CDC sends vaccine missionaries to minority communities

As part of a little-known program, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has deployed missionaries to convince minority communities to get vaccinated, according to a report by The Epoch Times yesterday. 

The CDC commissioned teams from eight universities and gave each team its own bus to travel to targeted communities in their states with high vaccine hesitancy rates. There, the teams promote the COVID-19 vaccine and try to get as many shots in arms as possible using the mobile health unit installed on the bus. 

The partnering universities are the University of Minnesota, Washington University in St. Louis, Montefiore Medical Center of Albert Einstein College, the University of Kentucky, the University of Missouri, Florida State University, and the University of California, Davis. 

The goal has been to teach about the vaccine to Blacks, Hispanics, Native Americans, residents of rural communities, migrant farmworkers and SSAs. 

The CDC has invested $6 million in the program, which is finishing its first year. 

According to the University of Florida’s Catherine Striley, who oversees the project for UF, they have so far vaccinated 1,200 people, which means American taxpayers have paid $5,000 for each vaccination. 

As part of their efforts, vaccine evangelists from each team distribute literature about the benefit and safety of vaccines to the members of each community.  

“If people aren’t sure [that they want the vaccine], then we have educational materials, and our community health workers and the extension agents will talk to them about their particular questions and try to answer their questions and their concerns,” Striley said. “And then…[we] immediately give them the vaccine." 

The buses will also go to community events to preach about the rewards of the vaccine. 

“We’re trying to get vaccines into adult arms,” Striley told The Epoch Times. “That is what the CDC has asked us to do.”  

But it’s not just adult arms. According to Striley, if children ask to get the shot, the missionaries “try to find a way”. 

And it’s not just children. 

Pregnant women often ask if they should get the vaccine. “Which, of course, the short answer is, ‘Absolutely!’” said Striley. 

Perhaps Striley should be giving the long answer. Frontline News reported on new information from Rambam Hospital in Haifa, Israel, showing a disturbing trend towards more stillbirths and miscarriages as women get more COVID-19 vaccine shots.