Health Departments Educate Amish Community on COVID-19 Pandemic, Prevention
December 28, 2020
The Central Michigan District Health Department (CMDHD) is using their long-standing relationship with the local Amish community to help educate them about COVID-19 and prevention.
“It has been a continuous effort throughout all of this,” says Jennifer Morse, medical director for CMDHD and District Health Department #10.
Morse says they’ve worked with the local Amish community for years, going into schools and talking to the community about different vaccines.
“We do tend to do vaccination clinics for their children and so as we do those, we’ve already educated the Amish about the whooping cough vaccine, pneumonia vaccine, flu vaccines for their adult population,” says Morse.