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Latino Philadelphians are getting vaccinated more quickly than any other group. It hasn’t been easy.

After spending much of the past six months as an undervaccinated community, Hispanic vaccination rates have rebounded in Philadelphia.

Jose Torradas of Unidos Contra COVID (right) places a band-aid on the arm of Fernando Rodriguez after giving him his first dose of the COVID-19 vaccine at Garces Laboratories in Old City on Saturday, July 17. Vaccination rates among the city's Hispanic population have been quickly improving.
Jose Torradas of Unidos Contra COVID (right) places a band-aid on the arm of Fernando Rodriguez after giving him his first dose of the COVID-19 vaccine at Garces Laboratories in Old City on Saturday, July 17. Vaccination rates among the city's Hispanic population have been quickly improving.Read moreHEATHER KHALIFA / Staff Photographer
    by Jason Laughlin
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