From the very beginning of his presidency, Joe Biden has pledged to make sure communities hit hardest by Covid-19 will receive sound information about the virus and access to vaccinations.”
Equity (and) equality” remain “at the heart” of the government’s responsibility, Biden said at a White House briefing last summer. “We need to go to community by community, neighborhood by neighborhood, and oftentimes, door to door — literally knocking on doors.”
But some of the small groups representing communities of color that were contracted as part of a National Institutes of Health Covid-19 outreach project tell CNN they have not been paid properly.
“We lost trust in the system,” said Venus Ginés, president of Día de la Mujer Latina, who said the NIH effort has been “poorly managed from the beginning” and “poorly executed.”
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