team have already immunized more than half of the village concerned about high death rates the health center received the vaccine from the u.s. government and the indigenous health insurance fund now there of vaccine doses in abundance. it's amazing we have a couple 100 doses we've pretty much finished after the charter tomorrow we will be finished with the villages and then we just have to finish for u. conn go and we didn't think we would be able to do this tell the summer you know get everybody then. deborah takes us to her home a small wooden house on the outskirts of town people here are content living without much. deborah has already seen much of the world the daughter of a white father and an indigenous mother she lived in germany for several years when her father served in the army for yukon has always been her home when the 1st covert cases broke out it was easy for deborah to shield herself from the rest of the world because she lives alone with her son but for most families quarantining is almost impossible because they live in small homes and the virus spreads rapidly it was pre

team have already immunized more than half of the village concerned about high death rates the health center received the vaccine from the u.s. government and the indigenous health insurance fund now there are vaccine doses in abundance. it's amazing we have a couple 100 doses we've pretty much finished after the charter tomorrow we will be finished with the villages and then we just have to finish for u. conn show and we didn't think we would be able to do this tell the summer you know get everybody then. deborah takes us to her home a small wooden house on the outskirts of town people here are content living without much. deborah has already seen much of the world the daughter of a white father and an indigenous mother she lived in germany for several years when her father served in the army before you can has always been her home when the 1st cold cases broke out it was easy for deborah to shield herself from the rest of the world because she lives alone with her son but for most families quarantining is almost impossible because they live in small homes and the virus spreads rapidly. it

say that in the american rescue plans, some of us work very hard to double fund for community health centers in trouble funding for the national health services. and i think that we have to continue that effort. so that says to somebody, if you going to be graduating medical school, 300,000 is not going to go to rural maine frankly and we are going to help you pay off the debt you to go to rural anyplace. so that is some of my thoughts on look forward to the series of discussions. >> this or chairman, thank you so much for holding this very important hearing today. our country is tremendously grateful to the medical community for its efforts during this past year. many healthcare professionals physical emotional close of caring for covid-19 patients. leopard and i thank you so important to know did not fall solely on the medical people themselves. but also, many members of the families who had to cope with separation, long hours, health risk and stress from closed schools. in many areas of the country, there's the fierce competition for nurses, nursing assistants, other medical professionals

say, in the american rescue plan, some of usçó workedçó ver hard double funding for community health centersational health service school. and i think we have to continue that effort. so, that says to somebody, if you're goingxd to be graduating medical school, $300,000 in debt, you're not going to rural maine, frankly. and we're goingñr to help you p off that debt if you do go to rural maine or rural vermont or rural anyplace. so, that's some of my thoughts. i look forward to this serious discussion. senator collins?w30hd >> mr. chairman,ñrñr thank you much for holding this very important hearing today. our country is tremendouslyxd grateful to the medical community for its colossal efforts during the pastÑi year. many health care professionals are exhausted by the physical and emotional toll of caring for covid patients. and that burden, i think it's important to note,lñ0 solely on the medical worky themselves, but also on many members of their families who have had to cope with separation, long hours, health risks and stress from closed schools. in many areas of thefá country, there is a

team have already immunized more than half of the village concerned about high death rates the health center received the vaccine from the u.s. government and the indigenous health insurance fund now there are vaccine doses in abundance. it's amazing we have a couple 100 doses we've pretty much finished after the charter tomorrow we will be finished with the villages and then we just have to finish for u. conn go and we didn't think we would be able to do this tell the summer you know get everybody then. deborah takes us to her home a small wooden house on the outskirts of town people here are content living without much. deborah has already seen much of the world the daughter of a white father and an indigenous mother she lived in germany for several years when her father served in the army before you can has always been her home when the 1st cold cases broke out it was easy for deborah to shield herself from the rest of the world because she lives alone with her son but for most families quarantining is almost impossible because they live in small homes and the virus spreads rapidly. it wa

