Healthy Savannah to offer a Public Listening Session on anticipated COVID summer surge

The Center for Black Health & Equity has awarded Healthy Savannah $15,000 to provide and support vaccine access in advance of an anticipated COVID-19 summer surge. 

“The historic Summer Covid surge necessitates vigilance around the disease to avoid a spike like those we’ve experienced in the past,” said Gregory Bolden, program manager of the Center’s Community Initiatives. “The Center saw an opportunity here in Savannah to align our objectives with a similar program offered by Healthy Savannah.”

The Center is known as a leading nationally recognized public health entity that provides solutions to issues impacting African American health.

Healthy Savannah has scheduled an in-person public listening session from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. on Saturday, March 22, at the Pennsylvania Avenue Resource Center. The event, with support from the Center’s grant, will be presented by the Savannah (Ga.) Chapter of the Links, Inc., one of the nation’s oldest and largest volunteer service organizations committed to enriching, sustaining, and ensuring the culture and economic survival of African Americans and other people of African ancestry. 

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