A community partnership involving UC Davis Health is offering COVID-19 vaccines by appointment at the Consulate of Mexico in Sacramento. The clinic is open to anyone eligible under health guidelines to receive the vaccine, but organizers at a news conference Monday stressed the need for Latinos to get inoculated.  

Dr. Sergio Aguilar-Gaxiola, director of the UC Davis Center for Reducing Health Disparities, thanked the consulate and Elica for their shared commitment to providing vaccinations as well as COVID-19 testing to Latinos.

Aguilar-Gaxiola, who is also director of community engagement at the UC Davis Clinical and Translational Science Center, noted that the vaccination clinic is a helpful step that will bring positive results. “The vaccine is safe and effective, it’s for the good of our families, friends, ourselves and our communities.”

The vaccination clinic is open by appointment only, Monday through Friday, from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. Those who are eligible can register at bit.ly/vaccinessac, or call 916-329-3502, or text the word “vacunas” to 833-510-7753.

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A new study, co-authored by University of California, Davis, and Sacramento State University researchers, shows how a campaign built on community-driven solutions, grassroots leadership and targeted resources has improved the health and lives of Black children, pushing back against the effects of longstanding racial inequities.

The two-year study considered the effectiveness of a regional effort to reduce preventable deaths among Black children, evaluating the impact of the Black Child Legacy Campaign, or BCLC, in seven Sacramento neighborhoods. It clearly illustrates how policymakers and communities must work closely to enact systemic change, co-authors said.

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California’s 800,000 farmworkers have been hit hard by COVID-19, the disease that has infected more than 25 million people and killed more than 420,000 in the United States. Farmworkers are especially vulnerable to the airborne virus that causes COVID-19 because they often live, work and carpool in close quarters with other people. As essential employees, farmworkers have stayed on the job during the pandemic to plant, process and harvest the nation’s food.

Agricultural safety experts and communicators at the University of California, Davis, have launched the COVID-19 Statewide Agriculture and Farmworker Education Program to reverse that trend. Funded by a $3 million contract with the California Labor and Workforce Development Agency, the project provides workers, growers, farm labor contractors, community groups and others the training and safety information they need to reduce farmworkers’ risk of contracting COVID-19.

Read the full article at the UC Davis Newsroom HERE