the december omnibus appropriations contained a three-year authorization of teaching health center graduatesedical education programs, program that i championed with senator chester, teaching health kanner -- health centers to train medical residents in community-based settings, including low income, underserved rural and urban neighborhoods. why does this matter? it matters because we know that people are much more likely to stay where they train. and if we can get people out to underserved areas to do their residencies, they are much more likely to practice their. i know that i could go on and on. let me just end by saying that i think telehealth is another avenue to address the mismatch in supply and demand, particularly in behavioral health. the determination and compassion that leads students to choose a career in health care are needed now more than ever. i very much appreciate this hearing and i look forward to hearing from our excellent witnesses. thank you, mr. chairman. sen. sanders: thank you, senator collins. this does appear to be an area where there may be a bipartisan approach

concerned about high death rates the health center received the vaccine from the us government and the indigenous health insurance fund now there of vaccine doses in abundance. it's amazing we have a couple 100 doses we've pretty much finished after the charter tomorrow we will be finished with the villages and then we just have to finish for u. conn so and we didn't think we would be able to do this tell the summer you know get everybody then. deborah takes us to her home a small wooden house on the outskirts of town people here a contempt living without much. deborah has already seen much of the world the daughter of a white father and an indigenous mother she lived in germany for several years when her father served in the army before you can has always been her home when the 1st cold cases broke out it was easy for deborah to shield herself from the rest of the world because she lives alone with her son but for most families quarantining is almost impossible because they live in small homes and the virus spreads rapidly it was pretty scary for everybody it was kind of. a really big

team have already immunized more than half of the village concerned about high death rates the health center received the vaccine from the u.s. government and the indigenous health insurance fund now there of vaccine doses in abundance. it's amazing we have a couple 100 doses we've pretty much finished after the charter tomorrow we will be finished with the villages and then we just have to finish for u. conn show and we didn't think we would be able to do this tell the summer you know get everybody then. deborah takes us to her home a small wooden house on the outskirts of town people here are content living without much. deborah has already seen much of the world the daughter of a white father and an indigenous mother she lived in germany for several years when her father served in the army before you call him has always been her home when the 1st covert cases broke out it was easy for deborah to shield herself from the rest of the world because she lives alone with her son but for most families quarantining is almost impossible because they live in small homes and the virus spreads rapidl

team have already immunized more than half of the village concerned about high death rates the health center received the vaccine from the u.s. government and the indigenous health insurance fund now there are vaccine doses in abundance. it's amazing we have a couple 100 doses we've pretty much finished after the charter tomorrow we will be finished with the villages and then we just have to finish for u. conn go and we didn't think we would be able to do this tell the summer you know get everybody then. deborah takes us to her home a small wooden house on the outskirts of town people here are content living without much. deborah has already seen much of the world the daughter of a white father and an indigenous mother she lived in germany for several years when her father served in the army before you call him has always been her home when the 1st covert cases broke out it was easy for deborah to shield herself from the rest of the world because she lives alone with her son but for most families quarantining is almost impossible because they live in small homes and the virus spreads rapidly

a dead as health care center has been targeted and evacuated and in such conditions where we are talking about where i was very early talking about the health care crisis in gaza said how the health care is already fried gyal it suffering from lots of crisis targeting now what health care centers or clinics this i think is says this is a very alarming situation that not only media offices are being targeted now where civilians but we are getting to the point where he's rail is deliberately targeting the health said. * with me here i have all the dr hot bob but he is from that and that means she has health and he is going to talk to us about the need to see developments in that the health. and the health center now you know we've been living under siege for 15 years and could only put one and half a year and today this regulation income is coming to complicate the situation much more than before in fact that you hear those explosions now they are targeting civilians and domestic as you know guys as highly dense it population we are too many implication living in 360 kilometers of

