Vaccines for Seniors Q&A: Allison Barkoff

Thank you so much for joining us. Thank you. Hi, everyone. It's Mandy Cohen. I'm the director of the CDC and I'm here with the assistant secretary for aging, Allison Barkoff. So we always have to remember that protecting your health is a team sport. We need all the help we can get to make sure that we're protecting ourselves. And that's why I'm so grateful to be here with Allison today to make sure we're talking to our older Americans. Older Americans as we get into the fall and winter are unfortunately at higher risk of bad things happening from respiratory viruses like flu, COVID, and RSV. And so we're here together at the Vita Senior Center making sure folks know to get their vaccines and protect themselves right now. Folks are getting vaccinated right over there. So, Allison, just thank you so much for being here with me. Again, like this is so important for us to be working together on this. And thank you so much. Thank you so much, Mandy, for your work and CDC's work to make sure that we are really reaching out to people who are the highest risk. Of course, older adults, people who are, you know, compromised, people with disabilities. And as you said, we have got to work together to reach people. Well, and ACL, which Allison runs, has some great resources for seniors that they need help finding a vaccine, maybe getting transportation. So maybe you could tell them about all those resources that I know you help folks with. We have networks across the country and in every community that can help us. And we have a lot of people that are in the community. I think, you know, we have a lot of people that are in the community that can help folks with disabilities. That can help folks across the country and in every community that can help both older adults and people with disabilities. They need help finding a vaccine or getting transportation to a vaccine site or even in-home vaccinations. You can go to ACL.gov, ACL.GOV to find resources. And we are really excited to do everything that we can to help any older adult or person with a disability who is willing and interested in in getting a vaccine and protecting themselves this fall. All right. You heard it here. Make sure you're getting your vaccines. Thanks everyone for protecting yourself.