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Posted on 10/15/2021 1:16:37 PM PDT by lightman
Gov. Tom Wolf’s administration has announced the creation of a $5 million grant program designed to spur COVID-19 vaccination in underserved communities.
Wolf announced the new COVID-19 Vaccine Outreach Grant Program at an event in Philadelphia Friday afternoon. The program will provide grants ranging from $10,000 to $100,000 for outreach efforts.
The money can be used for community-based vaccination events, supplies, equipment to set up vaccine appointments, training materials and media buys, the Wolf administration said.
Earlier this week, Pennsylvania reached a milestone with 70% of the state’s adults being fully vaccinated against COVID-19. But the governor and state lawmakers noted vaccination rates are much lower in communities with Black and Latino residents.
Wolf said he hopes putting more resources in local, community groups will help lead to more vaccinations in underserved neighborhoods. And the governor acknowledged his voice may not be the best in connecting with some residents.
“We want to get the message in the mouths of people, the hands of people who can spread this message and are going to be listened to,” Wolf said.
State Sen. Vince Hughes, D-Philadelphia, pointed to low vaccination rates in some Black and brown communities, with some neighborhoods seeing vaccination rates of around 40% or less.
“We need to get extra strategies in place,” Hughes said.
Wolf said the grants wouldn’t be earmarked to large organizations but smaller, community-based groups, including non-profit organizations, educational institutions and child care institutions “that have built trust in their communities.”
“Each and every community is different, but all communities need the vaccine,” Wolf said.
The governor’s office also said grants can be used to help boost vaccination in rural areas, low-income neighborhoods and residents with less access to the Internet.
Health care officials have noted one factor in the lower vaccination rate for Black residents is a deep and well-earned mistrust of the medical community, including decades of unethical treatment of minority patients and research participants.
State Rep. Amen Brown, who is Black, said at the news conference that he initially had some qualms about the vaccine, but he decided getting vaccinated was the best way to not only protect himself but his community. Brown, D-Philadelphia, urged Black and minority residents to get the COVID-19 vaccines.
Aiming his remarks to young people, Brown said, “It is OK to get vaccinated ... I was hesitant but I’m still standing and I’m fully vaccinated.”
At a visit to Hamilton Health Center in Harrisburg earlier this month, Wolf said efforts to boost the vaccination rate in minority communities is improving, but he noted, “we still have some work to do,”
Prospective applicants must apply for grants by Nov. 1. Full instructions and applications can be found here on the state Department of Community and Economic Development website.
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I'll take a hundred bucks to risk my health!
They going to hand out Vitamin D3?
No? Wonder why not.
Don’t you first have to have a functional vaccine? Evidently none of the current ones qualify.
I chose to take the jab back in January and all I got was the hangover from He# and hot flashes.
Those Dems sure know how to swindle the taxpayer.
Wolf better Boosterize that 70% already vaxxed. After 6-8 months they automatically return to the ranks of the unvaxxed.
Imagine a virus so very deadly...
He must think we are fools. Well maybe we are.
It is free money. And it doesn’t cost a thing. Make the rich pay their fair share.... blah blah blah. Until the bill comes due and you are stuck paying it.
“...supplies, equipment to set up vaccine appointments...”
And just where are they going to get the vaccines since the product trail has dried up and the people are busy walking off the job as Biden is chasing them off the front line with threats? Nothing from nothing leaves nothing...
wy60
Inject a poison and win a prize
Interesting choice of words, to ‘spur’ vaccinations.
Is this like a horse de-wormer?
How much of that $5M will be kicked back to some Democrat’s election war chest? For that matter, how much of it will find it back ro Tom Wolf’s retirement fund?
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