With Limited Internet Access, Elderly Chicagoans Struggle To Get Vaccinated — Even With ‘A Village’ Of Relatives Helping Them – Block Club Chicago

Said Liz King, a South Carolina resident who rounded up community organizers, health care workers and loved ones in a quest to get her elderly family member in South Shore vaccinated, “Without her having her own email address, a number where text messages could get to her or any online savvy, she was getting left out of these loops... I feel disappointment, I feel sad and I feel very anxious for everybody who’s still going through the same hoop-jumping process."

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