Erie County Sponsors COVID-19 Vaccine Community Forum
As the COVID-19 Vaccine has started to roll out and people have been getting vaccinated, there still remain millions of people who have yet to get the vaccine. There are also tens-of-millions of questions that still remain unanswered in communities across the country.
To help answer questions that people have, and in an attempt to increase the number of people who will take the vaccine, a large coalition of people and organizations have partnered together to bring a COVID-19 Vaccine Community Forum.
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COVID-19 Vaccine: Let s Talk About It forum is going to be a public session for people to get information, ask questions, and address the concerns that patients, clients, families, and community members have about the COVID-19 Vaccine.
WBFO s Thomas O Neil-White reports.
Irizarry and members of the Community Health Worker Network of Buffalo Parent Association are voicing their concerns about the strain the school year has put on mothers and caregivers, and about feeling left out of having a say in Buffalo Public Schools reopening plans.
Parent Association President Jessica Bauer Walker says the reopening process must include the input of parents, and communication can no longer be a one-way street.
“We’re here to say as mothers, nothing about us without us is for us,” she said. “We are, in addition to all the work we’re doing as mothers, as community health workers, as caregivers, going to multiple district meetings, sharing our ideas and then the district makes decisions that have nothing to do with what we’ve shared. It’s very frustrating.”