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NIH COVID-19 Communities Responding Together

CEAL releases new COVID-19 booster shot Q&A  

New CDC data on December hospitalization rates are a reminder of the value of COVID-19 boosters. Help encourage the critical step of vaccination in your communities by using CEAL’s new fact sheet — Questions (and Answers) About COVID-19 Booster Shots. The fact sheet provides the criteria for boosters for adults and children, including information for those who are immunocompromised.

Download the CEAL fact sheet in English

Download the CEAL fact sheet in Spanish

New tip sheets to promote Asian American, Native Hawaiian, and Pacific Islander community engagement 

CEAL’s Asian American, Native Hawaiian, and Pacific Islander (AA NHPI) Interest Group has created three tip sheets to help engage AA NHPI communities. The tip sheets discuss language considerations, community institutions and leaders to partner with, approaches for gaining trust, and more.  

Download the tip sheets from the CEAL website: 

• Getting Started: Where to Go  
• How to Best Engage and Communicate: Lessons Learned So Far from COVID-19  
• Small Communities Matter: Paving the Way to Widespread Usage of Correct Data Disaggregation Practices

NY CEAL: Community members tell their own #Vax4Community stories 

NY CEAL is collaborating with NYU-CUNY Prevention Research Center and other groups to produce a digital project where youth and young adults share stories of why they got vaccinated for COVID-19. See the first videos of this 15-story series on YouTube. Learn more at #Vax4Community: Digital Storytelling to Increase Vaccine Uptake. 

MA CEAL infographic: Are You Experiencing Long COVID?

This infographic helps you identify whether you’re suffering from long COVID, also known as post-COVID syndrome. Anyone experiencing these long-term symptoms should talk to their health care provider. For people in the Boston area, the infographic tells you how to get treatment through Boston Medical Center’s ReCOVer Long COVID Clinic. Find the infographic on the MA CEAL team Twitter. 

Events and Key Conversations

CEAL events promote community engagement, inclusion in research, and COVID-19 vaccines. These key conversations, including town halls and panel discussions, can also be found on our Events Page.

ICYMI: Past Events and Key Conversations

DMV CEAL | Omicron and the Schools Virtual Town Hall  

Feb 3. 2022   

Listen in as Johns Hopkins doctors and public health experts answer questions related to children and COVID-19, vaccination, immunizations, variants, and mental health. See the video event for parents or video event for teachers.