Philly started allowing walk-ins at FEMA vaccine site to improve equity. It might be working.

Philadelphia may have figured out one way to help improve the racial equity of its COVID-19 vaccine distribution, early data suggests. At the federally run clinic at the Convention Center — a location responsible for administering half of the city’s daily shots — the city on Wednesday began reserving half of its daily doses for walk-in vaccinations for residents from under-vaccinated neighborhoods. In the first two days of the new policy, there was a significant change in the demographics of people receiving coronavirus vaccinations, according to data released Friday evening by the Philadelphia Department of Public Health.