Libby Guthrie, Executive Director, MCAVHN Care and Prevention Network, Mendocino County, CA

Aloha! Thaddeus Pham (he/him), Hep Coordinator for Hawaii Dept of Health, and Co-Director of Hep Free Hawaii :)

Dave Butterworth (he/him) Project Officer, Division of Viral Hepatitis, CDC

Hi! Everyone.. I'm Mun from Hope Center, St. John Riverside Hospital, Yonkers, New York.

Brittany Gross (She/her), Viral Hepatitis Prevention & Services Supervisor, Indiana Dept. of Health

Aloha! Peter from the CORE Center Chicago, IL

Kristin Schmith, Clinic Coordinator and Health Navigator for MCAVHN Care and Prevention Network, Mendocino County, CA

Hi Everyone! Robin Lord Smith, NVHR Patient Advocate Advisor, VP Hep C Assoc/HELP4HEP Peer Counselor, Operations Mgr., etc.

Hi! Deb Graner NVHR Patient Advocate from KY. I've gotten my 1st vaccine.

Bill Remak, Senior Advisor to the Global Immunization Action Network Team - www.GIANT-int.org wmremak@iahtf.net

hey y'all -- christine w/ vital strategies / city of new haven (harm reduction coordination). thanks for the webinar!

Hello, Annie Peterson-Lewis, Nurse Consultant with the State of Alaska DPH PHBPP

Thanks for joining, everyone! Feel free to share your questions, comments and concerns (or those you've heard from your community) in the chat at any time.

HI everyone, Richard So - Exec. Director of SF Hep B Free- Bay Area - great to be here.

HI EVERYONE Ivette Peer Outreach Worker

If you haven't already done so, feel free to introduce yourself in the chat :) you can also share questions in the main chat or send them directly to me.

Hi I’m John, a health educator with the syringe access services department with the San Francisco AIDS Foundation

nick Indiana Recovery Alliance and Urban Survivors Union

Howdy y'all, this is Rick J Nash of HCVME and this is solid info!

Rose Burrell. Baltimore County DOH. Command Staff and Operations for Vaccine Distribution and RN for Harm Reduction.

Good evening everyone! My name is Wanda Commander- long-term thrive 35+and from Baltimore, MD. This is quite informative and answers those skeptical and hesitant about the vaccines available efficacy.

Thank you, Great information !

IF YOU HAVE HAD COVID HOW LONG DO YOU HAVE TO WAIT TO BE VACCINATED

What concerns, if any, are there about people with previous allergic reactions to medications or other allergens?

YAY! thanx

C.N. Gordon, Founding Director, Help & Education for Liver Patients (HELP!) - will slide set be sent after webinar? I got bumped during the meeting and missed some.

Yes, slides and recording will be shared

Is it possible to have the slides sent to us via email?

curious what folks are finding are the best messaging frames for people who use drugs? (for short-message materials vs longer 1:1 conversations)

Thank you Adrienne. My email is mhar@riversidehealth.org

Sure thing, thanks Mun

there is a lot of confusion and trust issues surrounding the vaccine in PWUD communities. Such as... is one vaccine better than the other. Will the virus affect my DNA... explain the "fast track" the FDA used , it's suspicious. These are from my participants and PWUD peers

totally, about half of the folks SSPs are seeing feel the same re trust issues

I was actually concerned that not getting side effects means it isn't working as well

Both shots; just a sore arm

"it's up to you" is from the ad council: https://adcouncilvaccinetoolkit.org/messaging

Thanks Christine!

How do we convince/explain in lame man terms that the vaccine does not affect the viral load, like increase the viral load and make them weaker, like in their mind, the vaccine will "clash" with the HCV and HIV virus.

So glad you're here!!

thanks christine

The AASLD Covid-19 and the Liver Task Force is working on a patient-facing document. I'm helping to write it. Stay tuned!

https://www.aasld.org/sites/default/files/2021-02/2021-COVID19WebinarSlideDeck-January28.pdf

IDSA has a nice piece for people living with HIV: https://www.idsociety.org/covid-19-real-time-learning-network/vaccines/vaccines-information--faq/

Some message frames that might resonate for people who use drugs include altruism (if you're protected through vaccination, you're doing your part to keep your peers safe from COVID) and fairness (we don't want the health care system to leave PWUD out/behind)

Great ! Andrew. Good to know... Thank you!

Beautiful point, Daniel!

thanks daniel, fairness is one that hasn't come up in my convos yet

THANX ALL! Love to All!

Thank you all, it's a great short and precise and very helpful , solid information to understand COVID and the vaccines in a nut shell. Thank you

I participated in the CDC V-Safe program, and it was really easy to use and felt good contribute to the data.

Sorry Adrienne, What's the ;last webinar that you mentioned about PWUD and the vaccine?

It's the Community Education Group presentation on this slide

Crackdown Podcast

The recording and the resources will be available on the NVHR website. Please come browse our new format and consider joining #voices4hep while you're there.

Ok, Thanks.

thank you so much

Great job

Thanks everyone!

thanks y'all

Thank you and stay safe!

Thank you all for participating and your great questions!

thank you