A Look At The Racial And Ethnic Disparities In The COVID-19 Vaccine Rollout

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Published January 28, 2021 at 4:10 PM EST

NPR's Ari Shapiro talks with Samantha Artiga, director of the Kaiser Family Foundation's Racial Equity and Health Policy Program, about racial and ethnic disparities in the COVID-19 vaccine rollout.

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