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Volunteers working to get more information about COVID-19 vaccine to folks
Canvassers share vaccine information By Alan Collins | April 12, 2021 at 6:06 PM CDT - Updated April 12 at 6:07 PM
BIRMINGHAM, Ala. (WBRC) - Volunteers hit the streets Monday trying to provide information to people in west Birmingham about COVID vaccines.
It’s hoped they will be able to give out information to some 3,000 homes in the Smithfield and Graymont communities of Birmingham. They will be working over the next four days hoping to convince more people to take those shots.
The volunteers are putting out door knockers with information about the vaccine, along with phone numbers and websites where people can get even more information.
From left to right: Jackie French, Housing Authority Birmingham District; Jefferson County Commissioner Sheila Tyson and Tiffany Osborne (at mic), UAB Minority Health and Health Disparities Research Center director of community engagement in the Smithfield community during a canvassing event to increase awareness about the COVID-19 vaccines. (Erica Wright, The Birmingham Times)
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Door knockers about the COVID-19 vaccine hung on over 3,000 doors around the Smithfield community on Monday thanks to the work of some local entities.
Jefferson County Commissioner Sheila Tyson, the Housing Authority of the Birmingham District (HABD) and the University of Alabama at Birmingham’s (UAB) Minority Health and Health Disparities Research Center (MHRC) partnered in an effort to help decrease vaccine hesitancy and increase vaccine awareness.