[Durham INC] Fwd: Agenda and Invitation to the August 12 Resilient American Communities (RAC) COVID-19 Convocation
Merrick Moore Community
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Thu Aug 12 09:15:22 EDT 2021
Dear Colleagues,
There have been 204 million confirmed COVID-19 cases and 4.13 confirmed
COVID-19 deaths around the world. The actual COVID-19 infections and
deaths are most likely many times these confirmed numbers. Unfortunately,
the vast majority of the human population worldwide do not have acquired
immunity to protect them against the rapidly mutating SARS-CoV2 virus.
Additionally, with breakthrough SARS CoV-2 variants, we do not know how
long our current vaccines will keep us safe from severe COVID-19.
The U.S., which has prided itself on having some of the most advanced
health systems and biosecurity capacities, is still the most COVID-19
impacted society in the world in terms of confirmed cases,
hospitalizations, and deaths. What is this saying about American society
at this time? Even as one of the societies with the most vaccinated
populations, the U.S. is also one of the societies most impacted since July
4 in terms of a sweeping upsurge of Delta variant COVID-19 cases.
A dispassionate, politically-independent view of the spread of the Delta
variant leads one to think that some states with high vaccination rates,
use of masks, good social distancing, and low confirmed cases with few
COVID hospitalizations and deaths must be doing something right. Those
states and communities with low vaccine-acquired immunity, as well as
cultures and leaders standing against masks, poor social distancing, and
exponentially increasing COVID hospitalizations and deaths must be doing
something seriously wrong. Given that the American public has been
provided free vaccines, effective masks, and the information that enables
them to understand the safety and efficacy of the vaccines, mask use, and
social distancing, where are the key solutions that can overcome this key
conundrum for those individuals and communities at risk?
Please join us to talk about the need for an essential change in pandemic
strategy for the remainder of 2021 and into 2022, reflecting on what has
happened in the past year with high COVID cases and deaths in late 2020 and
early 2021. Our hypothesis is that a new bottom-up, community-centric
strategy is now essential to improve pandemic and syndemic resilience
across the United States during Quarter 3 and 4 of 2021 and beyond. The
Resilient American Communities (RAC) unity of effort is working with the
Alliance for Prevention and Response and Geiger-Gibson 2.0 to integrate
this insight and our collective civil society-driven efforts with the
efforts of HHS, the White House, Congress, the National Governors
Association, and the National League of Cities to reduce the impact of the
Delta variant and other emerging variants through hyper-local approaches to
vaccination equity and behavioral and social resistance to COVID even in
the hardest to reach American communities striving to achieve better
health, resilience, and regeneration.
Please join us tomorrow for the next Resilient American Communities (RAC)
Convocation:
11:00 AM - 5:00 PM Eastern Time Thursday, August 12, 2021
Zoom onboarding and networking during AC Convenings will start at 10:30 AM
ET.
Mike McDonald is inviting you to a scheduled Zoom meeting.
Topic: Resilient American Communities Convocation
Time: August 12, 2021 11:00 AM Eastern Time (US and Canada)
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A new calendar of RAC events and training is now available at the above
website.
*Resilient American Communities (RAC) COVID-19 Unity of Effort Convening*
*August 12, 2021*
Agenda
(All Times Below are in U.S. Eastern Standard Time)
*10:30 AM - 11:00 AM Zoom Access and Networking *
*11:00 AM - 12:30 PM Welcome & Initial Discourse*
The morning will begin with updates on the COVID-19 pandemic and syndemic
trends and progress on the Resilient American Communities COVID-19
initiatives. Special attention will be paid to the dynamics that have
driven significant increases in COVID infections, hospitalizations, and
deaths since July 4. We will look at the COVID numbers across states and
communities considering school season start, Delta variant immune escape,
the impact of other variants, CDC's reimplemented mask recommendations in
internal spaces even for those with two doses of COVID-19 vaccine.
Points of Discussion
What are the key factors in reducing cases, hospitalizations, and death in
this phase of the COVID-19 pandemic, with vaccinations not increasing at a
sufficient rate to achieve acceptable levels of herd immunity in many
states and communities?
