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Gov. Hogan tours a vaccination clinic with Howard County fire chief William Anuszewski. Credit: Phil Yacuboski
Gov. Larry Hogan stopped by a Howard County church Wednesday afternoon in a push to get more people vaccinated for COVID-19.
Hogan went to a clinic at Bridgeway Church in Columbia to bring attention to the accessibility of the vaccine. As of Wednesday, half of Maryland adults had received at least one dose of a vaccine, including 80% of those 65 and older.
“When you’ve reached over 80% of people over 65, it’s those 20% that are still in that category that’s most likely to be hospitalized or to die and we want to get everyone covered, Hogan said.
As awareness of anti-Asian hate is on the rise, members of Asian communities in North Carolina are looking to gain visibility for their voices and needs.
Mario Benevente, a member of the Korean community in Fayetteville, said there were inaccurate perceptions of Asian Americans before the pandemic. One such myth portrays the group as a model minority that doesn t complain about prejudices because its members are successful, he said. I think more and more with what we saw over the time that COVID really started coming in and the name that they were kind of calling it, and then certainly, with the most recent hyper-violent stuff that happened in Atlanta, and elsewhere in California, it s all part of the same sort of ugliness, it s all come from the same place,