Beating the Pavement to Vaccinate
the Underrepresented — And Protect Everyone
The U.S. needs to get the vaccination rate to about 75% to keep the virus from easily spreading — a level called herd immunity by experts on infectious diseases. But even that figure assumes the population is homogenous in terms of vaccination. That’s why the California's ability to stave off another covid surge may rely on community health workers and organizers doing time-intensive, laborious work to prevent pockets of the population with low vaccination rates in remote or isolated communities from becoming a tinderbox for a new covid surge. (KHN, Black Voice News)
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