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Contra Costa County Supervisor Federal Glover and District Attorney Diana Becton are hosting a webinar town hall on Thursday for a conversation focused on COVID-19, vaccination and the Black community.
Held alongside a collection of local leaders, the webinar will explore how coronavirus vaccine numbers in the Black community locally are lower compared to their white counterparts and will stress the critical importance of ensuring that every resident who is able receives a vaccination.
According to county officials, overall only 14,427 Black residents have received one dose of the vaccine out of the 544,760 administered throughout the county.
“As local health officers, we fully support all three currently available vaccines for COVID-19. All three vaccines are safe and have been shown to be highly effective at preventing symptomatic illness and hospitalization. The clinical trials for all three vaccines demonstrated that they were 100 percent effective in preventing deaths from COVID-19,” Bay Area health officials said in a joint statement.
During the town hall panelists will review the latest medical information about the vaccine, how all three vaccines approved for use are safe and effective and will take questions from community members.
“With COVID-19 continuing to circulate as we work toward community immunity, our collective medical advice is this: The best vaccine is the one you can get the soonest. The different vaccines have different storage requirements and with supplies of vaccine currently limited, the same brand may not be available at each vaccine site consistently,” health officials added.
Members of the town hall panel include town hall moderator and public health educator Nicola Ifill Fraser, Richmond Police Department Chief Bisa French, Antioch Police Department Chief Tammany Brooks, Contra Costa County health officer Dr. Chris Farnitano, Dr. Ashley Vance and Dr. Sonia Sutherland.
The free to attend virtual webinar will be held Thursday from 6 to 7 p.m. on video teleconferencing application Zoom.
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