Mass COVID-19 Vaccination Site Opens in Oakland for Black, Latino Communities
Published Date: 3/14/2021
Source: San Francisco Chronicle
A West Oakland church hosted a clinic intended to vaccinate Black and Latino communities. But the majority of vaccines went to white people after hundreds of people waited, some overnight, for a chance to be vaccinated at the first-come, first-serve clinic, its organizer said. Of the 2,306 doses administered throughout the week-long clinic, Wallace estimates that about 60% went to white people, with the remaining 40% going to the demographic the clinic was intended to serve: Black, Latino and Pacific Islander people. While the clinic was aimed at the communities of color surrounding the West Oakland church, Wallace said it was “hard to say” how many of those vaccinated were local. #CoronavirusPandemic #Vaccine #Oakland Credit: Manjula Varghese Read more: http://bit.ly/30HkCTv Subscribe to our channel: http://bit.ly/2Svdkii — The San Francisco Chronicle delivers the Bay Area’s best journalism every day. Our mission is to tell the story of San Francisco — the city whose people change the world. We will inform, inspire and provoke while being honest, fearless and startlingly original. You can support our newsroom by signing up for a membership at http://SFChronicle.com/subscribe.