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Chasing Life

Pharmacy Deserts

Chasing Life

CNN

Nutrition, Health & Fitness, Mental Health

4.5 • 8K Ratings

🗓️ 6 January 2021

⏱️ 10 minutes

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Summary

Vaccine distribution in the U.S. is going to rely on local pharmacies and supermarkets, but what if your neighborhood doesn’t have either? CNN's Omar Jimenez takes a closer look at "pharmacy deserts" and the impact they can have on communities trying to access the coronavirus vaccine. To learn more about how CNN protects listener privacy, visit cnn.com/privacy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

What are you most worried about when it comes to access to that vaccine?

0:06.8

That we won't get the same quality that the suburbs get.

0:10.0

And if they're offering it, are you offering me the correct doses?

0:13.4

Am I getting the best that I can get versus me going to the suburbs and getting the best that I can get?

0:19.0

More than 4 million doses of the coronavirus vaccines have been administered so far in the United States,

0:25.5

according to the CDC. There are concerns though that more vulnerable communities,

0:31.3

those often hit hardest by this virus, may not have equal access to the potentially life-saving vaccines.

0:39.1

Now sadly, this isn't a new problem.

0:41.8

Disparities in healthcare access have been around since long before this pandemic,

0:47.1

but now they've become impossible to ignore.

0:50.8

So for today's episode, I'm going to hand things over to CNN's Omar Jimenez.

0:56.2

He's been reporting on pharmacy deserts and other challenges to vaccine distribution

1:01.5

in the most vulnerable communities of Chicago.

1:05.3

I'm Dr. Sanjay Gupta, CNN's chief medical correspondent.

1:09.3

And this is coronavirus, fact versus fiction.

1:12.8

So how long you live in this neighborhood?

1:18.3

Um, on my life, 55 years.

1:22.3

Wow.

1:23.3

It's changed a whole lot.

1:25.3

If they're going to roll out a vaccine and they're going to roll it out to grocery stores and pharmacies,

1:33.3

I see a problem.

1:35.3

You feel just because the vaccine is available, it's not necessarily going to be accessible.

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