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Shalina Chatlani, WWNO

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With Roots in Civil Rights, Community Health Centers Push for Equity in the Pandemic

By Shalina Chatlani, WWNO June 8, 2021 Ñî¹óåú´«Ã½Ò•îl Health News Original

Community health centers were born in the 1960s to reach low-income communities. But some rural health experts say federally qualified health centers were a missing piece in achieving early equity in the vaccine rollout.

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