But I can tell you first hand from practicing years in the emergency department and as a public health expert in emergencies that the number one driving factor here is systemic inequalities with access to the resources that these community members need.
Ruiz highlights systemic inequalities affecting access to vaccinations in minority populations.
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I was a premed [student] at UCLA. … If somebody turned this in, as an undergrad, to their professor at UCLA, they would have received an ‘F,’ sir, an ‘F’ — for the misinterpretation, the falsehoods, the denials, and also citing references…
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