El Cajon native named to Biden-Harris COVID-19 Health Equity Task Force
The White House
and last updated 2021-02-10 14:38:22-05
SAN DIEGO (CNS) - President Joe Biden announced Wednesday he has nominated El Cajon native Mayra Alvarez to serve on the Biden-Harris COVID-19 Health Equity Task Force.
Alvarez is one of a dozen people nominated to serve as non-federal members of the task force, which was created to help ensure an equitable response to the pandemic, according to White House officials.
For the past five years, Alvarez has been the president of The Children s Partnership, a nonprofit children s advocacy organization.
Millions of COVID-19 vaccines are sitting unused in U.S. hospitals and elsewhere a week into the massive inoculation campaign, putting the government s target for 20 million vaccinations this month in
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Published: 24 Dec 2020 08:07 AM BdST
Updated: 24 Dec 2020 08:07 AM BdST A vial of the Pfizer vaccine against the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) used at The Reservoir nursing facility is shown in West Hartford, Connecticut, US, December 18, 2020. REUTERS
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As of Wednesday morning, only 1 million shots of the Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine had been given, about one-third of the first shipment sent last week. Over 9.5 million doses of vaccines, including Moderna s, have now been sent to states, according to the US Centres for Disease Control and Prevention.
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