
FAITH BASED VACCINATION RESOURCES

Booster Eligibility Update
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Good news! Everyone 50 and older and certain immunocompromised people can now get a second COVID vaccine booster 4 months after receiving their initial booster. Vaccines and boosters are the best way to stay safe from severe COVID illness. Learn more at cdc.gov/coronavirus. #WeCanDoThis
The National Council of Churches has produced a fact sheet: A Christian Approach to Vaccine Hesitancy to aid church and faith leaders in having courageous conversations about being vaccinated. The fact sheet also provides a Christian scriptural basis for a compassionate response to vaccine hesitancy and provides responses to Biblical misinformation around vaccination. This resource will be most useful to Christian congregations.
https://nationalcouncilofchurches.us/fact-sheet-christian-approach-to-vaccine-hesitancy/
The National Council of Churches also has a variety of other COVID-19 Resources specifically designed for faith communities. Some are Christian-specific, but many would be appropriate for any faith community :
https://nationalcouncilofchurches.us/resources-on-covid-19-for-churches/
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We Do Not Get Herd Immunity Without Addressing Religious Identity.”
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The 2021 PRRI-IFYC Religious Diversity and Vaccine Survey offers a deep dive into religious identity and how it relates to vaccine acceptance, hesitancy, and refusal. Religious leaders will find this VERY HELPFUL as it includes in-depth understanding of which groups are most resistant and why along with ideas of how religious leaders and religious communities can respond.
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In case you missed the event, or if you would like to forward it to a friend, here is a link to the full report.
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You may access a replay of the webinar via YouTube [here].
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You may also download a PDF of the presentation slides [here].
Key takeaways:
Faith leaders and faith communities have a huge amount of power in shaping people's opinions about getting vaccinated.
Broad messaging has gone as far as it can – now is the time for congregation by congregation, person to person conversations. People's concerns are varied from worries about missing work to worries about vaccine safety -- the most effective messages will respond directly to each person's exact concern.
Some things that have proven effective that houses of faith can do to address vaccine hesitancy:
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Holding a forum on vaccine safety
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Faith leader(s) publicly getting a vaccine
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Fellow members publicly getting a vaccine
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Holding vaccine clinics at your congregation
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Helping members to get vaccine appointments
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Addressing vaccines in worship
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