Why are the southern, midwestern, and western states (such as Florida,
Louisiana, and Texas) being so inordinately impacted?
Why has Region 1 (New England) and the Northeastern communities generally
done far better with vaccinations and infection control than many states
and communities in the Mid-west, West and the South that are now at high
risk of COVID infections?
Are the vaccination rates changing dramatically in hardest-hit states and
communities? If not, why are they so slow to adapt to increasing risks?
How will the Delta, Gamma, and Epsilon variants affect infection rates,
pandemic conditions, and potentially trends in immune escape?
Is it possible to we could see an emerging COVID-19 variant with both
immune escape and high lethality in the vaccinated populations or in
younger populations?
How will RAC efforts enhance vaccination equity and health equity in the
most vulnerable and disenfranchised populations with micro-targeted data
and hyper-local community engagement?
What kind of grants, contracts, and new forms of unity of effort are making
a key difference in resilient American communities?
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*12:30 PM - 1:00 PM Break and Networking *
Informal discussions of the increasing impact of COVID-19 variants and
vaccine-acquired immunity escape, as well as new interests in the origins
of the COVID-19 pandemic in Wuhan, China and climate change preparations in
Resilient American Communities.
*1:00 PM - 3**:00 PM Afternoon Discourse*
Janice Lucas, from the RAC Bay County will facilitate the afternoon updates
and discussions.
Special Presentation: Dr. Lisa Merritt will keynote this session with
discoveries of engaged community solutions within RAC-related MHI efforts
in Sarasota and Manatee counties.
The status of RAC sites around the U.S. will be reviewed in regards to
stages of development and use of RAC systems
Regions, states, and communities will provide updates on the progress of
their work.
*3:00 PM - 3:30 PM Break and Networking*
Ed Shanshala, chair of the RAC Youth Center of Excellence, will facilitate
further discussions regarding outbreaks in younger populations and the
challenges surrounding the start of the 2021 school season with
intergenerational impacts.
*3:30 PM - 4:30** PM **Presentation and Reflections *
Ed Zuroweste will facilitate a discussion about RAC’s approach to the
Geiger - Gibson 2.0 (G-G 2.0) initiative outside the four walls of the
FQHCs. Concepts will be explored for the integration of G-G 2.0 fellows
and collaboratives aligning with CBO and public health initiatives within
the Resilient American Communities (RAC) unity of effort. What could this
mean for improving vaccination equity using landscape analyses and
micro-targeting.
Points of Discussion
What would a Geiger / Gibson 2.0 movement look like with RAC interacting
with FQHCs and the APHA Alliance around the U.S.?
What would a RAC Landscape Analysis initiative look like focused on
vaccination and health equity rapid responses to resolve gaps during the
upcoming stages of the COVID-19 pandemic and syndemic?
What kind of RAC upstream hyper-local data would provide micro-targeting
benefits of vaccinations and other capacities and resources to America’s
most vulnerable communities?
How would thousands of RAC sites interact with thousands of FQHC clinical
sites and their community outreach efforts?
How would RAC Centers of Excellence potentially interact with FQHCs and
Public Health in HHS regions, states and counties?
