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National Black Church Initiative Sustainable Action Plan to Maintain the Health of the African American and Latinx Communities

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The National Black Church Initiative (NBCI) is currently implementing critical portions of our Comprehensive Engagement Plan as we prepare the African American community to receive the coronavirus (COVID-19) vaccines.

Features of this Plan include education, outreach, the National Flu Campaign (NFC), a Mask Campaign, and a Media Campaign aimed to enhance any state-wide COVID-19 vaccination plans that are submitted to the Centers for Disease Control (CDC).

National Black Church Initiative Sustainable Action Plan to Maintain the Health of the African American and Latinx Communities
The National Black Church Initiative is extremely excited to share with you an Executive Summary of our plan to encourage a hundred million of our brothers and sisters in the Black and Latino communities to get vaccinated against COVID-19. The plan is called NBCI Building a Sustainable Action Plan for the Prevention, Detection, and Treatment of COVID-19 and Eliminating Health Disparities for the African American and Latino Communities, and it calls for cooperation and collaboration between all Black and Latino civil rights and human rights organizations.

NBCI is pleased to be part of The Integrated Bioscience and Built Environment Consortium (IBEC). IBEC has created programs that educate how to successfully mitigate transmission while educating the masses on safe protocols that really make a difference in stifling the unnecessary increase of COVID-19 cases and other contagious pathogens. NBCI is proud to collaborate with IBEC as we guide our churches safely back to meeting in-person.

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NBCI Launched its Comprehensive COVID-19 Plan to Vaccinate over 100 Million African Americans and Latinos

My name is Reverend Anthony Evans and I am the President and CEO of the National Black Church Initiative (NBCI). We are very excited to share with you NBCI’s Comprehensive COVID-19 Plan to vaccinate over 100 Million African Americans and Latinos in the nation. We congratulate and thank all of our front-line workers who have proven their dedication and heart again and again through this devastating pandemic.

The COVID-19 pandemic has devastated and continues to negatively impact the African American church. The Black church has lost tens of thousands of our church members, active pastors, and has experienced increasing death tolls in our smaller to medium-sized churches. We want to work with the CDC very closely to determine the real data of the pandemic’s impact on our church community.

Journal of American Medical Association (JAMA) recognizes NBCI work on COVID-19 .pdf [58kb]

Leveraging a network of 150,000 churches to advance the public's health could prove to be a potent national model for eliminating Black and Latino racial and ethnic disparities in health and health care across the US.

In 2021, NBCI announced a 5-year plan that offers the CDC its 150 000 Black and Latino churches across the US as vaccination centers. The plan will include a national advisory committee of 9 prominent Black and Latino physicians who have evaluated the effectiveness of each COVID-19 vaccine; will leverage approximately 1000 Black and Latino US medical professionals to administer vaccines; and will mobilize several million volunteers to raise awareness among and communicate to underserved communities, provide transportation to vaccination centers, and ensure that communities of racial and ethnic minority populations obtain their second vaccinations (when indicated).

Rev. Evans Immunization - A Moral Challenge To NBCI's 150,000 Churches

Rev. Evans urges Black and Latino church members to get immunized and shows his card illustrating his first immunization shot.

Read "The NBCI Building a Sustainable Action Plan for the Prevention, Detection, and Treatment of COVID-19 and Eliminating Health Disparities for the African American and Latino Communities", which calls for cooperation and collaboration between all Black and Latino civil rights and human rights organizations.

Over 250,000 Black and Latino Churches Express Full Confidence in Dr. Fauci's Leadership and Medical Advice

Since the COVID-19 pandemic, Dr. Facui has educated the world on combating the virus

Rev. Anthony Evans, President of the National Black Church Initiative, states, "Given the devastation of COVID-19 on the African American and Latino communities, we desperately need Dr. Fauci as the chief medical leader in America. African Americans and Latinos, especially African Americans, have died disproportionately from COVID-19 and will continue to die disproportionately because of the gross misinformation that targets African American and Latino communities. NBCI is doing its part by creating VACCNEWS, a one-page explanation of COVID-19 that attempts to encourage every African American and Latino to get vaccinated.

