School of Pharmacy Volunteers Help Vaccinate Underserved Communities in Vaccine Equity Effort 2021 PharmD students Janvi Shah (left) and Kathryn Freitag (right) give the COVID-19 vaccine to a couple at the vaccine clinic held at the McKenzie Family Boys & Girls Club in Sun Prairie. Photo by Paul L. Newby II 18 May
The School of Pharmacy, Fitchburg Family Pharmacy, and the Boys and Girls Club partner to increase COVID-19 vaccine access and address hesitancy among BIPOC communities
By Katie Ginder-Vogel
As pharmacists and healthcare providers rallied to fight the COVID-19 pandemic, the race to vaccinate the public opened a different battlefront addressing vaccine equity. Although people of color have been disproportionately impacted by the pandemic in coronavirus cases, hospitalizations, and deaths, these communities of color have lower rates of vaccination. In Wisconsin, the COVID-19 vaccination rate for Black patients is about half the rate of white patients.
On one of the holiest nights of the Christian year, there will still be candle-lighting, the singing of âSilent Night,â childrenâs pageants and sermons heralding the birth of a savior.
Itâs just that much of it will be live-streamed, prerecorded, in very small groups and â in at least in one case â conducted in the bitter cold.
The COVID-19 pandemic is forcing Madison-area churches to come up with inventive, 21st century ways to celebrate Christmas Eve â perhaps the most traditional of Christian services when people pack the pews to sing hymns, listen to the story of a pregnant Mary and her husband, Joseph, looking for a place to stay for the night, and pass a candleâs flame symbolizing the light of Jesus coming into the world.
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