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Collected Item: “Native Hawaiians and Pacific Islanders, Vaccinations”

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Native Hawaiians and Pacific Islanders, Vaccinations

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When we say end violence against our elders, this means demanding accessible, equitable and culturally responsive healthcare services for them.

Here are some community-based resources who have been doing this work:
@pacificislandercovid19
@picawashington
@empoweredpi

Thank you Seattle Times for amplifying how COVID and inequitable health care services impact our communities in Washington. The impacts are detrimental and NHPI communities are impacted at disproportionate rates. Check out the entire article @seattletimes.

Some things this article highlights - vaccine services provided need to be inclusive of different cultural lifestyles and practices, lumping Asian and NHPI data together invisiblizes NHPI needs, there is a great need to bring community-based groups to the table to build accessible systems and solutions.

(Image description: a carousel of 9 slides from an article by Seattle Times. 1. A front page article that reads to fight covid-19 with vaccines, native Hawaiians and Pacific Islanders in Washington first need to be seen. 2. A quote in simple black text that reads "that is one of the things that we continue to think about How do we honor those that have passed during the pandemic? Our elders have so many stories, so much knowledge and they're essentially the wisdom keepers of our culture" seia Said. 3. The numbers tell the devastating story. Native Hawaiians and Pacific Islanders make up about 1% of Washington state's population but account for 2% of cases in the state according to the State department of health native Hawaiians and Pacific Islanders have the highest average rate of any race and ethnicity in the state at $7,132 per 100,000 people and also lead in deaths per 100,000 with an average of 151 as of February 21st, according to the UCLA Center for health policy research"

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#InSolidarity #AAPIWomenLead #COVID19

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Native Hawaiians, Pacific Islanders, vaccinations, inequality, community, elder, Social Justice, equity, healthcare, culturally responsive healthcare, NHPI, AAPI, Asian, ASU, HST580

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https://www.instagram.com/p/CL4rMFIhIwU/ and https://www.instagram.com/p/CL90F7lAelk/

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Ryan Blethen, Erika J. Schultz, The Seattle Times AAPI Women Lead

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2021-03-01
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