The Restoration House COVID-19 Vaccination Clinic: Challenging Systemic Racism and Ableism through Community Solidarity and Action
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Abstract
This paper reviews the advocacy efforts, community organizing, establishment, operation, and lessons learned from a project in Hamilton, Ontario to build the first-ever COVID-19 clinic for Black and other racialized people, people with disabilities, and those experiencing barriers to access COVID-19 vaccinations. Community advocates, academics, and health leaders who are from and serve Black and other racialized and marginalized groups in Hamilton responded to the overwhelming impacts of COVID-19 on marginalized Black and other racialized groups in Hamilton through relational solidarities that allowed for community members to lead the advocacy, design, and operation of a clinic to serve those most in need with the knowledge and expertise most capable of such an intervention. Amidst resistance of municipal and provincial officials to act for healthy equity, racist backlash, and problematic organizational and institutional responses to the needs of Black and other racialized community leaders, Restoration House clinic advocates and community leaders responded to the demand by maintaining focus on community through collective solidarities. The Restoration House example offers several contributions to how we think about community and public health advocacy, organizing, and operational interventions through crises and beyond. Cet article passe en revue la campagne de revendication, les efforts d’organisation communautaire, la mise en place, le fonctionnement et les leçons tirées d’un projet mené à Hamilton, en Ontario, et visant à établir la toute première clinique COVID-19 pour les personnes Noires et racialisées, les personnes handicapées et celles qui rencontrent des obstacles à l’accès aux vaccinations COVID-19. Les défenseurs de la communauté, les universitaires et les dirigeants du secteur de la santé issus et au service des personnes Noires, racialisées ou marginalisées de Hamilton voulaient trouver une réponse adéquate aux effets disproportionnés de la COVID-19 sur les personnes Noires, racialisées ou marginalisées de Hamilton en utilisant les solidarités relationnelles qui ont permis aux membres de la communauté de diriger la revendication, la conception et les activités d’une clinique pour servir les personnes qui en ont le plus besoin avec les connaissances et l’expertise les plus à même de mener une telle intervention. Dans un contexte d’hésitation des autorités municipales et provinciales à agir résolument pour l’équité en santé, de réactions racistes et de réponses organisationnelles et institutionnelles défaillantes aux besoins des leaders de la communauté Noire et d’autres communautés racialisées, les défenseurs de la clinique Restoration House et les dirigeants communautaires ont répondu à la demande en maintenant l’accent sur la communauté par le biais de solidarités collectives. L’exemple de la Restoration House apporte plusieurs contributions à notre réflexion sur la défense des intérêts de la communauté et de la santé publique, l’organisation et les interventions opérationnelles en cas de crise et au-delà.
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Full frame distilled prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.
Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.013 | 0.002 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.002 | 0.001 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.002 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.012 | 0.001 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.001 | 0.003 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Research integrity | 0.002 | 0.005 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.000 | 0.002 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; both teacher heads agree on what is shown here.
How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".