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‘We’re Trying to Meet People and Serve People from Where They Are’: Mississippi Woman Creates Mobile Vaccination Service for Black Delta Communities
More than 200 million total COVID-19 vaccines have been administered in the U.S. over the past few months. Rural communities across the country have been in that number, despite the limited number of vaccination sites.
Mississippi native Pam Chatman saw this need for an increase in vaccinations around her community of Cleveland, Mississippi, and began creating the Vaccination Transportation Initiative.
The VTI program is a call for action to assist families across the Mississippi Delta to get vaccinated without worrying about transportation to get to the closest clinic.
Wilbert Marshall, 71, looks away while receiving the COVID-19 vaccine from Melissa Banks, right, a nurse at the Aaron E. Henry Community Health Service Center in Clarksdale, Miss., Wednesday, April 7, 2021. Marshall was among a group of seniors from the Rev. S.L.A. Jones Activity Center for the Elderly who received their vaccinations. The Mississippi Department of Human Services is in the initial stages of teaming up with community senior services statewide to help older residents get vaccinated. (AP Photo/Rogelio V. Solis, File)
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The pause of the Johnson & Johnson vaccine has, in some areas of the nation, made it hard to get shots into the arms of people who are homebound, live long distances from vaccination sites, or are generally reluctant to get a COVID-19 vaccine.
Johnson & Johnson is a one-dose vaccine, something that some people find convenient, especially if their primary mode of transportation to a hospital is an airplane.
“The Johnson & Johnson vaccine is … more convenient for people to utilize when they have difficulty scheduling a second dose,” said Shirley Young, a spokeswoman for the Alaska Native Medical Center in Anchorage. “For instance, if someone flies in from a rural area to Anchorage in order to have surgery and hasn’t yet been vaccinated, then the Johnson & Johnson vaccine would be a good fit.”