Doctors stress need for community engagement, prevention in public health responses

From early on, the coronavirus pandemic has laid bare stark health inequities through infection and death rates. Testing access quickly became a concern, and now, so has vaccine access — state health department data indicate that Black and Latino Californians are under-represented among people getting vaccinated. Dr. Kim Rhoads and Dr. Carina Marquez, who have been working on community-driven initiatives to address those inequities, talk about the importance of prevention and community engagement to public health.