How UChicago s vaccine rollout put equity first • AbbVie could sell off women s drug portfolio • Chicago vaccinating the homeless
March 17, 2021 05:15 AM
How UChicago s vaccine rollout put equity first • AbbVie could sell off women s drug portfolio • Chicago vaccinating the homeless
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Curbside COVID-19 testing at the University of Chicago Medicine campus.
HOW UCHICAGO S VACCINE ROLLOUT PUT EQUITY FIRST: The rollout of COVID-19 vaccines across the country was fraught with potential ethical quandaries and concerns over how, and if, health providers would reach the neighborhoods most at risk mainly Black and Latino communities still haven’t subsided.
Last April, Dr Clarence Kelley Sr, 64, a pastor in Chicago’s West Side, contracted Covid-19. The disease nearly claimed his life, forcing him into the hospital for almost two weeks and on a breathing machine. “I was afraid that I would never ever see my wife again … it was devastating to me. I would not wish this on anyone,” Kelley told the Guardian. Now, out on the other side of this near-death experience, Kelley wants the Covid-19 vaccine. And.