NEJM June 23, 2021
Jessica Fields, J Raul Gutierrez, MD, MPH, Carina Marquez, MD, MPH, Kim Rhoads, MD, MS, MPH, Margot Kushel, MD, Alicia Fernández, MD, Gabriel Chamie, MD, MPH, Francine Rios-Fetchko, Elizabeth Imbert, MD, MPH, Cynthia Nagendra, JD, et al.

A coalition of Bay Area community organizations, academic institutions, and public health departments collaborated to provide high-risk populations with Covid-19 testing and vaccination, and also took the opportunity to connect them with other essential services.

Summary

Black, Latinx, and other socially and economically marginalized groups have been disproportionately affected by the Covid-19 pandemic. In response, a coalition of community and academic partners, as well as two local departments of public health, formed unique collaborations to successfully design and implement tailored Covid-19 testing and vaccination initiatives in San Francisco Bay Area communities with high transmission rates and at high risk for severe disease. These sustained partnerships have...

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