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🩺 📺 WATCH: Axios' @margarettalev and @mmfernandez_ host a conversation on what's next for ensuring access to quality health care, feat. @RepRaulRuizMD and @DrMichelleBIO.

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@margarettalev @mmfernandez_ @RepRaulRuizMD @DrMichelleBIO .@RepRaulRuizMD On the obstacles that may prevent some people from getting a vaccine: "I can tell you, by far, it's not vaccine hesitancy. It is a lack of resources and know-how and being able to overcome the barriers that already exist in an underserved community..."

@margarettalev @mmfernandez_ @RepRaulRuizMD @DrMichelleBIO .@RepRaulRuizMD: "Diversity in trials will help motivate, empower institutions to recruit more minority populations, women and other understudied groups in order to ensure that when we do have a treatment or medication, that they also work for those individuals."

@margarettalev @mmfernandez_ @RepRaulRuizMD @DrMichelleBIO .@DrMichelleBIO: "If you look at what's available to physicians today, there are not a lot of clinical options for diseases that are ravaging minority communities...so the true answers for disadvantaged communities are still on the research shelf."