so setting up direct allocations to our community's health centers, including to rural health clinicsto local, independent chain pharmacies, and of course to the community vaccination centers. and as so many of you referenced already, supporting local capacity. that is key to meeting people exactly where they are. so i want to share with you some of the demographic data. we have high quality demographic data that lift up and echo the need for data to drive our response. in the federal vaccination channels, what we see is encouraging. about 70% of vaccinations at community health centers have been administered to people of color. and that number is 60% for community vaccination centers and those are all, all of them, located in hard-hit communities. over 40% of the pharmacies in the federal retail pharmacy program are located in high-risk areas. and if we look in the last two weeks, over 46% of those pharmacy doses have been administered to people of color. so of course there is sleight absolutely more work to do -- absolutely more work to do. equity work, reaching to communities, that

step in fighting the covid-19 pandemic. >> so this is a significant achievement by community health centersdoctor rachel levine with the department of health and human services says community health centers across the country have now administered more than 10 million covid-19 vaccine doses 60%. >> of the individuals vaccinated by the community health centers or individuals of color. >> levine says this is one sign that efforts are each racial and ethnic minorities are working vaccine. equity has been an ongoing concern since the shots became available, the department of health and human services has set up a task force to address health equity and to combat vaccine hesitancy is we have to reach out to communities such as the african-american latinx community and west virginia republican senator shelley moore capital says that outreach needs include conservative republicans that are suspicious of the vaccine capital says even they will eventually agree to get vaccinated simply because. >> time has gone on the back. the side effects are or have been fully vetted and also younger people can g

there aren't any doctors in forth you call but there is deborah mccarthy the health centers director she's responsible for the area's 500 residents who have to forgo a lot snow slopes instead of ask fold roads no pumps no restaurants no fast internet this is what normality looks like 8 miles north of the arctic circle. i think for most people actually live here is pretty full. on i mean people work hard you know everybody has to get where they everybody has the ghost hunting everybody does most people have gardening it's a close knit small community i mean it's like we were really to tell most everybody it's of course now like that where you know if you're going to live if you went someplace else or in a city or even just a bigger town that is excessive all by road you know where we're sort of on an island here and everybody is very close. this is one reason why the virus has claimed 4 times as many indigenous lives in alaska compere to urban whites. deborah has a lot on her mind when she goes to the health center every morning namely how to protect people here from the virus as quic

when you have big hospital systems that can be supportive and community health centers, in conjunctionnd a community center or senior center, you've basically got trusted voices and that particular neighborhood working together, delivering the same message. this is a good idea and something that should be willing to do. we track our data as well and we have successfully vaccinated so far our unity, black community, right up there with other communities as well. we still have work to do but we have made a lot of progress. i would say i think transportation issues are a big deal and including to make a big difference, we have special programs in with our local board to help. they are identifying the population but can't get to a site no matter how close it might be and making sure we go out and meet them where they are and get vaccinated the same way everybody else does. the other thing i would say for all of us, one of our great opportunities and challenges, whether it's equity or confidence, as more people see this happening, their friends and families and coworkers, the more likely th

deborah has a lot on her mind when she goes to the health center every morning namely how to protect people here from the virus as quickly as possible it's been a few weeks since vaccinations opened up to everyone over the age of 16 much earlier than in most other states same day appointments are available without waiting i'm sure. so your arm might be a little bit sore. some people have more soreness than others so easy to tell people pick the arm that you don't. really need to use today is ok deborah and her team have already immunized more than half of the village concerned about high death rates the health center received the vaccine from the u.s. government and the indigenous health insurance fund now there of vaccine doses in abundance. it's amazing we have a couple 100 doses we've pretty much finished after the charter tomorrow we will be finished with the villages and then we just have to finish for u. conn. and we didn't think we would be able to do this tell the summer you know get everybody then. deborah takes us to her home a small wooden house on the outskirts of town pe

