This week marks the grand opening of the first independent comprehensive trans healthcare center nationwide: “Transhealth Northampton”! Dallas Ducar, one of HOCC’s Board members, is the founding CEO of Transhealth Northampton. Transhealth Northampton (THNH)was...
We Want You To Know: The CDC reports, “More Time Needed to Assess Data and Risks on Johnson & Johnson Vaccine Pause.” The advisory committee for the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention met...
We Want You to Know: Yesterday the CDC and the FDA have recommended vaccine providers to pause on administering the J&J vaccine As of April 12, nearly seven (7) million J&J doses have been...
COVID-19 has created so much stress and uncertainty in our lives that nearly everything has turned upside down. Even now, despite having vaccines available, we have new anxiety about how and when we will...
The Cambridge Health Alliance (CHA) steps up this week and shares an essential message to start an open and honest vaccine conversation. Please take a moment to listen to CHA providers talk about our...
We Want You To Know: Key Things to Know About COVID-19 Fact: Your best protection from COVID-19 is a combination of knowing all you can about COVID-19, knowing the science-based facts, wearing a mask,...
OMH Announces Theme for National Minority Health Month: #VaccineReady The HHS Office of Minority Health (OMH) has selected Vaccine Ready as this year’s NMHM theme. The COVID-19 pandemic has had a disproportionate impact on...
COVID-19 vaccines are effective at protecting you from getting sick. Based on what the CDC reports about COVID-19 vaccines, people who have been fully vaccinated can start to do some things that they had...
Based on the CDC recommendations: It’s important to know “What’s Changed” if you’ve been fully vaccinated and “What Hasn’t Changed” for now, if you’ve been fully vaccinated. To be “fully” vaccinated What’s Changed? If...
According to the CDC, people are considered fully vaccinated when: 1) 2 weeks after their second dose in a 2-dose series, like the Pfizer or Moderna vaccines, or 2) 2 weeks after a single-dose...