Composite image of Rev. Evans on left and Dr. Anthony Fauci on the right

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Facts and Good News About COVID-19 Vaccines

150,000 Black Churches Support What Black Doctors are saying about the COVID-19 Vaccines
Following a thorough safety review, including two meetings of the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration and the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the pause regarding the use of the Johnson & Johnson (Janssen) COVID-19 Vaccine in the U.S. was lifted on April 23, 2021 for adults aged 18 years and older in the United States.
Why Were the Vaccines Made So Fast?
The vaccines were made so fast because scientists found a new way to make vaccines that works really well called the mRNA method. Many vaccines in the future will use this method and will be made just as fast. That’s very good news!

Nurse Who Received the First COVID-19 Vaccine in U.S., Gets Booster Shot

Sandra Lindsay, a New York City nurse who was the first person in the U.S. to get a COVID-19 vaccine, received her booster shot today.

Stanford at a Black Doctors Consortium testing site in Darby, Pa., on Sept. 9. Stanford has largely self-funded the testing initiative.

In Philadelphia, Black Doctors Bring Coronavirus Tests To Street Corners And Churches .pdf [5.63mb]

When the coronavirus arrived in Philadelphia in March of 2020, Dr. Ala Stanford hunkered down at home with her husband and kids. She's a pediatric surgeon with a private practice, and staff privileges at suburban Philadelphia hospitals.

Stanford sprang into action. Her mom rented a minivan, while Stanford started recruiting volunteers among the doctors, nurses and medical students in her network. She got testing kits from LabCorp, where she had an account through her private practice. By May, it wasn't unusual for the Black Doctors COVID-19 Consortium to test more than 350 people a day.

In the younger working-age group, 18-29 years, racial differences are greater with Covid killing Blacks and Hispanics more than three times as often as Whites, Native Americans almost nine times as much

The Pandemic Marks Another Grim Milestone: 1 in 500 Americans Have Died of Covid-19 .pdf [5.63mb]

At a certain point, it was no longer a matter of if the United States would reach the gruesome milestone of 1 in 500 people dying of covid-19, but a matter of when. A year? Maybe 15 months? The answer: 19 months.

While covid's death toll overwhelms the imagination, even more stunning is the deadly efficiency with which it has targeted Black, Latino, and American Indian and Alaska Native people in their 30s, 40s and 50s.

The Coalition of Churches & Community U.S.A. writes a letter of support for the National Black Church Initiative (NBCI) and NBCI's Sustainable Action Plan to Maintain the Health of the African American Community 2020-2025: COVID-19: Eradicating Underlying Disparities in Healthcare to vaccinate 106 million Blacks and Latinos against COVID-19. This plan is implemented under the leadership of their President and CEO, Reverend Anthony Evans.

Dr Susan Moore Last Words Before Dying From COVID and Neglect

Dr. Susan Moore was an African American physician who developed COVID. She made a chilling and heartbreaking video before she died documenting her mistreatment. Her last words were chilling. "I have to talk to somebody. Maybe the media."

Cover image of Statistical and Sociological Impact document

Statistical and Sociological Impact of the Coronavirus on African and Multi-Ethnic Communities If Left Unabated .pdf [3.15mb]
Please check out CDC guidelines -- Rev. Anthony Evans, M.Div

The National Black Church Initiative Data and Information Committee Independent, Non-Scientific Community-Based Statement on the Efficacy and Safety of the COVID-19 Vaccines for Pfizer, Moderna, and Johnson & Johnson .pdf[278kb]

The National Black Church Initiative (NBCI), a coalition of 150,000 Black and Latino churches, has assembled a group of nine Black and Latino physicians to assess the safety and efficacy of the Pfizer, Moderna, and Johnson & Johnson vaccines.

They concluded, and we agree, that the Pfizer, Moderna, and Johnson & Johnson vaccines are both efficacious and safe, and that it is crucial that members of African American and Latino communities get vaccinated as soon as possible to keep them from being hospitalized with COVID-19 and dying in record numbers as they have over the past year.

NBCI COVID-19 Data and Information Committee

Dr. Joseph Webster, MD – Chairman
Dr. William Strudwick, MD
Dr. Anthony Ibe, MD
Dr. Lisa Fitzpatrick
Dr. Walter Faggett, MD
Dr. Fabian Sandoval, MD
Dr. Fuentes-Affick, MD
Dr. Glenn Flores, MD, FAAP
Dr. Mario F. Pacheco, M.D