Arizona s top public health official and community leaders talked with southwest Phoenix residents in an over-the-phone town hall on Wednesday, answering their questions and encouraging them to get vaccinated.
More than 2.7 million Arizonans have received at least one dose of a COVID-19 vaccine, but some communities disproportionately hit by the virus lag in vaccination rates.
“Providing COVID-19 vaccination to every Arizonan regardless of where people live, their color of skin or any other factor is our top priority,” said Dr. Cara Christ, who heads the Arizona Department of Health Services.
Christ said the department was holding intensive community outreach efforts in communities across the state.
Faith leaders across US join in decrying voting restrictions
DAVID CRARY, JONATHAN J. COOPER and EMILY LESHNER, Associated Press
April 18, 2021
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1of5FILE - In this Tuesday, Nov. 3, 2020 file photo, Voters line up outside Vickery Baptist Church waiting to cast their ballots on Election Day in Dallas. In Georgia, faith leaders are asking corporate executives to condemn laws restricting voting access or face a boycott. In Arizona and Texas, clergy have assembled outside the state capitols to decry what they view as voter-suppression measures targeting Black and Hispanic people.LM Otero/APShow MoreShow Less
2of5FILE - In this Monday, March 29, 2021 file photo, Georgia State Rep. Park Cannon, D-Atlanta,, center, walks beside Martin Luther King, III, as she returns to the State Capitol in Atlanta. Georgia, faith leaders are asking corporate executives to condemn laws restricting voting access or face a boycott. In Arizona and Texas, clergy have
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In Georgia, faith leaders are asking corporate executives to condemn laws restricting voting access or face a boycott. In Arizona and Texas, clergy have assembled outside the state capitols to decry what they view as voter-suppression measures targeting Black and Hispanic people.
Similar initiatives have been undertaken in Florida, Michigan, Missouri, Ohio and elsewhere as many faith leaders perceive a threat to voting rights that warrants their intervention in a volatile political issue.
“It is very much in a part of our tradition, as Christians, to be engaged in the public square,” said the Rev. Dr. Eric Ledermann, pastor at University Presbyterian Church in Tempe, Arizona, after the event outside the Statehouse.
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