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A first-year medical student at Harvard has started a project to translate critical health information about COVID-19 for non-English speakers. Currently the group has fact sheets in 35 foreign languages. Medical school faculty members at Harvard hospitals review and vet the fact sheet content. The fact sheets are produced in collaboration with Harvard Health Publishing.
For more information: https://covid19healthliteracyproject.com/#
Un estudiante de primer año de medicina en Harvard ha comenzado un proyecto para traducir información de salud crítica sobre el COVID-19 para personas que no hablen inglés. Médicos de la facultad de medicina, miembros del hospital de Harvard ha revisado la hoja y aprobado su contenido. Las hojas so provistas en colaboración con la Harvard Helath Publication
Para información: https://communityhealthliteracyproject.org/spanish
COVID Lessons/Information
6 Coronavirus Scams That Target Your Money and Personal Information – It’s a good idea to make students aware of vaccine-related scams that continue to proliferate across the country. This article from CNN discusses six different examples of vaccine-related scams, so students know how to stay vigilant.
https://www.cnn.com/2021/02/04/us/covid-vaccine-scams-2021-trnd/index.html
COVID-19 Resources – ProLiteracy has a variety of resources to help make online teaching easier during the COVID Pandemic and beyond
https://proliteracy.org/resources/coronavirus-resources#tools_platforms
COVID-19 Resources for Adult Learners - The Florida Literacy Coalition has a webpage dedicated to coronavirus resources, most of which teachers and tutors can use anywhere around the U.S. The web page includes the Florida Literacy Coalition’s coronavirus lesson plan and a tab with vaccine educational resources.
https://floridaliteracy.org/coronavirus.html
COVID-19 Vaccine Hesitancy: 12 Things You Need to Know. This link from Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, Maryland, is best geared toward intermediate and advanced readers. It provides 12 facts about the COVID-19 vaccine, to help those who are hesitant make their decision about getting the vaccine. Each fact has a picture with it, which can help with comprehension and provide additional talking points for students (for instance, you can ask what students see in each picture).
COVID Vaccine Hesitancy - These three resources share information on addressing vaccine hesitancy and why some population groups may be more vaccine-wary.
COVID-19 Vaccine Hesitancy Videos – Georgia State University designed a series of short videos that focus on why you should get the COVID-19 vaccine. What’s different about this series is that it is in 21 languages including Arabic, Mandarin, Spanish and Swahili. Each video explains in just over a minute why getting a COVID-19 vaccine is so important. Using this same link you can also scroll down to find a variety of coronavirus-related teaching materials.
https://education.gsu.edu/research-outreach/alrc/adult-literacy-coronavirus-resource-links/
Myths and Facts About COVID-19 Vaccines – The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has some frequently asked questions about myths and facts related to COVID-19 vaccines.
https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/vaccines/facts.html
Teaching About Vaccines – This is the main link to the SABES lesson materials regarding vaccines. The lesson materials are available in English, Spanish, Haitian, Creole, Chinese, Portuguese, French, Arabic, Russian and Vietnamese.
https://www.sabes.org/content/teaching-about-vaccines-lesson-materials
