As an assistant teaching professor in the MU Sinclair School of Nursing, Stefanie Birk knows there are nursing students unsure of how to talk with people hesitant about getting a COVID-19 vaccine.
From staff and wire reports
Missouri is preparing to launch a $5 million ad campaign to urge residents to get the coronavirus vaccine as appointment times begin to go unfilled in some places even though the state expanded eligibility to everyone age 16 or older.
Called Stronger Together, the campaign will begin next month and provide vaccination information through radio, TV, print and social media messages. There is definitely misinformation, disinformation circulating, said state health department spokeswoman Lisa Cox. I think the challenge is very similar to what we saw throughout the last year, making people aware of why these efforts are important and the impact they make and how the virus works and what it is going to take to get back to as close to normal as we feel we can get.
BOONE COUNTY â Black doctors, nurses and health educators will lead a forum Wednesday night on COVID-19 vaccines, specifically for the Black community in Boone County.Â
From 6 to 7:30 p.m., the Columbia/ Boone County Public Health and Human Services, MU Health Care, Boone Hospital Center, the County of Boone and the Student National Medical Association will put on Let s Talk: COVID Vaccines and the Black Community virtually.Â
Sara Humms, community relations specialist for the Columbia/ Boone County PHHS, said the goal of the forum is to connect. Our goal is to listen and to answer questions, Humm said. Learn about some barriers people are facing so we can try to work on breaking those barriers down and then also just provide information that folks need to make a decision on if they want to get the vaccine
BOONE COUNTY â Black doctors, nurses and health educators will lead a forum Wednesday night on COVID-19 vaccines, specifically for the Black community in Boone County.Â
From 6 to 7:30 p.m., the Columbia/ Boone County Public Health and Human Services, MU Health Care, Boone Hospital Center, the County of Boone and the Student National Medical Association will put on Let s Talk: COVID Vaccines and the Black Community virtually.Â
Sara Humms, community relations specialist for the Columbia/ Boone County PHHS, said the goal of the forum is to connect. Our goal is to listen and to answer questions, Humm said. Learn about some barriers people are facing so we can try to work on breaking those barriers down and then also just provide information that folks need to make a decision on if they want to get the vaccine