State Roundup: Hogan announces vaccine equity plan with community partnerships
The Maryland Coalition for Justice and Police Accountability and other groups demonstrated Thursday outside the State House, supporting stronger police reforms than passed by the State Senate Wednesday. From its Facebook video.
HOGAN ANNOUNCES EQUITY PLAN, BALTIMORE CITY MAYOR DEFENDS CITY EFFORTS: Gov. Larry Hogan said Thursday that the state has launched a concerted first in the nation “equity operations plan” aimed at increasing access to coronavirus vaccines in Maryland’s most vulnerable communities, Bryan Renbaum reports for Maryland Reporter.
The plan, which largely relies on churches and community groups requesting clinics in their neighborhoods, is intended to be a way to improve the pace of getting coronavirus vaccine shots into the arms of Marylanders who are not white, Pamela Wood and Hallie Miller report for the Sun.
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