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To celebrate the holidays, the fitness influencer Cory Boling did mountain climbers in his apartment in a pair of camouflage swim trunks. His twin brother, Calvin, did squats while holding a kitchen stool.
The duo muscular, cheerful, constantly shirtless were two of the most eager participants in a holiday-season Instagram campaign run by the Oklahoma City County Health Department with the help of the influencer marketing agency XOMAD. Their posts were #ads, as well as invitations to stay home for Christmas, wear a mask, stop the spread, keep it tight.
For the health department, this was an experiment a test of whether social-media influencers could reach Oklahoma residents with paid messages, steering them toward behaviors that benefit public health. Now the department has doubled its budget for the real campaign: the one to get Oklahoma residents vaccinated against COVID-19. It is a relatively new and promising approach to vaccination drives, but also on
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The Oklahoma City-County Health Department and Mercy Hospital are set to host two large vaccine clinics for residents 65 and older on Friday and Saturday.
OCCHD will have 5,500 COVID-19 vaccines available at the Meinders NeuroScience Institute on Friday and Saturday.
“If you know anyone age 65 or older who has not yet received a COVID-19 vaccine, please encourage them to get an appointment this week,” said David Argueta, chief administrative officer of Mercy Hospital Oklahoma City.
“Please reach out to your friends and family or even offer to help a neighbor in need of a tech-savvy friend to help them register.”
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Montgomery: New statistics indicate a disproportionately small number of Black people are getting vaccinations against the coronavirus, a trend the state’s top health official said Friday shows the need to increase immunization efforts in the minority community. While demographic data compiled by the state has big gaps, with the race of tens of thousands of vaccine recipients not reported, Dr. Scott Harris said the numbers that are available show about 55% of vaccines have gone to white people so far compared to about 11% for Blacks. By comparison, Alabama’s population is about 27% Black, census figures show. Factors including hesitancy to accept the vaccine and the demographic makeup of groups that were allowed to receive vaccines during the earliest rounds could help account for the difference, Harris said.