when the development is community, bridge will assign its lease to mission neighborhood health center, and mission neighborhood health care will lease the site for $5 million annually. a walkway allows residents direct access to allemany, to mission, cutting the distance in half. the project affordability ranges from extremely low-income at 30% a.m.i. to moderate income at 1:08 a.m.i. to achieve a mixed income project that addresses the span of the affordable housing needs in the neighborhood. the extremely low-income units, the 30% a.m.i. are achieved by cross subsidizing the income generated by the moderate income units. those above 95% a.m.i. income levels not only help with the extremely low units that don't have rental subsidy, and it also helps with providing the missing middle, of which we are losing in the city, and so the missing middle units will be affordable to teachers, nonprofit workers, other middle-income families that are getting squeezed out of the city. there are 35 voucher units targeted for hope s.f. families relocating from potrero and potrero annex. a community

states have done a large scale vaccination sites as well as getting it to smaller sites community health centers and retail pharmacies so really getting more supply more steady supply and getting the vaccine out some more availability sites that's been the key at the same time though since the middle of april the number of daily back to nations has been going down to more or less $3000000.00 per day why is that. so we have kind of picked up point where a lot of people who want to be vaccinated have then vaccinated you know 50 percent of people have gotten at least one dose just about and so you know we're really getting to the point now where we need to work harder to get people to assure people to get information to people and we're still there actually eating about 2000000 people per day so that's really good we have about 10 states that have vaccinated over 50 percent of their population but about 10 states for only about 35 percent of been vaccinated and that's really the difference by region of you know people with regard to their skepticism or you know they're cautious about getting the va

i also on another note with regard to our new health resource center located at 1064 mission street as part of our whole person integrated care work. we are planning to honor a former member of the health department who died on july 15th. maria martinez. a mentor to us and many including myself we were very saddened by her passing and her contributions and is important to the community we're delighted to name the health resource center in honor of maria and multiple people in the health department and other entities wrapping services around clients who need these services most is very much in keeping with maria's priorities and approaches to the work and so we're just so we will keep you updated on how that continues to proceed. back to covid for a minute, we now have people 12 and up who are now eligible for the pfizer covid-19 vaccine. so we are rolling out efforts to and in the director's report, you will see many options for people to receive the vaccine whether they're 12, whether they're 120, we're making vaccines available to whoever is eligible for a vaccine. and, again in my f

i also on another note with regard to our new health resource center located at 1064 mission street as part of our whole person integrated care work. we are planning to honor a former member of the health department who died on july 15th. maria martinez. a mentor to us and many including myself we were very saddened by her passing and her contributions and is important to the community we're delighted to name the health resource center in honor of maria and multiple people in the health department and other entities wrapping services around clients who need these services most is very much in keeping with maria's priorities and approaches to the work and so we're just so we will keep you updated on how that continues to proceed. back to covid for a minute, we now have people 12 and up who are now eligible for the pfizer covid-19 vaccine. so we are rolling out efforts to and in the director's report, you will see many options for people to receive the vaccine whether they're 12, whether they're 120, we're making vaccines available to whoever is eligible for a vaccine. and, again in my f

during this pandemic meanie school-based health centers have been juicing telehealth to reach students and provide health care services they need. however, it's incredibly important that they are able to stay open especially as children come back to school and may require a variety of social, medical, mental health services. can you speak to the investments that would be made in school-based health centers or similar programs in the 2022 hhs budget? and what additional investment would you recommend to ensure that children receive the health and mental health services they need following the coronavirus pandemic? let me add, look forward to working with you to expand the interactive school-based health centers and be as creative and innovative as we can possibly be here thank you. >> congressman, as usual we are on the same page on the subject and i will tell you that hhs will do everything it can to make these school-based health centers successful. as you know we don't dictate to the locals how they do things, but we do help them. we assist with resources. we provide guidance. i will

