Dr. Ala Stanford recalls the city doubting whether the Black Doctor's COVID-19 Consortium was capable of putting the precious vaccines to use.
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"They didn't have a path for me to follow," she said."I realized that there was no path, and I needed to create that path." "It was a blame. It was, 'Well, the reason why they're dying at a higher rate is they don't take care of themselves,'" she said."And that may be reason number four. But reasons 1, 2, and 3 are access, access, and access."
It's similar to the issue Dr. Melissa Pluguez and her colleagues faced when they founded Unidos Contra COVID
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