Faith, medical leaders collaborate to get COVID-19 vaccine in arms of more people
‘A really wonderful facet of this work is the multifaith cooperation that we’re seeing already,’ said White House official Melissa Rogers.
February 18, 2021
Nurse practitioner Monika Trogdon, left, asks Shirley Hill some questions before giving her a Moderna COVID-19 vaccine shot at a UNC Health mobile clinic at Temple of Praise Church of Deliverance in Kenly, North Carolina, Feb. 17, 2021. RNS photo by Yonat Shimron
(RNS) Shirley Hill is used to needles. A diabetic, she pricks herself twice a day with an insulin pen. Still, she was a little nervous when she rolled up her sleeve for the Moderna vaccine on Wednesday (Feb. 17).
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Quick question: What is most fanatical terrorist state in the world?
Quick answer: According to a 2017 reportthe worlds leading state sponsor of terrorism is Iran.
I go back to 2017 to remind readers that this report was issued by the new Trump administrations State Department and that it departed radically from the assessment of Barack Obamas State Department and the previous eight years of the Obama regimes starry-eyed infatuation with that terrorist state, to the degree that both Barack Obama and then-VP Joe Biden were enthusiastic co-architects of the Iran deal (aka the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action).
Rabbi Julie Schonfeld, left, and Imam Mohamed Magid. Courtesy photo, left. RNS photo by Adelle M. Banks, right.
(RNS) Millions have already received the COVID-19 vaccination, and President Joe Biden has promised 100 million vaccinations in his administration’s first 100 days. Already, however, fears that resistance to taking the shot would become an obstacle to the vaccines’ effectiveness are coming true. In early January, some 50% of front-line workers in Los Angeles were refusing the vaccine. In Ohio, 60% of nursing home staffers declined when offered a dose.
It’s well known that faith leaders can change minds about public health measures by showing their support. “Congregants are more likely to trust not only their leaders but also those who share their faith, particularly people from their own tradition,” wrote Elaine Howard Ecklund, a Baylor University researcher, in a Religion News Service op-ed last year.
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When law enforcement failed to anticipate that pro-Trump supporters would devolve into a violent mob they fell victim to what one expert calls the invisible obvious. He said it was hard for authorities to see that people who looked like them could want to commit this kind of unconstitutional violence. Credit: AFP via Getty Images
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