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Dr. Jacqueline Delmont, Chief Medical Officer at Somos, gives Helen Washington, 76, the first dose of the COVID-19 vaccine at a pop-up vaccination site at St. Luke s Episcopal Church in the Bronx.
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The center of D.C. s first documented outbreak of the coronavirus last spring was a church in Georgetown, in wealthy and majority-white Ward 2. But once the virus started spreading rapidly across the city, its devastating effects fell hardest on Black and Latino residents. Ward 8, which is 92% Black, has seen the highest per-capita death rate from the virus in the District. And citywide, 74% of residents who have died from the coronavirus are Black, even though Black people make up 46% of the city s population. ....

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