{"id":14201,"date":"2021-01-28T10:28:59","date_gmt":"2021-01-28T18:28:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/?p=14201"},"modified":"2021-01-28T11:10:42","modified_gmt":"2021-01-28T19:10:42","slug":"google-turns-offices-into-vaccination-sites-dedicates-150m-to-education-access","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/2021\/01\/28\/google-turns-offices-into-vaccination-sites-dedicates-150m-to-education-access\/","title":{"rendered":"Google turns offices into vaccination sites, dedicates $150M to education &#038; access"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>I love seeing people with the means\u2014material, technical, organizational\u2014to help fight the pandemic stepping up to do so. <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.google\/technology\/health\/vaccines-how-were-helping\/?utm_source=kw-newsletter&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_campaign=01282021A\">As one step<\/a>:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote\"><p>To help with vaccination efforts, starting in the United States, we\u2019ll make select Google facilities\u2014such as buildings, parking lots and open spaces\u2014available as needed. These sites will be open to anyone eligible for the vaccine based on state and local guidelines. We\u2019ll start by partnering with health care provider&nbsp;<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.onemedical.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">One Medical&nbsp;<\/a>and public health authorities to open sites in Los Angeles and the San Francisco Bay Area in California; Kirkland, Washington; and New York City, with plans to expand nationally. We\u2019re working with local officials to determine when sites can open based on local vaccine availability.&nbsp;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/storage.googleapis.com\/gweb-uniblog-publish-prod\/images\/Vaccination_efforts_hero_1.max-1000x1000.jpg\" alt=\"\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Google is also adding $150 million to previous commitments around education &amp; access:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote\"><p>Our efforts will focus heavily on equitable access to vaccines. Early data in the U.S. shows that disproportionately affected populations, especially people of color and those in rural communities, aren\u2019t getting access to the vaccine at the same rates as other groups. To help, Google.org has committed $5 million in grants to organizations addressing racial and geographic disparities in COVID-19 vaccinations, including Morehouse School of Medicine\u2019s<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/satcherinstitute.org\/\" target=\"_blank\">&nbsp;Satcher Health Leadership Institute<\/a>&nbsp;and&nbsp;<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"http:\/\/www.cdcfoundation.org\/\" target=\"_blank\">the CDC Foundation<\/a>.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p>Fight on. &#x1f4aa;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I love seeing people with the means\u2014material, technical, organizational\u2014to help fight the pandemic stepping up to do so. As one step: To help with vaccination efforts, starting in the United States, we\u2019ll make select Google facilities\u2014such as buildings, parking lots and open spaces\u2014available as needed. These sites will be open to anyone eligible for the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[14],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14201"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14201"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14201\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14203,"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14201\/revisions\/14203"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14201"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14201"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14201"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}