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Role of race in US vaccine rollout gets put to the test

by Gillian Flaccus
| January 30, 2021 12:03 AM

PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — The role that race should play in deciding who gets priority for the COVID-19 vaccine was put to the test Thursday in Oregon, but people of color won't be the specific focus in the next phase of the state's rollout as tensions around equity and access to the shots emerge nationwide.

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