Health agencies work to ensure communities of color are vaccinated as soon as possible
Health agencies work to ensure communities of color are vaccinated as soon as possible
and last updated 2020-12-17 18:15:35-05
KANSAS CITY, Mo. â Plans for the COVID-19 vaccine rollout beyond health care workers is a work in progress, but 41 Action News talked to health agencies who are keeping communities of color in mind. We have a wide representation by tribal organizations, ethnic and racial minority groups, said Dr. Lee Norman, secretary of the Kansas Department of Health and Environment. Different socioeconomic groups and beyond that, faith leaders, medical bioethicists to look at it with many sets of optics.
KC-area organizations work to address misinformation of COVID-19 in Latino community
KC-area organizations work to address misinformation of COVID-19 in Latino community
and last updated 2020-12-11 18:27:21-05
KANSAS CITY, Mo. â COVID-19 is hitting the Latino community harder than others around the nation and here in Kansas City.
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The study found 73% percent of the people who responded to the survey knew someone who had been diagnosed with the virus.
It also found 52% of the people who participated in the survey also knew someone who died due to COVID-19 complications.
The Mattie Rhodes Art Center in Kansas City, Missouri is working to demystify the information about the pandemic and the coming vaccine in the Latino community.