{"id":6431,"date":"2021-02-08T00:00:14","date_gmt":"2021-02-08T05:00:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.clubinsideronline.com\/news\/?p=6431"},"modified":"2021-02-09T18:22:25","modified_gmt":"2021-02-09T23:22:25","slug":"acsm-celebrates-black-history-month-with-special-webinar-on-covid-19-vaccine-adoption-and-the-black-community","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.clubinsideronline.com\/news\/suppliers\/acsm-celebrates-black-history-month-with-special-webinar-on-covid-19-vaccine-adoption-and-the-black-community\/","title":{"rendered":"ACSM Celebrates Black History Month with Special Webinar on COVID-19 Vaccine Adoption and the Black Community"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.clubinsideronline.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/American-College-of-Sports-Medicine-300x88.png\" alt=\"American College of Sports Medicine\" width=\"300\" height=\"88\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-201\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.clubinsideronline.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/American-College-of-Sports-Medicine-300x88.png 300w, http:\/\/www.clubinsideronline.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/American-College-of-Sports-Medicine-200x59.png 200w, http:\/\/www.clubinsideronline.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/American-College-of-Sports-Medicine-800x236.png 800w, http:\/\/www.clubinsideronline.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/American-College-of-Sports-Medicine.png 851w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/>American College of Sports Medicine<\/p>\n<p><strong>INDIANAPOLIS, IN<\/strong> &#8211; February is Black History Month, a dedicated time to acknowledge the contributions of Black people to American society and culture, as well as a time to reflect on the racial injustices and discrimination still taking place today.<\/p>\n<p>As part of Black History Month, ACSM will host a a special webinar from 4 &#8211; 5 PM EST on February 18. ACSM President NiCole Keith, Ph.D., FACSM, will moderate a discussion with vaccine expert Paul Offit, M.D.; and physicians Tina Master, M.D., FACSM; and Alex McDonald, M.D., on the current epidemiology of COVID-19, immunizations and the importance of vaccine acceptance, especially in Black communities, to end the pandemic.<\/p>\n<p>The webinar learning objectives include:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Understand the current epidemiologic trends of COVID-19 and the implications of emerging genetic variants on the pandemic;<\/li>\n<li>Describe the current state of vaccine development, those being distributed and the role that vaccines will play in ending the pandemic;<\/li>\n<li>Learn how to advocate for patients, especially those in Black communities, to maximize vaccine acceptance.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/register.gotowebinar.com\/register\/3583170269244729611\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Register for the This Is Our Shot: COVID-19 Vaccine Adoption and the Black Community Webinar<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><strong>INDIANAPOLIS, IN<\/strong> &#8211; February is Black History Month, a dedicated time to acknowledge the contributions of Black people to American society and culture, as well as a time to reflect on the racial injustices and discrimination still taking place today. As part of Black History Month, ACSM will host a a special webinar from 4 &#8211; 5 PM EST on February 18.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":201,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4],"tags":[43,488,487],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.clubinsideronline.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6431"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.clubinsideronline.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.clubinsideronline.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.clubinsideronline.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.clubinsideronline.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6431"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.clubinsideronline.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6431\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6432,"href":"http:\/\/www.clubinsideronline.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6431\/revisions\/6432"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.clubinsideronline.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/201"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.clubinsideronline.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6431"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.clubinsideronline.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6431"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.clubinsideronline.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6431"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}