When shots were scarce, 60% of Chicago’s vaccine supply went to residents of affluent suburbs and low-risk neighborhoods, Tribune analysis shows – Chicago Tribune*

“They were just trying to get as many shots into arms as possible. They were counting numbers,” said Dr. Marina Del Rios, the social emergency medicine director at the University of Illinois Hospital. “This is what happens when you measure success in terms of numbers instead of people. The most vulnerable are left out.”

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