this is the rural health center she was first taken to, the only one for villages around.they didn't discover she had covid until she became severely ill. there were noesources to treat her. >> i asked each person in this queue up what they are suffering from, most told me it is a fever or a cough, and they're waiting in line at a primary health center, the first place that someone from a village would come to. there waiting here for the doctor who was inside to tell them what is wrong with them. reporter: most of these people have not had the vaccine. we drove miles to reach this village. even getting to basic health care is out of reach for most here. her husband says their whole family had covid symptoms. she was the mother of two children. people here are angry. the prime minister makes announcements on television, but nothing reaches us, a neighbor says. there's little we can do. those who are lucky will survive. whoever has to die, will day. -- will die. >> i have been speaking about the situation on the ground with a correspondent. is coronavirus much more widesprea

also those israeli attacks flattened hundreds of buildings. hospitals health centers including garza's, only coven, 19 lab, have also come under attack. united nations is urging israel to allow humanitarian aid in but so far trucks towering vital supplies have been stranded. over the past few hours, more israeli cities have come under fire from how much rocket some of them landed in ashad, causing some damage. there. 12 people in israel have been killed in attacks by groups and gaza since the conflict began last week. rockets were also fired from southern lebanon near the city of tiers, who as northern israel, syrians went off in lower galilee and cray off, when people were seen scrambling for cover in haifa. there's ready, security forces says if hitting a number of targets and 11 on with artillery shells been hauled, it has the latest from southern beverage. this is the 3rd incident of its kind in the past week where rockets are fired, launched from south lebanon toward israel. most of them landed and open spaces or in the sea, and there have been no casualties and no damage. but tod

we have kept our primary health centers open when we could. today there's 15 of them.ve done garbage collection and now in all of the 58 schools. >> i want to let the viewers know that nbc news confirmed that the israeli security cabinet declared a cease fire in the gaza strip and we hope that will alleviate the suffering you are going through there. as we now move away from this phase consuming the international diplomatic efforts, what are you going to need in the weeks ahead to rebuild what you just lived through? >> i think there are three things i'd like to say. we have to get our normal services up and running. the children need a sense of normality. we have to focus on the people that lost their home just bombed to the ground and so badly damaged they can't go back. i'm told at least 8,000 in that situation. so they need priority support and then look at what to do to help them rebuild houses and thirdly i think the biggest damage is trauma. this is another layer of trauma after the two years of great marches returned why the covid year and now this. before that

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i don't that block and when i was it in that 90 health center it was shut there was nobody so there is absolutely at the ground level there are no health workers those who are on duty they are also covered was a 2 so there are no health workers there is no one held accountable and there since i am travelling to the villages they don't have access to credit either so there is no s.o.s. calls from the google site and they they only know of the district hospitals which are right now flow there is no bed there's no oxygen there is absolutely a kiosk at the ground right now people arriving in a stream here from india could face up to 5 years in prison or pay heavy fines new measures use a covert 19 target to strain citizens and residents who have been in india in the past 14 days restrictions kinds of fact from monday is the 1st time a straightly has made a criminal offense for citizens to return home human rights watch has described the government response as religious this is a very drastic action that is designed to keep a strain saif it's temporary it's based on the medical adv

oh i don't that block and when i was it in that the health center it was shut there was nobody so there is absolutely at the ground level there are no health workers those who are on duty they are also covered was a 2 so there are no health workers there is no one held accountable and there since i am travelling to the villages they don't have access to credit either so there is no s.o.s. calls from the google site and they they only know of the district hospitals which are right now flu there is no bed there's no oxygen there is absolutely a kiosk at the ground right now. the year long conference for senior koreans army and russian backed separatists is putting pressure on those working near the frontline coal mines in the region have been parents have parents heavy industry for generations but night minus say the fighting is making their work more difficult chance transferred reports from course kyra in eastern ukraine. the 8 hour shift starts with a pos right to the minute before they hit one kilometer on the ground. coal miners in eastern ukraine were relatively well paid a

