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For Lance Curtis, the journey to receive the COVID-19 vaccine began with a phone call from Los Angeles Christian Health Centers.
Doctors and nurses had culled a list of nearly 900 homeless people they wanted to vaccinate. Their outreach workers walked the streets of skid row preaching the gospel of Moderna’s two-shot salvation.
And they sought out people in the community’s large shelters to make sure they got pricked.
The goal was to offer a lifeline to one of Los Angeles’ most vulnerable and hard-to-reach populations. But the effort to vaccinate the homeless population and the skid row community, which is just getting underway, is fraught with obstacles.
Virtual parties, protests, and empty streets make up New Year s Eve in San Francisco
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One included a bootlegging hotsy-totsy virtual party broadcast from a fancy basement theater in North Beach. We re completely virtual tonight, said Nick Olivero of The Speakeasy in San Francisco. Meaning the magician who does card tricks is streaming, the dancer is streaming, all the rest are streaming. We ve got bands, and magicians, drag queens and fortune tellers, says Olivero whose theater partnered with Truffle Shuffle SF.
But hit the streets of San Francisco and it s a different story. Slow and not a lot of people, said Kevin Hernandez of Sacramento.