The people getting COVID-19 vaccines tend to be whiter and more affluent. That’s why the city of LA deploys 10 mobile vaccination teams to some of the hardest-hit neighborhoods. For this site in Watts, volunteers made sure it wouldn’t be cut off by gang territory lines. They also knocked on doors to assuage residents’ vaccination fears.
This mobile vaccination team fights fear and gang lines to protect LA’s most vulnerable
Johanna Rodriguez rallies workers in a morning huddle before the first patients walk into the mobile vaccination site at Watts. Photo by Caleigh Wells.
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