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January 27, 2021
Dr. Amelie Ramirez, Institute for Health Promotion Research, is quoted in this article by Morning Consult that speaks to the public’s hesitation to accept COVID vaccines and the importance that members of Black, Latino and Indigenous communities increase their engagement and get vaccinated. Read the story.
January 25, 2021
The news of UT Health San Antonio becoming the city’s latest vaccine hub is shared by Fox San Antonio. Read the story.
January 25, 2021
Dr. Robert Ferrer, Family and Community Medicine, is quoted in this opinion piece by Robert Rivard of the San Antonio Report, saying that the virus is hitting economically distressed communities harder and that he strongly recommends taking the vaccines to protect against it. Read the commentary.
January 25, 2021
Dr. Robert Leverence, chief medical officer for UT Health Physicians, commented to the San Antonio Business Journal regarding the critical importance of our university’s becoming a COVID-19 vaccination hub for the region’s most vulnerable populations. Read the story.
January 22, 2021
The news of UT Health San Antonio becoming the city’s latest vaccine hub is shared by the San Antonio Report. Read the story.
January 14, 2021
Dr. Luz Garcini, UT Health San Antonio’s Center for Research to Advance Community Health (ReACH), is quoted in this Laredo Morning Times story regarding vaccine rollout issues not unique to Laredo, but the city faces extra hurdles to reach herd immunity. Dr. Garcini has been surveying community members and health workers in Laredo and throughout […]