Sean Penn aids vaccine drive with CORE, a nonprofit for hard-to-reach communities

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CORE, which stands for Community Organized Relief Effort, offers vaccines in Washington, DC, Oakland, California, New Orleans, Chicago, Los Angeles and a county in North Carolina. Penn started the organisation in 2010 after a catastrophic earthquake claimed tens of thousands of lives in Haiti.

A disaster relief organisation founded by actor Sean Penn is boosting Georgia's drive to inoculate people against the coronavirus, though some of its pop-up vaccine clinics have struggled to attract people.

"We feel like every opportunity is not wasted if we can get a shot in an arm," said Chris Rustin, a senior advisor to the commissioner of the Georgia Department of Public Health. "We 're really trying to focus on the last frontier of unvaccinated individuals," said Teni-Ola Ogunjobi, a spokeswoman for the group.

Most of his colleagues refused, citing conspiracy theories, including that the shots delivered microchips that the government would use to track them, he said.In contrast, the CORE site at the Atlanta church last week attracted only one person – a college student – from 10:30 am to 4:30 pm.

Overall, the group has administered more than 55,000 shots since late March at its Georgia pop-up sites. Throughout the state, more than 10 million doses have been administered. Vaccines are also available at pharmacies, hospitals and doctors' offices.

 

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