so we we are able to provide primary health care through our country to health centers on the 1st day but then on the 2nd day my chief of health fantastic palestinian doctor she was the one who called me early in the morning and said this is too hard as she put it this is too dangerous we have to today at least keep the house centers closed this is coming from a woman who is very proud to say in 2014 we didn't shop one day so it gives you a sense of the seriousness back to your question we've kept all sanitation services open yesterday because of the eat holiday everything was going to stop anyway today we've resume sanitation so cleaning in the aid camps and tomorrow we hope that the situation will precipitate primary house care the next big challenge is to support people in our in our schools who are seeking shelter so we will do what we can to provide support the most basic support to the internally displaced gaza is under bombardment it's in the middle of a pandemic how are hospitals in gaza coping at this point. be i really is my understanding i haven't been in the last 23 days o

mobiles of the most important means of transport here a quick ride takes the team to the local health center. inside around 20 villagers are waiting for their shot. i think. like most of the villagers lawrence roberts belongs to the gwich'in tribe for many years he's relied on his strong constitution but in time of the pandemic he wants to play it safe. from wherever they go the way you would have to get sick or you know if it will prevent hospitalization this could. take off to the next village it may be one of the world's remotest places but when it comes to the vaccine program alaska is leading the way. a shanty town on the southern edge of the trade is what if you were the poorest neighborhoods. people here lack a lick tricity you know their basic that it is and the government looks on without taking action. regional authorities and the process of demolishing these houses. social work a canal he menaces eyewitness to this transition right in front of us is where they will build a regional park. demolition the government's attempt to stop the illegal settlements here but relocation is slo

have done a large scale that's a nice insights as well as getting it to smaller sites community health centers and retail pharmacies so really getting more supply more steady supply and getting the vaccine out some more availability sites that's been the key at the same time though since the middle of april the number of daily vaccinations has been going down to more or less 2000000 per day why is that. so we have kind of picked up point where a lot of people who want to be vaccinated have then vaccinated you know 50 percent of people have gotten at least one dose just about and so you know we're really getting to the point now where we need to work harder to get people to assure people to get information to people and we're still there actually eating about 2000000 people per day so that's really good we have about 10 states that have vaccinated over 50 percent of their population but about 10 states for only about 35 percent of been vaccinated and that's really the difference by region of you know people with regard to their skepticism or you know they're cautious about getting the vaccine s

states have done a large scale vaccination sites as well as getting it to smaller sites community health centers and retail pharmacies so really getting more supply more steady supply and getting the vaccine out some more availability sites that's been the key at the same time though since the middle of april the number of daily vaccinations has been going down to more or less 3000000 per day why is that. so we have kind of picked up point where a lot of people who wanted to be vaccinated have ben vaccinated you know 50 percent of people have gotten at least one dose just about and so you know we're really getting to the point now where we need to work harder to get people to assure people to get information to people we're still there actually eating about 2000000 people per day so that's really good we have about 10 states that have vaccinated over 50 percent of their population but about 10 states for only about 35 percent of been vaccinated and that's really the difference by region of you know people with regard to their skepticism or you know they're cautious about getting the vaccine so i

community manages to rehab village they to rebuild some of the infrastructure where it works like health centers or schools right now the power supply across gaza dropped to 8 to 10 hours a day which really hugely disruptive the provision of basic services health services hospitals machines the water supply gaza is the place where the spare is really high where unemployment is soaring where the social economic conditions are really bad again primarily because of the blockade but also it's a place where covet has hit really really high vaccination rates amongst palace that in palestine are 5 percent that's very very low and while in europe has been at the forefront of responding and trying to mitigate the spread the government 1000 i have to reinforce here the message that covered 1000 comes on top of many many layers of conflicts and blockades and unemployment and the spare and the massive psychological crisis in gaza if you're a 15 year old today in gaza all you've known is gaza and being under blockade the psychological impact of that is huge on the youth who find no prospects when they are in

