Last September, New York City was in the throes of the COVID-19 Delta variant outbreak, despite mask mandates and widespread availability of COVID vaccines. Confidence in our City’s ability to end the pandemic for good was eroding, and, as has been the case in health crises throughout history, communities of color- Black, Hispanic, Asian, immigrant communities, and more- experienced the worst, trailing in vaccinations but leading in hospitalizations and deaths. CIANA, which a