Tackling California’s immigrant and lower-vaccinated neighborhoods

The San Francisco Bay Area has some of the highest COVID-19 vaccination rates in the US. But not all neighborhoods are equally protected, especially immigrant communities. KQED’s Farida Jhabvala Romero visited Alameda County, home to parts of the Bay Area that have been hardest hit by the virus, to find out how health workers there are trying to get more people vaccinated.

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