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As Vaccine Rates in Black Community Stall, County and Faith Leaders Team Up Published: 27 July 2021 As the state reopens, public health officials and Black leaders are ramping up efforts to remind the BIPOC community that the pandemic is far from over, especially for them. Interim Health Department Director at Multnomah County Ebony Clarke “In Oregon, only 74% of all adults over the age of 18 have received one dose of the vaccine,” Multnomah County Interim Health Department Director Ebony Clarke told The Skanner. “When you break that down to the Black and indigenous communities, less than 50% of adults have received one dose of the vaccine.

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