Religious Leaders Announce $150 Million Plan to Vaccinate Black, Latino Churchgoers Across US

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Vaccination drugs are pictured in a refrigerator in a General Practitioners surgery on December 4, 2014 in London, England.

Despite the pandemic COVID-19 has caused, Latinos did not waver when it comes to their faith. Faith will once again save them from the wrath of the virus when Mount Zion Baptist Church announces a $150 Million plan to inoculate the COVID-19 vaccine to Latinos along with Blacks across the United States.

According to a Pew Hispanic survey, 83 percent of Hispanics or Latinos claim that they are affiliated with a religion. The research adds that most Hispanics are Catholic.

Wtop News shares that the National Black Church Initiative president aims to collaborate with public health systems throughout the United States. They add that this will help reach the most vulnerable people in those communities and get them vaccinated.

Wtop News shares Reverent Evans plea to let them save their people, adding that vaccinating the Latino and the Black community members in settings that fit their role is the critical component of the group's plan.

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The benefactors

Reverent Evans shares in Wtop News that 150 thousand African American churches in the United States and the Latino community.

He adds that 3500 Latino and Black doctors are ready to be a part of the coalition's plan, which is needing 2.5 million volunteers to go on streets in every city in America and make sure that homeless people, disabled people, senior citizens, illiterate people, and people who have conceded immune systems are inoculated.

Wtop News references shares that the effort will be the most significant faith-based movement from the African American and Latino Protestant denominations to achieve a single health goal.

COVID-19 vaccines and people of color

Chicago Tribune references a report from the Associated Press-NORC Centers for Public Affairs Research. Only 24 percent of the Black and 34 percent of Hispanics plan to get the vaccine against the coronavirus.

They also add that minority races also expressed more significant uncertainty about getting inoculated, with 41 percent of Hispanic Americans and 37 percent of Black Americans claiming that they are unsure about getting immunized of the COVID-19 vaccine.

According to The Washington Post, vaccinating a large share of the United States population is essential in establishing a national immunity to COVID-19 and slowing the spread of the pathogen. They add that to reach this level, the majority of the populace must get the vaccine.

Meanwhile, the Chicago Tribune notes that church leaders intend to get the vaccine. Reverent John Zayas from the Grace and Peace Church in North Austin shares in the Chicago Tribune that the vaccine is critical in ending the pandemic, which has gravely affected the Black and Latino communities.

He adds that he would personally take it and be an example for the church he is leading.

With a $150 Million plan by the Mount Zion Baptist Church for the vaccines, Latinos and Blacks will have a greater chance of getting inoculated and be safe against the COVID-19. It is an excellent move so that churchgoers will be safer when they worship and give thanks.

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