{"id":1578,"date":"2021-03-04T18:57:26","date_gmt":"2021-03-04T18:57:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/rosen-testing.senate.gov\/2021\/03\/04\/rosen-co-sponsors-legislation-to-address-racial-health-disparities-during-covid-19-pandemic-2\/"},"modified":"2022-07-13T20:23:22","modified_gmt":"2022-07-13T20:23:22","slug":"rosen-co-sponsors-legislation-to-address-racial-health-disparities-during-covid-19-pandemic-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rosen.senate.gov\/es\/2021\/03\/04\/rosen-co-sponsors-legislation-to-address-racial-health-disparities-during-covid-19-pandemic-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Rosen Co-Sponsors Legislation to Address Racial Health Disparities During COVID-19 Pandemic"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-size:11pt\"><span style=\"font-family:Calibri,sans-serif\"><b><span style=\"font-size:14.0pt\"><span style=\"font-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;,serif\">WASHINGTON, D.C.<\/span><\/span><\/b><span style=\"font-size:14.0pt\"><span style=\"font-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;,serif\">&nbsp;\u2013 Today, U.S. Senator Jacky Rosen (D-NV), a member of the Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor and Pensions (HELP), announced her co-sponsorship of the <i>COVID-19 Health Disparities Action Act of 2021<\/i>, legislation that would establish and support public awareness campaigns specifically directed at racial and ethnic minority communities with the goal of increasing testing and vaccination outreach efforts to groups that have been disproportionately affected by COVID-19.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size:11pt\"><span style=\"font-family:Calibri,sans-serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14.0pt\"><span style=\"font-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;,serif\">\u201cLongstanding inequalities in access to employment, health care, housing, and more have resulted in communities of color being disproportionately affected by the pandemic,\u201d <b>dijo el Senador Rosen.<\/b> \u201cThis legislation will help address racial and ethnic health disparities by supporting public awareness campaigns and vaccination efforts to our most affected communities. I will continue working to combat the inequities within our systems and protect the well-being of all Nevadans.\u201d<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size:11pt\"><span style=\"font-family:Calibri,sans-serif\">&nbsp;<\/span><\/span><span style=\"font-size:11pt\"><span style=\"font-family:Calibri,sans-serif\"><b><u><span style=\"font-size:14.0pt\"><span style=\"font-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;,serif\">BACKGROUND:<\/span><\/span><\/u><\/b><span style=\"font-size:14.0pt\"><span style=\"font-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;,serif\">&nbsp; Specifically, the <i>COVID-19 Health Disparities Action Act of 2021 <\/i>would:<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"font-size:11pt\"><span style=\"font-family:Calibri,sans-serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14.0pt\"><span style=\"font-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;,serif\">Require HHS to develop an action plan to address the disproportionate impact of COVID-19 among racial and ethnic minority, rural, and other vulnerable populations; <\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size:11pt\"><span style=\"font-family:Calibri,sans-serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14.0pt\"><span style=\"font-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;,serif\">Ensure that contact tracing efforts are tailored to communities\u2019 racial and ethnic diversity;<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size:11pt\"><span style=\"font-family:Calibri,sans-serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14.0pt\"><span style=\"font-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;,serif\">Fund public awareness campaigns about COVID-19 symptoms, testing, and vaccines to ensure that minorities and those most severely impacted by COVID-19 are targeted with culturally competent and multilingual messaging.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"font-size:11pt\"><span style=\"font-family:Calibri,sans-serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14.0pt\"><span style=\"font-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;,serif\">Rosen supported this same legislation last Congress. <\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"text-align-center\"><span style=\"font-size:11pt\"><span style=\"font-family:Calibri,sans-serif\">&nbsp;<\/span><\/span><span style=\"font-size:11pt\"><span style=\"font-family:Calibri,sans-serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14.0pt\"><span style=\"font-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;,serif\"><span style=\"color:black\">###<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>WASHINGTON, D.C.&nbsp;\u2013 Today, U.S. Senator Jacky Rosen (D-NV), a member of the Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor and Pensions (HELP), announced her co-sponsorship of the COVID-19 Health Disparities Action Act of 2021, legislation that would establish and support public awareness campaigns specifically directed at racial and ethnic minority communities with the goal of increasing [&hellip;]<\/p>","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[18],"class_list":["post-1578","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-press_release","tag-health-care"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v24.9 - 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