
State Health Officer Dr. Joe Kanter announces the launch of a statewide campaign aimed at providing the opportunity to be vaccinated and the ability to ask questions about the vaccine in all pockets of the state.
“That is the campaign, the Bring Back Louisiana campaign that we are launching right now,” said Kanter.
Kanter said to speed up the process of reaching herd immunity and bring back a sense of normalcy, the goal of Bring Back Louisiana is to increase vaccine awareness, provide the space and opportunity to discuss hesitancy, and sign people up for appointments.
“So, imagine canvassing efforts, and people knocking on doors and reaching into communities not only to engage and talk about the vaccine and have questions answered but offer to sign people up for an event coming the next week,” said Kanter.
So far, the greatest obstacle with vaccinations has been the limited supply. Kanter said the White House indicated weekly allotments will increase significantly in April.
Just this week the CDC released a study that communities more vulnerable to the virus, as measured by the social vulnerability index, to date, are less likely to get vaccinated. Kanter said that is the focus of “Bring Back Louisiana.”
“That certainly fits with what we’ve seen so far in some pockets of Louisiana and I think we’re going to need a creative grassroots, boots on the ground, campaign like this,” said Kanter.
Kanter also pointed out that the CDC social vulnerability index to gauge how at-risk a community is in periods of disaster was created after Hurricane Katrina.
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