Community partners needed to host vaccination sites in rural and underserved areas of Miss.
Office of Preventive Health and Health Equity is asking for help in minority and rural areas of state
Community partners needed to host vaccination sites in rural and underserved areas of Miss. By Maggie Wade | April 1, 2021 at 11:09 PM CDT - Updated April 2 at 9:17 AM
JACKSON, Miss. (WLBT) - The State Health Department is looking for organizations statewide to host vaccination efforts in their community.
The Department’s Office of Preventive Health and Health Equity works to reduce health disparities related to COVID-19 in minority and rural populations.
However, the rollout of the vaccine in Pennsylvania, particularly in the southeastern part of the state, continues to frustrate residents, vaccine providers and county officials.
Limited vaccine supply has made it difficult for people to find vaccine appointments and for vaccine providers that are dependent on the state s weekly allocation of doses to make appointments available.
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County officials in the region also share these frustrations as the state remains in Phase 1A of its vaccination plan.
Vaccine supply is limited across the U.S. and Pennsylvania, but some regions have been receiving higher allocations of doses per capita, resulting in a higher number of people vaccinated than other regions and counties.
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Rep. Yadira Caraveo speaks to Antonio Jaramillo about Marshall, his almost-two-year-old, in an exam room at Peak Pediatrics in Thornton. Dec. 17, 2020.
In early December, with coronavirus deaths and hospitalizations at the highest levels of pandemic, Colorado’s top public health leader took questions from the state legislature’s Joint Budget Committee.
The topic was health disparities, which have been underscored by the crisis.
The tension was clear between Jill Hunsaker Ryan, executive director of the Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment, and committee member Rep. Leslie Herod, who chairs the Black Democratic Legislative Caucus.
After a presentation from Ryan, Herod, from Denver, one of the six members on the bipartisan panel, noted that last summer Ryan’s agency and the governor had declared racism a public health emergency.