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Child care providers across the country are offering FREE child care to all parents and caregivers getting vaccinated OR recovering from vaccination from NOW until July 4th!

Here is a list of participating organizations (please share!):
KinderCare and Learning Care Group locations across the country will offer FREE, DROP-IN appointments to ANY parent or caregiver who needs support to get vaccinated or recover from vaccination! If you live near these organizations, drop by or give them a call to learn more.
More than 500 YMCAs in nearly EVERY STATE will offer drop-in care during vaccination appointments. That means you can just show up. No appointment needed. If you have a neighborhood YMCA, call and ask if they are participating or just drop by!
Bright Horizons will also provide FREE child care to support the vaccination of over 10 million workers employed at participating organizations. As your employer if you can use this resource through Bright Horizons!
Here is an article that announces these free services as well!
nytimes.com/2021/06/02/us/…
If you know of a local child care center offering free child care for parents or caregivers who are receiving OR recovering from a COVID vaccine - please drop their name or a link for folks to use below! I will also update this list as new participating organizations sign on!

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1 Jun
My latest is out today in @TheHillOpinion!

It’s about our two Americas - one that is vaccinated and the other, includes most of our nation’s our kids.

It’s about why vaccine equity remains critical and how to achieve it (spoiler: Family Vaccination!) thehill.com/opinion/health…
While others have argued that vaccinating children is important to increase rates of population protection (kids make up 20% of the US population) I argue that it is also critical to protect the Black and Latinx children who have suffered inordinate COVID complications and death.
While our nation has largely failed to equitably vaccinate adults, it is possible to get it right for kids and communities most impacted by COVID.

The key is FAMILY VACCINATION(!!)

Every site that vaccinates children must offer vaccination to eligible caregivers and siblings.
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29 Mar
In medicine, the people who know the least about structural racism have the most power to control how our field understands and addresses racism's impact on health. These folks are hospital executives, NIH leaders, journal editors, and chairs. They are also mostly white (men).
As a result, the medical canon remains in this perpetual cycle of racism 101, where scholars are asked to simply explain racism. So rather than funding, publishing, and implementing critical work that might address (or even eliminate) racism and its impacts, we just describe it.
Imagine if a cure for kidney disease was developed. But every article on the cure had to begin with a review of basic kidney anatomy, "because some people just aren't comfortable enough with the basics to talk about cures." There would be an outcry! And rightfully so.
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17 Mar
Spending my adult life in large cities has taught me how to assess the level of neighborhood tension based on the position of clothes in and near laundry mats. Based on my experience, here is how to recognize brief insults, signs of escalation and when folks are all out BEEFING.
If you see an entire load of laundry on the floor, this is probably a one-off offensive, the kind that transpires in response to someone removing their things from machine before they returned. This brief insult may not escalate beyond this load. Proceed with your washing.
Once I saw wet clothes thrown into the tree just outside the laundry mat. And I'm not talkin gently placed in the tree to dry, I'm talkin aggressively thrown with mad disrespect. That was an absolute escalation and a sign I should change my wash day. Crisis averted.
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13 Mar
Just reviewing some of the national vaccination data by race and ethnicity and WOW the inequities are alarming!

Look @KFF data for Black folks as of March 3. In Washington DC, Black folks make up 45% of the population, 76% of COVID deaths (!!), and only 26% of those vaccinated.
You see similar, but not as striking, racial inequities in states like Alabama, Mississippi, Delaware, North Carolina, and Maryland. These states have sizable Black populations who have suffered disproportionate rates of COVID deaths and yet have lower COVID vaccination rates.
States that are vaccinating Black residents commiserate with their percentage of the population and rates of COVID deaths are: Colorado, Massachusetts, Oregon, Utah, Vermont, and West Virginia. However, these states overall have much smaller Black populations (less than 5%).
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5 Mar
I've been wanting to scream this from the top of my lungs for a while: STOP CALLING BLACK PEOPLE VACCINE HESITANT

But now, I can also say, read why in my first ever article in @nytimes!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Short thread (with less exclamation marks lol)
nytimes.com/2021/03/05/opi…
The truth is, Black people don't hate vaccines. We hate exploitation, experimentation and neglect. And many of us, need not resurrect the ghosts of Tuskegee to recall moments in which we’ve endured such abuse.
As a result, Black folks are some of the most discerning healthcare consumers in the US. That discernment often manifests in LEGITIMATE questions & concerns. Mislabeling those concerns as "vaccine hesitancy" is dismissive AND tacitly blames Black folks for their undervaccination.
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4 Mar
Hello Black America! Black health care workers across the country and I hear your questions and concerns about the COVID vaccines and we're bringing the information right to you. It's time for us to have a conversation Between Us About Us. Watch and share now! #BetweenUsAboutUs
@BCAgainstCOVID @greaterthanCV19 @KFF and I have co-developed more than 50 FAQ videos answering the top questions and concerns we hear from Black communities. Visit BetweenUsAboutUs.org to watch and join the conversation!
Today's launch is just the beginning of our commitment to ensure every Black person in the country has the information they need to make the critical choice about receiving the COVID vaccines. Shout out to @wkamaubell who has been working with us to bring these facts to you!
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