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CDC Resources for COVID-19 Vaccination and Underlying Medical Conditions

The Center for Disease Control and Prevention’s High Risk Medical Conditions sub-team – part of the Disproportionately Affected Adult Populations (DAAP) Team of the Vaccine Task Force – has the goal of helping to address COVID-19 vaccine implementation in groups with underlying medical conditions at higher risk for severe illness from COVID-19, which includes many disabled people. They have shared the following COVID-19 resources:

  • COVID-19 Vaccination Toolkits – This webpage contains toolkits for audience-specific toolkits for healthcare teams and community administrators, including community-based organizations. The toolkits contain introduction letters, frequently asked questions, slide decks, fact sheets, and more.  These tools can be adapted to your organization’s scope of work and audience.
  • COVID-19 Toolkit for Older Adults & People at Higher Risk – This webpage contains COVID-19 vaccine and disease guidance and tools to help older adults and people at higher risk and those who serve or care for them.​  This toolkit contains FAQs, checklists, factsheets, posters, social media, PSAs, and more.
  • COVID-19 Vaccine – Recently updated COVID-19 vaccine landing page for consumers and clinicians with materials available in English, Spanish, Chinese, Vietnamese, and Korean.

As a reminder, you can also find updates, information, resources and past alerts about COVID-19 at ncil.org/COVID-19.