Baystate Health specialist part of team working to identify inequities, assist most vulnerable
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SPRINGFIELD Dr. Paul Pirraglia, a Baystate Health internal medicine and public health specialist, has been part of a group meeting remotely since last March to identify those whose economic and social resources made them particularly vulnerable to COVID-19
The group includes other Baystate representatives, as well as members from the Public Health Institute of Western Massachusetts and Caring Health Center, and plans to continue its work even as COVID-19 cases have dropped regionally and across the state along with hospitalizations and deaths from complications of the respiratory disease.
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The vaccination question: Forum offers perspectives from African American, Latino communities
In this undated photo provided by Johnson & Johnson in September 2020, a woman receives an injection during testing for the Janssen Pharmaceutical-Johnson & Johnson vaccine. Johnson & Johnson via AP
Published: 3/7/2021 11:41:21 AM
The message that landed in the chat box cut to the crux of an online forum Friday afternoon on perspectives about the COVID-19 vaccine within African American and Latino communities.
“Many of my circle of friends/family from the Latino and African American community will not be taking the vaccine,” one attendee wrote. “I understand their concerns . but hope that with conversations and education, they would have more trust.”
Panel to offer personal, professional COVID-19 vaccine perspectives among Blacks, Latinos
Updated Mar 01, 2021;
Posted Mar 01, 2021
Dr. Miguel Rodriguez is among the participants on a March 5 virtual panel offering personal and professional perspectives on COVID-19 vaccination among blacks and Latinos. A Holyoke Medical Center pulmonologist, he has cared for those with symptoms of coronavirus disease since the start of the pandemic in early 2019.
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Panelists who include physicians as well as public health and social services experts from Latino and Black backgrounds will discuss the COVD-19 vaccine during a virtual presentation Friday, March 5, noon to 1 p.m.
The Children’s Study Home, in partnership with the Public Health Institute of Western Massachusetts, is hosting the event that is viewed as an opportunity for people of color in particular to ask questions as cumulative national data shows them to have higher rates of hospitalization from COVID-19 tha
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SPRINGFIELD The Children’s Study Home will host a virtual panel discussion, “The COVID Vaccine: Personal & Professional Perspectives within African-American and Latino Communities,” on Friday, March 5 from noon to 1 p.m. in partnership with the Public Health Institute of Western Massachusetts. Click here to register for the event.
Panelists include Ronn Johnson, president and CEO of Martin Luther King Jr. Family Services Inc.; Dr. Sarah Perez McAdoo, Population Health Capstone director at UMass Medical School – Baystate; Dr. Miguel Rodriguez, pulmonologist at Holyoke Medical Center; and Frank Robinson, vice president of Public Health for Baystate Health.
Jessica Collins, executive director of the Public Health Institute of Western Massachusetts, will moderate the panel discussion. William Dávila, executive director of the Children’s Study Home, will host the event.