*4:15 PM - 5:00 PM Closing Remarks*
* 5:00 PM Conclusion of Meeting*
*Post-Meeting Comment Period*—Discussion for those who care to participate
RAC Workgroups focus on the national, regional, state, bioregional and
local rollout of RAC research, plans, policies, procedures, and standards
of practice, including but not limited to the follow areas:
- Communities, Regions, States, Territorial, Tribal Networking (CRSTTN)
Initiatives
- Strategic Planning to Operations
- Vaccination Program
- RAC Systems Rapid Replication and Scaling
- Guidance and Training for New RAC Site Development
- Content Management
- RAC Technical Services
- Data Management
- MPHISE Analytics
- Exposure Notification
- Health System Resilience
- Center of Excellence Development
- RAC Graph and Social Network Analysis; Supernode, Node & Network
Linkages
- Serious Games (Simulated Solutions Exercises, Massive Multi-player
Games)
- COVID-19 Environmental Testing
- FAC Team Formation and Deployment
- Early Identification and Response in Probable Outbreak Areas and Hot
Zones
- Interventions to Create SARS-CoV-2 Cooling and Cold Zones
- Certifying Cooling, Cool, and Cold Zones for Opening up Economic and
Social Activities
- FAC Teams for Rapid Response in Urgent Circumstances
- RAC COVID-19 Community Policies
- COVID-19 Mental Health / Psychosocial Environment / Well-being
- Vital Conditions Mapping
- Syndemic Mission Critical Functions Assessment/Gap Resolution
- Syndemic Cascading Effects
- International Health Security
- Rural and Frontier Communities
- SDOH in Vulnerable Communities
- National Framework for SDOH Common Core & Supplemental Datasets
- Interagency
- Management and Governance
RAC workgroups are now meeting regularly to replicate and scale RAC sites
and activities across the U.S. Please let us know if you have an interest
in the activities of a specific RAC workgroup. RAC workgroup and Centers
of Excellence updates will be provided within the July and August
convenings, in case you have an interest in joining RAC workgroup efforts
or want to work with Center of Excellence teams to advance your RAC sites
or projects.
*Focus Agility Convergence (FAC) Teams* will focus on rapid response and
carrying out improvements to mission critical functions and other RAC
objectives, including for example:
- RAC Vaccination Equity Assessment
- RAC Center of Excellence Development
- RAC Site Development
- RAC Site COVID-19 Risk Communication Associated with COVID
Super-transmission
- RAC Seasonal and Special Event Risk Communication
- RAC Serious Games (virtual community exercises)
- Emergency RAC Site Development
- COVID Hot Spot Management
- Management of RAC Communities in Extreme Vulnerability or Collapse
- Management of RAC Communities Facing Extreme Events Threatening Their
Resilience
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The national COVID risk maps above depict where the impact of the pandemic
will likely affect health, human security and syndemic factors during the
upcoming weeks at the state and county levels given the risk levels
measured this week. In addition to increasing vaccinations and social
equity, it is again time to be proactive about behavioral and social
resistance to COVID-19 infections, transmissions, and translocations
amongst those at greatest risk in the hyper-local levels where COVID cases
are sky-rocketing and where new outbreaks are just emerging. These
achievements will happen most readily now at the hyper-local through trust
relations, such as family and friends networks and broader coalitions of
the willing.
For those ready to engage in more indepth RAC work, please inquire about
RAC site developments, workgroups and RAC rapid response teams at:
http://resilientamericancommunities.org
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A new calendar of RAC events and training is now available at the above
website.
In addition to joining us as you can from 11:00 AM - 5:00 PM Eastern Time
for the August 12 RAC convening, please hold the following dates and times
for upcoming Resilient American Communities (RAC) COVID-19 Initiative
Convocations:
11:00 AM - 5:00 PM Eastern Time Thursday, August 26, 2021
11:00 AM - 5:00 PM Eastern Time Thursday, September 9, 2021
11:00 AM - 5:00 PM Eastern Time Thursday, September 23, 2021
The RAC Convocations are always scheduled on the second and fourth Thursday
of the month.
We look forward to seeing you this week on Thursday, August 12, 2021.
For those of you, just learning about the RAC, see an introductory overview
attached. Also please join us at:
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Mike
Michael D. McDonald, Dr.P.H.
Coordinator
Resilient American Communities RAC) Initiative
Executive Director
Health Initiatives Foundation, Inc.
Michael.D.McDonald at mac.com
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Bonita Green
Merrick-Moore Community Development Corporation
*merrickmoorecommunity at gmail.com <merrickmoorecommunity at gmail.com>*
954.632.2079 (mobile)
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Bonita Green
Merrick-Moore Community Development Corporation
*merrickmoorecommunity at gmail.com <merrickmoorecommunity at gmail.com>*
954.632.2079 (mobile)
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