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St. Johns Missionary Baptist Church in Tampa hosts a vaccine clinic as part of Florida Department of Health efforts to reach African American and Latino residents.
As the nation passed 500,000 coronavirus deaths this week, government data revealed that the life expectancy for African American men dropped three years triple the decline among Americans overall during the first half of 2020.
In an effort to help reach minority communities that have been disproportionately affected by COVID-19 but less likely to get the shot, a coalition of 150,000 churches recently announced its plan for vaccinating over 100 million black and Latino churchgoers.
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NEW YORK, Feb. 25, 2021 /PRNewswire/ The Ad Council and COVID Collaborative today revealed the platform for their COVID-19 Vaccine Education Initiative, It s Up To You. Representing one of the largest public education efforts in U.S. history, more than 300 major brands, media companies, community-based organizations, faith leaders, medical experts and other trusted messengers are supporting the campaigns designed to reach distinct audiences. These partners include Adobe, Apple, Bishop T. D. Jakes, Black Information Network, Facebook, FOX Entertainment, Google/YouTube, iHeartMedia, John Leguizamo, NAACP, NBCUniversal, Pandora/SiriusXM/SoundCloud, Sanjay Gupta, Telemundo, UnidosUS, ViacomCBS and more.
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