31: NC reports 4,899 new COVID-19 cases as hospitalizations remain under 3K for 2nd day
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RALEIGH (WTVD) At first glance, the COVID-19 testing site at Southeast Raleigh s Sanderford Road Park seems like all the others: the big tents and workers cloaked head-to-toe in PPE. But what makes this test site different is the workers behind those masks and face shields. They re teenagers Raleigh high schoolers, who are also residents here on the city s southeast side that is currently being ravaged by the coronavirus. Every day somebody dies from it and I just want to help the community, said Shanaya, a 9th grader at Broughton High School. She s seen the alarming metrics about the