health care preventive care essential services and then to primarily low income children and adolescents across the nation to play a critical role with those underserved populations and during the pandemic many centers have been using telehealth to provide healthcare services that is incredibly important and that they require social medical mental health services. speak to thets investment with the 2022 hhs budget? and what do you ensure that they receive those mental health services that they need? and then to be as creative and innovative we could possibly be? >> as usual we are on the same page on this subject. hhs with everything we can so as youp know we don't dictate to the locals how we do things that we do help them and assist with resources and i will tell you if we are smart we can use some of the investments that is in the presidents budget they are in need of care or a particular disability to make sure we have the kickback we went to make sure they are supported with the help of congress and others if we have the american family plan through hhs would be very busy to make sure kids have a they need to succeed in life thank you for that collaboration i yield back. >> now the gentle man f

states have done a large scale vaccination sites as well as getting it to smaller sites community health centers and retail pharmacies so really getting more supply more steady supply and getting the vaccine out some more availability sites that's been the key at the same time though since the middle of april the number of daily vaccinations that's been going down to more or less 3000000 per day why is that. so we have kind of picked up point where a lot of people who want to be vaccinated have been vaccinated you know 50 percent of people have gotten at least one dose just about and so you know we're really getting to the point now where we need to work harder to get people to assure people to get information to people we're still there actually eating about 2000000 people per day so that's really good we have about 10 states that have vaccinated over 50 percent of their population but about 10 states we're only about 35 percent of been vaccinated and that's really the difference by region of you know people with regard to their skepticism or you know they're cautious about getting the vaccine

gathering for weeks of anti-government protests there was a pity reports now from bogota as in most health centers in critical care units at the national university hospital are close to collapse from us in the song but we have 32 beds here all covered right now 15 beds we use intermedia unit have now been converted to i.c.u. we are stretched to the limit. dr. says the latest surge in infections has been devastating affecting younger patients and overwhelming already exhausted doctors and nurses the most worrisome thing is that we see that the peak is going to last longer than expected we will lack beds we are already holding ventilated patients longer in emergency rooms a month and a half ago a patient would find in i.c.u. in 2 hours now we are looking at a day or longer. colombia's 3rd peak of infections has been the most contagious and deadliest with the average number of daily deaths close to 500 the government says it's planning to transfer patients by air to other cities outside this emergency room the relatives of the patients fear for their loved ones in need of a ventilator. it's all full

but there is deborah mccarthy the health centers director she's responsible for the area's $500.00 residents who have to forego a lot of snow slopes instead of asphalt roads no pubs no restaurants no fast internet this is what normality looks like 8 miles north of the arctic circle.

i spent 8 hours on the road on the phone with dreams of different hospitals public health centers to find a center that would allow my 87 year old father and my 72 year old mother to get their 2nd dose in a situation where they wouldn't have to wait for more than 2 or 3 hours in the event we found one at 4 pm in the evening after trying all morning and they waited 2 hours in the home at about 7 o'clock. with this 2nd doze last week i'm going to bring in our what audience here we have a. tweet from motion or who says that this is this is a response to the stream tweeted out are you worried about covert vaccine inequality in your country and motion says this is specifically true for india which is hardest hit for a vaccination needs to be enrolled in an app which most indians don't have access to it's a model which is most discriminatory and biased against the less privileged and role in the end said to do with your family role than the app. you know this is a hilarious story but i have a love hate relationship with the indian government which over the last 7 years has been actually pur

we are also partnering with school-based clinics and community health centers. of course, we remain focused on equity in our vaccine program. the vaccine is free for everyone. free. additionally, if teens are on the move this summer, they can get their first shot in one place and the second shot elsewhere. at the same time, we are also launching an important public education campaign. first and foremost, we are providing families with trusted medical information they need to make informed decisions about the vaccination. and the vaccine. our medical and scientific experts at the cdc and nih will be out there in the public everyday to answer questions and get the facts out. we will also be partnering with the health care providers, schools, community organizations, states, tribes, and cities at the same time. the bottom line is this -- the vaccine for kids between the ages of 12 an 15 are safe, effective, easy, fast, and free. my hope is that parents will take advantage of the vaccine and get their kids vaccinated. let's remember, millions of 16 and 17-year-olds