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“Our greatest responsibility is to be good ancestors.” – Jonas B. Salk, virologist and medical researcher, developed one of the first successful polio vaccines.
The Fred T. Korematsu Institute – in the fourth year of our partnership with the Asian and Pacific Islander American Health Forum (APIAHF) – are working to spread the word about the power of vaccines, to lessen the impacts COVID-19 in communities and on daily life. We are particularly keen to share appropriate safety measures, dispel any misinformation about the vaccine and COVID-19, and reach out to racial and ethnic minority groups that may be underserved and undervaccinated due to language or access barriers or even xenophobia.
“Our top recommendation for protecting yourself and your loved ones from respiratory illness is to get vaccinated.” – Mandy Cohen, M.D., M.P.H, CDC Director
While many people may face relatively low risk, experts maintain COVID-19 is not gone and remains a concern for older people and individuals with limited immune systems. You can see the recommendations for COVID-19 and flu vaccines and learn about the coming 2024-2025 vaccines to help everyone stay safe and to help keep our communities safe here: https://tinyurl.com/ypn25887
We hope that by reaching out to educators, parents, and students with accurate and up-to-date, valid COVID-19 information, we can help answer any lingering questions with reliable, current information on our portals to reach unvaccinated pockets of the Asian American, Native Hawaiian, and Pacific Islander communities and beyond.
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Here are some resources in support of CDC COVID-19 recommendations available for limited-English-Proficient populations. The information is available in Arabic, Burmese, Chinese, Chukkese, Dari, English, Kinyarwanda, Korean, Mixtec, Pashto, Russian, Spanish, Swahili, Tagalog, Thai, Tongan, Ukrainian, Urdu, Vietnamese, and Urdu. They also provide COVID-19 informational audio public service announcements (PSAs) for the visually impaired.
CDC Educational Flyers: LINK
CDC Audio PSA: LINK
Review our APIAHF’s partner site of resources: LINK
Find your Community Level of COVID-19 infections on the CDC website: LINK
Here are some articles about how AANHPI communities are responding to and being affected by COVID-19, and vaccine hesitancy and access.
Total Vaccine Numbers may be Miscalculated Due to Vaccine Recipients Unwilling or Frightened to List Ethnicity when Reporting: LINK
Asian American Subgroups and The COVID-19 Experience:
What We Know And Still Don’t Know: LINK
NCAPA Statement on Disaggregating COVID-19 Data Reporting to Better Serve and Target Individual AAPI Communities: LINK
We celebrated our Fred Korematsu Day program, in partnership with the Asian American Pacific Health Forum (APIAHF) on January 30, 2022. Our event focused on the theme of social responsibility and our #GetVaccinated campaign to increase and featured an educational webinar with our host journalist Rosie Nguyen speaking with experts in the field, Dr. Janet Lam and epidemiologist Tracy Lam-Hine about myths and misinformation about COVID-19 and influenza vaccines and answering all our audience questions. The Fred T. Korematsu Institute was also pleased to present our inaugural Fred Korematsu Social Justice Award to actor, producer, and activist, Daniel Dae Kim.
You can watch our 2022 Fred Korematsu Day of Civil Liberties and the Constitution event here: FRED KOREMATSU DAY LINK
This webpage was made possible by cooperative agreement CDC-RFA-IP21-2106 from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS). Its contents are solely the responsibility of the authors and do not necessarily represent the official views of the CDC/HHS.