Wiley Zanthia, Khalil Lana, Lewis Kennedy, Lee Matthew, Leary Maranda, Cantos Valeria D, Ofotokun Ighovwerha, Rouphael Nadine, Rebolledo Paulina A
Emory Department of Medicine, Division of Infectious Diseases, 100 Woodruff Circle, Atlanta, GA 30322, USA.
Hope Clinic of the Emory Vaccine Center, 500 Irvin Court #200, Decatur, GA 30030, USA.
Vaccines (Basel). 2022 Aug 15;10(8):1319. doi: 10.3390/vaccines10081319.
The COVID-19 pandemic has disproportionately impacted racial and ethnic minority communities, particularly African American and Latino communities. The impacts of social determinants of health, structural racism, misinformation, and mistrust have contributed to a decreased COVID-19 vaccine uptake. Effective methods of addressing and combatting these barriers are essential. Accurate and targeted messaging delivered by trusted voices from community-based organizations, government health systems and organizations, and healthcare and academic systems is imperative. Outreach and communication should be culturally sensitive, provided in the preferred language of the community, flexible, and tailored for in-person and virtual outlets. This communication must also increase trust, combat misinformation, and inspire COVID-19 vaccine confidence. In this manuscript, we outline a framework for inspiring COVID-19 vaccine confidence in African American and Latino communities. These methods of targeted outreach should be considered and implemented for urgent and nonurgent community public health efforts beyond the COVID-19 pandemic (e.g., monkeypox) and as a framework to inspire vaccine confidence in those living in racial and ethnic minority communities globally.
新冠疫情对少数族裔社区造成了尤为严重的影响，尤其是非裔美国人和拉丁裔社区。健康的社会决定因素、结构性种族主义、错误信息和不信任等因素导致了新冠疫苗接种率下降。解决和克服这些障碍的有效方法至关重要。由社区组织、政府卫生系统与组织以及医疗和学术系统中值得信赖的人士传递准确且有针对性的信息势在必行。外展和沟通应具有文化敏感性，以社区首选语言提供，灵活多变，并针对面对面和虚拟渠道进行量身定制。这种沟通还必须增强信任、抵制错误信息并激发对新冠疫苗的信心。在本手稿中，我们概述了一个在非裔美国人和拉丁裔社区激发新冠疫苗信心的框架。这些有针对性的外展方法应予以考虑并应用于新冠疫情之外的紧急和非紧急社区公共卫生工作（如猴痘），并作为在全球少数族裔社区激发疫苗信心的框架。
