COVID-19 Vaccine Has Been Developed With the Most Sophisticated Protocols, Be Assured The Vaccine is Safe

 We have been asked to provide sources assuring anyone about the safety of the COVID-19 Vaccine. We are only going to share outlines, but we hope you will follow the links provided.

In this blog we share with you five thematic areas:

1.     CDC statement on safety

2.     Defining  vaccine protocols and parameters of transmission

3.     Parameters for defining a pandemic and country response

4.     Establishing structures of safety

5.     Daily activities

CDC has assured us that they take time to study the nature of the virus that way it is possible to map out which medications, vaccines, or drugs to use as antidotes.

According to CDC "When there is an emerging pathogen like the SARS-CoV-2 virus, CDC expertise lies in our ability to study the new pathogen to understand how it is transmitted, and translate that knowledge into public health action. Since first learning of the cluster of cases in Wuhan, China, CDC has rapidly advanced the science around this new human pathogen, SARS-CoV-2. CDC has been both on the forefront of understanding this new disease and led the nation’s efforts to protect Americans from infection. Currently, over 6,700 CDC employees have been engaged in the agency’s COVID-19 response, and over 1,200 of these staff have been deployed to nearly 200 different locations in the United States and abroad. CDC staff have conducted rapid investigations of outbreaks that identified highest-risk priority populations and settings. Understanding specific population-level vulnerabilities and how infections spread in various types of settings has been instrumental in the development of guidance that will help keep the American people healthy and allow critical infrastructure services to be provided safely. For example, after data emerged that contrary to expectation, SARS-CoV-2 could be transmitted by people without symptoms, CDC recommended that people wear masks around others who do not live in their households, especially in settings where it is difficult to maintain a distance of six feet. There is increasing evidence that masks help prevent people who have COVID-19, including those without symptoms, from spreading SARS-CoV-2 to others."

The fear that the COVID-19 vaccine has been hastily made can be explained. Not all haste leads to waste. In some cases, haste is informed by knowledge and safety-based standard operating protocols (SOPs).

CDC defines COVID-19 as a new disease, caused by a novel (or new) coronavirus that has not previously been seen in humans. This new disease, officially named Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) by the World Health Organization (WHO), is caused by the SARS-CoV-2 virus. In dealing with a multi-agency approach has been adopted.

The Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) is working closely with other government partners in this response. Congress passed the Coronavirus Preparedness and Response Supplemental Appropriations Act, 2020; the Families First Coronavirus Response Act; the Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security (CARES) Act; and the Paycheck Protection Program and Health Care Enhancement Act. These laws have provided additional resources, authorities, and flexibility. Within HHS, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID), the Food and Drug Administration (FDA), and the Assistant Secretary for Health, along with additional components not represented today, play critical roles in the response to this public health emergency. All in all, a vaccine safety chain comes into existence.

The U.S. vaccine safety system ensures that all vaccines are as safe as possible. Safety is a top priority while federal partners work to make a coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) vaccine(s) available.

So be assured, the vaccine is safe. There is a vaccine that will stop COVID-19 in its tracks.

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Advocacy Network Africa, a Non Profit, To Serve Black Africans, Latino and Caribbean refugees in Greater Los Angeles

 We are an organization established to provide strategic information that new Americans, immigrants, refugees and asylum seekers can access easily. 

We noted a paucity of support organizations targeting Black Africans, Latino and Caribbean refugees in Greater Los Angeles and we want to make this our niche.

We do this through blogs and other social media platforms.

We want to contribute to online voices enhancing the ability for local host communities to catalyze participation in life promoting activities for all people.

With COVID-19 spikes we hoped that we could strengthen messaging targeting new Americans refugees and asylum seekers.

Through this platform we hope to reach out to many beneficiaries who may be in the Greater Los Angeles Area.

Useful Information for Asylum Seekers, New Americans, Immigrants and Refugees In California Concerning COVID-19

 

COVID-19 Must Not Win, A Los Angeles Based Activist Joins the Campaign

Tom Rogers Muyunga-Mukasa is an expert community organizer. Tom is able to work effectively in a Laboratory, clinic or at the grassroots. This versatility was gained over so many years. We caught up with Tom and this is what he told us. 

Blog Interviewer:

Tom briefly tell us your experience in the corporate world.

Tom: 

My experience in other areas enables me to be the right candidate for this job. I have worked in both Massachusetts and California since 2012-2020. 

BI: 

COVID-19 eradication campaigns are multi-faced. How can you convince a likely employer to choose you for an opening in their company?

Tom: 

I am competent, professional, and aware of the demands of the job. I shall be fully available to offer high quality assistance. I am patient and friendly with excellent communication skills, able to follow instructions and perform a variety of tasks to ensure quality life goals for the clients. 

BI: 

Can you give our readers a snap-shot into the hands-on experience?

Tom:

I have worked variously at the grassroots: as a Community Liaison connecting senior immigrants to health care services under the San Francisco General Hospital Refugee Program; HIV Prevention Committee Member under the UCSF-SGF HIV Prevention Program; Member of the Africa Advocacy Network serving San Jose, Oakland, San Francisco and Sacramento; as a Front-Office Manager under the Mercy Housing serving the Youth, families and Long Term Housing Services; and part-timed with the AIDS Foundation as a Housing Case Worker for LGBTIQQ Living with HIV in San Francisco.  

BI: 

I noticed you have experience which enables you to acquire a multi-cultural sensitivity. How have you turned that cultural sensitivity around to benefit society?

Tom:

Over the weekends I worked as a Care Giver Nurse at a long-term care facility with the Institute on Aging (IOA). I worked as the President for Best Buddies Club to raise consciousness around autism and down syndrome on Campuses. 

BI: 

This experience enabled you to rise up the ranks of the corporate world. How have you turned your expertise into a campaign against COVID-19?

Tom:

Until 11/06/2020, I was the Procurement and Logistics officer managing funds or resources provided to UNICEF-USA in Los Angeles. My task involved working with vulnerable children, link them to care, social services and provide consumables. I have been supervising over 10,000 homes which we have provided with anti-COVID-19 supplies regularly.  

BI: 

Were any other skills called for in your work? If so how can you tell the likely employer or a reader of this blog how you juggle the skills for effective outcomes.

Tom:

I am skilled in research, data-analysis, problem-solving and problem-posing techniques. I have the right leadership skills and the experience of managing responsive interventions targeting the homeless, children and families, Black, LatinX, Indigenous, LGBTQ, and other marginalized communities in California and Africa. I am a very careful but quick learner, team-player, skilled in design-thinking and execution of project plans, build and deepen relationships, and support the management of the team’s mission for reducing COVID-19 transmission.  

BI: 

If you were to be employed or involved in managing a COVID-19 eradication program. Assure the potential employer.

Tom:

I shall come with my recruitment skills, I am committed, a results-oriented person, able to work independently; organized, detail-oriented, flexible, a problem solver, and can plan around and through ambiguity. I can contribute to the fight against COVID-19. So, if you are out there and need a person with my kind of credentials do not hesitate to write to me on the following email:trm10@stmarys-ca.edu.

BI:

Thank you Tom. Our readers, you never know Tom could be the best-fit your organization needs at this time. These are very strange times.