(NPR) These Health Centers Won't Let The Pandemic Stop Their Mission For Equal Access

These Health Centers Won't Let The Pandemic Stop Their Mission For Equal Access



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With Roots In Civil Rights, Community Health Centers Push For Equity In The Pandemic







Rotonia Gates, a nurse, checks the temperature of Tonya Beamon of Renova, Miss. on March 3. Beamon decided to get her COVID-19 vaccine at the Delta Health Center because she had heard good things about the staff.



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These Health Centers Won't Let The Pandemic Stop Their Mission For Equal Access


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A federally funded clinic in rural Mississippi embodies the history of community health centers in the U.S., and shows how these safety-net clinics can help minority patients during the pandemic.