MedCity News December 28, 2020
Anuja Vaidya

Rideshare app Lyft is partnering with corporations and healthcare organizations to create an initiative that will help connect members of underserved communities to vaccination sites once the Covid-19 vaccine becomes widely available.

Anthem and Epic, along with several other organizations, have partnered with Lyft on a campaign that aims to expand access to the Covid-19 vaccine.

Two vaccines have so far been approved in the United States — one manufactured by Pfizer and BioNTech, and another by Moderna. Though distribution of the vaccines has begun, neither is widely available yet. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has recommended that initially the vaccine only be offered to healthcare personnel and residents of long-term care facilities.

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