COVID-19

Housing Authority of the City of El Paso distributes COVID-19 vaccine to elderly residents

2.10.21

From the El Paso Times:

The Housing Authority of the City of El Paso distributed 850 COVID-19 vaccines to elderly residents on Friday.

Along with the HACEP, the doses were made possible in collaboration with University Medical Center, Amistad, El Paso County Coliseum, El Paso County, and County Judge Ricardo Samaniego.

State program delivers COVID-19 vaccines to local Meals on Wheels clients (San Antonio Housing Authority)

2.10.21

From KSAT San Antonio:

 Vinsen Faris, CEO of Meals on Wheels San Antonio, says he’s already started getting calls from seniors grateful for the chance to get their COVID-19 shots without leaving home.

“This is one of the first in the nation to actually knock on the doors, get inside the house and do the inoculation there in the home,” Faris said.

Baltimore city government and PCs for People are teaming to recycle laptops for digital inclusion (Housing Authority of Baltimore City)

2.10.21

From Technical.ly: 

Mayor Brandon Scott and the Baltimore City of Information and Technology (BCIT) partnered with ewaste recycling org PCs for People to donate more than 900 laptops to residents of Baltimore.

With the partnership, which was detailed Tuesday, city government is teaming with a digital inclusion nonprofit to get computer equipment to low-income families in the city at a time when access to devices is crucial for distance learning and remote work.

Vaccinations at public housing to begin Thursday after state stumbles; some will get shots at home (Cambridge Housing Authority)

2.10.21

From Cambridge Day:

A campaign to bring Covid-19 vaccine to tenants in public housing developments for the elderly and disabled has begun to show results. On Thursday the Cambridge Public Health Department will vaccinate residents of Manning Apartments in their 205-unit building in Central Square. On Friday, tenants at the 297-unit Miller’s River Apartments in East Cambridge will get the vaccine onsite.

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