The EXCITE Newsletter: June 10th, 2021

Good morning,

We have a few items this week. The first is a reminder about the Activity 1 and Activity 2 Grantee Kickoff Events (registration below). As a reminder, Activity 1 projects can join June 10th OR June 14th for their kickoff event. Activity 2 Projects should join on June 23rd. We ask that you help us ensure that all of your team members that plan on participating register for the appropriate event(s).

As with the rest of the EXCITE project, our website (extension.org/immunization) is a rapidly-moving work-in-progress. Aaron Weibe (Extension Foundation) has made some recent updates to reorganize content for us. Namely, links to upcoming events are now up top alongside quick links to the salient reporting broken out by project type. The Landscape reporting link continues to be a place to upload and share resources and programs created with capacity funds, and soon we’ll have direct links for EXCITE Activity 1 and 2 reporting.

Lastly, the CDC has provided additional COVID-19 resources that are listed below.

My best,

Michelle Rodgers

Associate Dean and Director

University of Delaware

EXCITE Project Director
michellerodgers@extension.org

Kathryn “Katie” Stofer, PhD

Assistant Project Director for Immunization Education, EXCITE

Research Assistant Professor and Extension Specialist

University of Florida

katiestofer@extension.org

Upcoming Events

EXCITE Activity 1 Grantee Kickoff

June 10th OR June 14th

2 PM – 4 PM Eastern

REGISTER HERE

EXCITE Activity 2 Grantee Kickoff

June 23rd

2 PM – 4 PM Eastern

REGISTER HERE

CDC COVID-19 Resources

Updated as of June 9, 2021

CDC Connections

• Sign up for CDC Updates (variety of topics)
• State Immunization Managers /Association of Immunization Managers (AIM)
• Vaccine confidence consultations: confidenceconsults@cdc.gov

COVID-19 Vaccine Guidance

• White House National Month of Action to Get More People Vaccinated by July 4^th

• Information on Vaccines for COVID-19 | CDC (5/23/2021)
• Clinical resources | CDC on COVID-19 Vaccination
• Vaccinating Migrant/Migratory and Seasonal Food and Agriculture Workers | CDC (5/28/2021)
• COVID-19 Vaccines Work | CDC
• Considerations for Planning School-Located Vaccination Clinics | CDC
• COVID-19 Vaccines Are Free to the Public | CDC
  

Communication Toolkits, Social Media, & Other Resources

• Print Resources | CDC (This site has all CDC COVID-19 print-only materials)
• Customizable Content for School-Located Vaccination Clinics | CDC
• Communication Resources for COVID-19 Vaccines | CDC
• Public Health Communications Collaborative (Trust for America’s Health, deBeaumont Foundation, CDC Foundation)
• deBeaumont Foundation Vaccine Communication Tips

COVID-19 Publications

• Patterns in COVID-19 Vaccination Coverage, by Social Vulnerability and Urbanicity — United States, December 14, 2020–May 1, 2021 (May 28, 2021)
• COVID-19 Vaccine Breakthrough Infections Reported to CDC — United States, January 1–April 30, 2021 | MMWR
• Mask Use and Ventilation Improvements to Reduce COVID-19 Incidence in Elementary Schools — Georgia, November 16–December 11, 2020 | MMWR (cdc.gov)
• COVID-19 Testing to Sustain In-Person Instruction and Extracurricular Activities in High Schools — Utah, November 2020–March 2021 | MMWR (cdc.gov)
• Interim Estimates of Vaccine Effectiveness of Pfizer-BioNTech and Moderna COVID-19 Vaccines Among Health Care Personnel — 33 U.S. Sites, January–March 2021 | MMWR (cdc.gov)
• Hospitalization of Adolescents Aged 12–17 Years with Laboratory-Confirmed COVID-19 — COVID-NET, 14 States, March 1, 2020–April 24, 2021

CDC Partnerships

• Health Action Alliance: Tools and Resources for the business community, curated by health, business, and communication experts. Resource also available in Spanish.
• National Center for Farmworker Health, Inc. Bulletin Archive
• Add your event to the National calendar: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSdFGLcrJ9aaY_zb03wxiGfHoS4v-VYnBicoZZ7CqRZratvd5w/viewform.

Other Rural Resources

• Looking for Information?
  • Rural Health Information Hub (RHIhub) “one-stop shop for rural health info”
    • COVID-19 page
    • COVID-19 vaccination page
    • Rural COVID-19 Innovations Page
• For contacts within states:
  • State Office of Rural Health (SORH) (in 50 states)
  • State Rural Health Associations (in 44 states)
  • NACCHO Directory with COVID-19 POCs