Public Health is for Everyone An inclusive planning toolkit for public health professionals

V-safe is a smartphone-based tool that uses text messaging and web surveys to provide personalized health check-ins after you receive a COVID-19 vaccine. Through v-safe, you can quickly tell CDC if you have any side effects after getting the COVID-19 vaccine. Depending on your answers, someone from CDC may call to check on you and get more information. V-safe will also remind you to get your second COVID-19 vaccine dose if you need one.

Some people may be concerned about getting vaccinated now that COVID-19 vaccines are available in the United States. While more COVID-19 vaccines are being developed as quickly as possible, routine processes and procedures remain in place to ensure the safety of any vaccine that is authorized or approved for use. Safety is a top priority, and there are many reasons to get vaccinated. View this summary of the benefits of COVID-19 vaccination based on what we currently know. CDC will continue to update this page as more data become available.

Now that there are authorized and recommended COVID-19 vaccines in the United States, accurate vaccine information is critical. View this website to find helpful facts bout the COVID-19 Vaccine.

Some racial and ethnic minority groups are disproportionately affected by COVID-19. View this site to learn about underlying health and social inequities that can put many racial and ethnic minority groups at increased risk of getting sick, having more severe illness, and dying from COVID-19.

This resource is an informational video about the COVID-19 vaccine.

This resource is a one page plain langage informational sheet about COVID-19 prevention and the vaccine. 

In the recent months, the US has experienced record-breaking highs of new coronavirus cases and deaths in nearly every state across the country, and new overall cases and deaths have been higher in January 2021 than at any other point in the pandemic. Research suggests that increased community-level cases are associated with increased long-term care (LTC) cases. A rise in cases in LTC facilities (LTCFs) is particularly concerning, given that those who live in LTCFs are more vulnerable to severe illness and death from the virus than the general population. This analysis assesses when new LTCF cases and deaths were highest in states across the country, as well as how national trends in LTCF COVID-19 cases/deaths compare to national trends in overall COVID-19 cases/deaths. 

This resource is a plain language factsheet with information about the COVID-19 vacccine and other prevention methods for disability communities.

This resource is a social story for people with intellectual and developmental disabilities that provides information about the COVID-19 vaccine and prevention strategies.

COVID-19 is the reason you have not been able to do all of the things you like to do, like meet with friends and family or go to day programs and work. People with developmental disabilities living in group homes will be some of the first to get the COVID-19 vaccination, but soon everyone will be able to get it. Read this infographic to learn more about the COVID-19 vaccine in plain language.