In the US, there are a lot of adults who simply do not wish to get vaccinated for COVID-19 and there are also a lot of adults who really, really don’t want their kids vaccinated.
So, Guilford County government and the State of North Carolina are both attempting to put the “Get Vaccinated” message out to everyone – regardless of the language they speak. On Tuesday evening, Nov. 16, the North Carolina Department of Health and Human Services (NCDHHS) held a Spanish-language livestream event emphasizing the safety and effectiveness of the vaccine for young children.
English speakers in Guilford County and North Carolina know very well about the ongoing campaign encouraging vaccinations – and local and state health officials also want to make sure that same message gets to non-English speakers. Roughly 7 percent of North Carolina residents speak Spanish as a primary language, and this week state health officials were talking directly to that population about the importance of getting kids vaccinated.
To date, about 68 percent of the Hispanic population in North Carolina 12 years and older has been vaccinated with at least one dose – and 72.4 percent of the Hispanic population 18 years and older has been vaccinated with at least one dose. Health officials want to see a lot of Hispanic youngsters vaccinated as well now that that’s an available option. The Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine for children was recently authorized as safe and effective for kids ages 5 to 11.
On Tuesday, Nov. 16, the NCDHHS held an online discussion about the importance of COVID-19 vaccines for children under 12 via the department’s Facebook, Twitter and YouTube pages.
Guilford County’s Department of Public Health helped get the word out about the Spanish-centric event on its social media sites. Like the state, Guilford County government has been trying to make the availability of the vaccine for kids known to those who speak English as a second language.
The main topic of discussion on the livestream was the safety and effectiveness of COVID-19 vaccinations for kids. Participants in the Nov. 16 “Tele-townhall” included Yazmin Garcia Rico, the director of Hispanic/Latinx Policy and Strategy at NCDHHS, Dr. Gabriela Maradiaga Panayotti, the associate professor of Pediatrics at the Duke University Medical Center, and Jenice Ramirez, the executive director of ISLA NC. That non-profit teaches the Spanish language and Spanish culture in North Carolina.
Belén Gómez-Jordana – a reporter and anchor at Telemundo Charlotte –moderated the conversation.
The livestream allowed people to submit questions about the vaccines and COVID-19.
State officials are also hoping the speakers of languages other than English and Spanish hear the message as well regarding kids and vaccinations. North Carolinians who speak languages other than English or Spanish as a primary language are harder to target. Other languages – such as French, Chinese, German, etc. – are each spoken as a primary language by less than 1 percent of the state’s population.
Why is so much space given to promoting Covid vacinations for “Baby Goats” rather than children? Also, if making the Covid vacine available to kids, wouldn’t it be fair for calves, lambs and other baby farm animals?
It also grates with me when children are called kids. Is it too difficult for them to utter another syllable?
No habla.
If you feel the need to live in AMERICA learn to speak ENGLISH when Americans go to live in mexico (not sure why) mexicans don’t cater to non spanish speaking AMERICANS
The “vaccines” are neither safe nor effective. They’re not even vaccines ( in the commonly accepted meaning before August 2021).
Wow can’t even read a dictionary. Here is how a vaccine is difined….
vac·cine
/vakˈsēn/
a substance used to stimulate the production of antibodies and provide immunity against one or several diseases, prepared from the causative agent of a disease, its products, or a synthetic substitute, treated to act as an antigen without inducing the disease.
What a pile of misinformation and hate you are Austin. You are an embarrassment to our community and this great online news site. I am proud to monitor the comment sections and call out every lie, hate speech, and misinformation that you make here.
Vaccine’s are safe (billions have received the shot) and effective…only unvaccinated seem to be the fools filling ICUs these days. These are facts!
You are not scoring any points or accomplishing anything by demonizing people.
One of us is certainly full of hate. You need to take a deep breath, buddy.
And the CDC has in fact changed its definition of what a vaccine is, in order to accommodate the ineffective and unsafe “vaccines”. Instead of “immunity”, now – magically! – Big Pharma can claim to have a vaccine if it just provides “protection”. How convenient for Biden, Fauci, and Big Pharma. Those are the facts. Look them up.
And please, seek help. Your vitriol for me is becoming psychopathic.
PS What “hate speech” have I ever put up?
You tried to smear me like this before when you smeared me with the term “racist”, WITH ZERO EVIDENCE. You were forced to issue a public apology to me. Remember?
Careful Chrissy, your nasty prejudice is showing again.
Now, now, y’all know the truth is called “hate speech” outside of certain circles nowadays & anytime you disagree with some folks, a simple “good morning” is racist. Invite the ol’ chap to a good old fashioned party. With blankets in case anyone gets cold, and boots to keep everyone’s feet warm & dry of course. I’m sure a long chat would be quite convincing.
Only unvaccinated in ICU’s chris really you are a true cnn biden koolaid drinking moron Maybe you should watch FOX then you can learn about break over cases with people who are fully vaccinated only God can save us from fools like you
Did they also communicate in Spanish to those Spanish speakers that SAR-Cov-2 has little if any impact on children and that young children are not likely to share it with adults? Hence negating any potential necessity for something with no animal trials and less than 18 months of human trials?
What they most likely communicated is that vaccines have two purposes. 1. Protect the person receiving the shot from the disease (certainly not as important in small children as it is in older adults) and 2. Reduce the transmission of the disease to protect the more vulnerable (their parents and grandparents) as well as reducing transmissions that lead to further mutations of the virus within the broader community.
This vaccine is the most studied vaccine in the history of vaccines given its use globally and the tech deployed to monitor the billions of people who have received the shot. Talk to your doctor. They will help you better understand the very limited risks of the vaccine versus the risks of continuing to allow the virus to spread and mutate.
Best wishes.
Really chris “ most studied” in what era did you grow up in. The Spanish flu took so much longer the polio vaccine was studied and took over 20 years to be approved. chris I’ve said this before me thinks you be a moron
He’s often called “Chris the Moron” in these columns – for good reason.
His English is that of a 6 year old, and he has glaring personality issues. As John Hammer might say, he cannot disagree without being disagreeable.
In other words, he’s a run-of-the mill Leftist.
“This vaccine is the most studied vaccine in the history of vaccines…”
Oh what a whopper!
If you’re going to lie, tell a whopper, right?
What a pile of misinformation is Chris the Blowhard.
Nutters are out in full force against me….vaccines are safe, effective, the tech behind mRNA has been used in the field and tested for over a decade. But the nutters are happy to ignore how it is now mostly the unvaccinated that fill hospital beds where the virus continues to spike.
Call me names all you like but the dead bodies now are the unvaccinated. NOT the vaccinated.
Best wishes nutters.
“Yes, that’s it! The rest of the World is mentally ill! The’re all nutters! But I’m as sane and sober as a judge…
It’s them, I tell you! It’s them….! All of them!
And do you know what’s worse?
All those “nutters”… they call me bad names. I never call them bad names…”
See a shrink. Soon.
PS You are displaying all the signs of a paranoid schizophrenic.