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‘Better in your arm than in the trash.’ With COVID-19 shots in short supply, some people are getting vaccinated with leftover doses that might otherwise be wasted.

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“If everyone is left to their own devices, then people with more access — to cars, to computers and to information networks — will get to the front of the line, and the poor, non-English speaking or people who have to show up at work every day, who tend to (be) Black and brown citizens of our society, will be at the back of the line,” she said. “We know this is not fair, and it is especially unfair in a pandemic whose burdens have fallen disproportionately on these very people.”

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