PEOPLE WITH DISABILITIES NEED COVID-19 VACCINE NOW!
PLEASE JOIN US IN ASKING GOVERNOR WHITMER AND THE MICHIGAN DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES (MDHHS) FOR:
WHO TO CALL | TWEET | EMAILGovernor Whitmer: Call (517) 373-3400 | Twitter, @GovWhitmer MDHHS Director Elizabeth Hertel: (517)373-3626 |email, HertelE@michigan.gov | Twitter, @MDHHS_Director Chief Medical Executive Dr. Joneigh Khaldun: (517) 284-4730 | email, KhaldunJ@michigan.gov | Twitter, @DrKhaldun |
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WHAT TO SAYIntroduce and identify yourself as a person with a disability, or as a family member or other supporter of a person with a disability.
Then explain why the Covid-19 vaccine is so important for people with disabilities. It’s because people with disabilities are more at risk for getting and dying of Covid than people without disabilities.
Ask for an upgrade in vaccine priority status for ALL people with disabilities, for easy and convenient ways for people with disabilities to get information about the vaccine, and to get the vaccine itself.
Express concern that institutional bias is putting people with disabilities who live independently at greater risk, since people with disabilities in congregate settings with the same disabilities are being vaccinated now.
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