COVID-19: U.S. Federal Government announced a Six-Week Campaign to get more Americans their updated vaccine before the end of year
AGN.News Team
November 28, 2022
WASHINGTON (AGN.News) – White House: The Biden Administration announced a six-week campaign to get more Americans their updated COVID-19 vaccine before the end of the year. The government is urging Americans to get their updated COVID-19 vaccine now, without delay.
Why get COVID-19 Vaccine
With winter and holiday gatherings, more Americans getting their updated vaccine will help avoid thousands of preventable COVID-19 deaths.
The six-week campaign will focus on reaching seniors and the communities that were hardest hit by COVID-19 by making it even more convenient to get vaccinated and increasing awareness through paid media.
More convenient to get vaccinated
The White House says over 70,000 locations are offering the updated COVID-19 vaccines, The Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) has taken steps this month to expand to even more locations. These available locations includes mobile settings and sites in rural and remote areas, through more flexible ordering options for providers.
HHS increases vaccine availability
HHS will continue direct outreach in communities with trusted community partners and messengers to provide easy access to updated COVID-19 vaccines and information on the benefits of vaccination.
HHS is standing up pop-up vaccine clinics and educational booths at major community gatherings – from libraries to sporting events to county fairs, and more.
Additional funding for vaccinations
HHS, through the Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA), will invest $350 million into community health centers, which they can use for mobile, drive-up, walk-up, or community-based vaccination events, partnerships with community and faith-based organizations for vaccination activities, raising awareness of the updated shot, and more.
$125 million for efforts to get more older Americans and people with disabilities vaccinated, including through accessible vaccination clinics, in-home vaccinations, transportation, outreach and education.
Funding for local vaccine support
Funding will be provided to help local aging and disability networks hold vaccination events at senior and community centers. This effort will build up confidence in the vaccine.
This will educate people about the risks of COVID-19 in the weeks ahead and how vaccination will help protect the population against COVID-19.
Additionally, it will provide supportive services, such as accessible local transportation and individual assistance to overcome barriers so more Americans can get the vaccine; and connect people to the information they need to protect themselves from COVID-19.
Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services
Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) provides new enforcement guidance to ensure nursing homes are offering updated COVID-19 vaccines and timely treatment to their residents and staff.
CMS requires nursing homes to educate their residents on the benefits of lifesaving COVID-19 vaccinations and to offer the vaccines to their residents.
CMS has issued guidance reminding health care providers of this requirement. In its guidance, CMS makes clear that nursing homes with low vaccination rates will be referred to state survey agencies for close scrutiny.
CMS: Facilities that do not comply with the requirement to offer and educate on the benefit of lifesaving proven COVID-19 vaccinations will face enforcement actions, including the need to submit corrective action plans to achieve compliance.
HHS will also ask governors for their assistance and partnership in increasing COVID vaccination rates for long-term care residents and highlight for them how their states are performing against their peers.
CMS will provide data to states and health plans about the poorest performing nursing homes to help them encourage action and promote increased vaccination uptake.
New pop-up vaccination clinics
Hundreds of pop-up vaccination clinics to make it even easier for people to get their updated COVID-19 vaccines before the end of the year
National and local organizations, state and local health departments, K-12 school districts and higher education institutions, and pharmacies will continue to host pop-up vaccination clinics in urban and rural communities.
Americans can also get vaccinated at ongoing events across the country run by local schools, colleges, Historically Black Colleges and Universities, and state, county, research, and health fairs.
Organizations around the country are answering the call to host more community-based vaccination clinics in New Orleans, LA, Albuquerque, NM, Houston, TX, Jackson, MS, Miami, FL, Justin, TX, San Antonio, TX, Dallas, TX, Atlanta, GA, Berea, OH, and Salisbury, MD, to name a few.
White House: Because of these ongoing efforts, Americans have learned more about updated COVID-19 vaccines and gotten vaccinated at a wide-range of events across the country – from sporting events to health fairs to cultural festivities and trade shows.
Ongoing effort helps communities
Increasing awareness of the updated COVID-19 vaccine will ultimately help prevent COVID-19 infections; this awareness will save lives.
On Monday, November 21, 2022, a coalition of the nation’s leading medical societies stepped forward to encourage their members – doctors, nurses, and other health care workers whom patients know and trust – to use every interaction with patients as an opportunity to make strong recommendations to get vaccinated against COVID-19, educate and answer questions about prevention and treatment options, and where feasible, provide vaccination.
In addition, organizations, such as the Black Coalition Against COVID, LeadingAge, AARP, and the National Council of Aging will host town halls with their thousands of members.
The urgency of our time dictates the need to accelerate efforts to save lives through education and implementation of HHS strategies to mitigate COVID-19 infections in our communities.
Who can help spread the word?
This is an all-hands-on-deck public health emergency that calls for every available medical professional and every medical resource to join-in this fight against COVID-19.
HHS’s We Can Do This public education campaign is airing TV and digital ads during the World Cup, as well as ads focused on reaching adults 50+ for Black, Latino, Asian Americans, Native Hawaiians and Pacific Islanders (AANHPI), American Indian and Alaska Native (AI/AN) and rural audiences.
HHS: Paid media helps spread the word
HHS is launching a new, targeted paid media effort urging Americans age 50 and those with chronic conditions to seek treatment right away if they get COVID-19.
The national TV ad, “Can’t Wait,” began airing on November 21 in English and Spanish, with local TV ads running in 46 markets across the country, as well as social and digital and social ads.
COVID-19 PREVENTION
STOP THE SPREAD! GET VACCINATED!
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Everyone is being urged by the Centers for Disease Control (CDC.gov) to get vaccinated, wear masks, practice social distancing, and wash hands as a way to cut down on the transmission rate.
For more information on local responses to the novel coronavirus also called … COVID-19, contact your local healthcare provider, visit coronavirus.gov or visit cdc.gov for the United States response to the coronavirus.
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