City of Baltimore - File #: 09-0165R

• File #: 09-0165R
• Version: 0
• Name: Flu Vaccines - Outreach to African Americans and Hispanics
• Type: City Council Resolution
• Status: Withdrawn
• File created: 10/19/2009
• In control: City Council
• Final action: 1/24/2011
• Title: Flu Vaccines - Outreach to African Americans and Hispanics FOR the purpose of urging the Baltimore Health Commissioner to initiate a campaign, in concert with area healthcare providers, faith-based organizations, Baltimore City Public Schools, and senior care-givers, to inform African Americans and Hispanics of the disproportionate dangers of the flu pandemic to their communities and to encourage African Americans and Hispanics to get vaccinated against both the seasonal and H1N1 (swine) flu.
• Sponsors: Sharon Green Middleton, Bill Henry, William H. Cole, IV, President Young, Helen L. Holton, Nicholas C. D'Adamo, Mary Pat Clarke, Agnes Welch, Edward Reisinger, Rochelle Spector, James B. Kraft, Warren Branch, Belinda Conaway
• Indexes: Flu Vaccine, Resolution

Date	Ver.	Action By	Action	Result
1/24/2011	0	City Council	Withdrawn
12/6/2010	0	The City Council	Reassigned
10/22/2009	0	The City Council	Referred for a Report
10/22/2009	0	The City Council	Referred for a Report
10/22/2009	0	The City Council	Referred for a Report
10/19/2009	0	City Council	Introduced
10/19/2009	0	City Council	Assigned
10/19/2009	0	Public Safety and Health Committee	Scheduled for a Public Hearing

* WARNING: THIS IS AN UNOFFICIAL, INTRODUCTORY COPY OF THE BILL.
THE OFFICIAL COPY CONSIDERED BY THE CITY COUNCIL IS THE FIRST READER COPY.
INTRODUCTORY*

CITY OF BALTIMORE
COUNCIL BILL R
(Resolution)

Introduced by: Councilmember Middleton

A RESOLUTION ENTITLED

A COUNCIL RESOLUTION concerning
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Flu Vaccines - Outreach to African Americans and Hispanics

FOR the purpose of urging the Baltimore Health Commissioner to initiate a campaign, in concert with area healthcare providers, faith-based organizations, Baltimore City Public Schools, and senior care-givers, to inform African Americans and Hispanics of the disproportionate dangers of the flu pandemic to their communities and to encourage African Americans and Hispanics to get vaccinated against both the seasonal and H1N1 (swine) flu.
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On September 29, 2009, a 14-year-old African American girl became the State’s first young casualty, with no underlying health problems to cause death from swine flu. The Department of Health and Mental Hygiene Maryland Flu Watch reports that as of October 6, hers was the ninth death from swine flu. There have also been 217 reported influenza hospitalizations from swine flu alone. Predominant influenza strain information shows that type A (H1N1) or swine flu continues to be the predominant strain of influenza in Maryland.

Black America Web’s Weekly Insider, October 8, 2009, edition sounded the alarm that “Swine flu’s bigger impact on blacks and Hispanics in not being addressed”. The report stated that an analysis of the first H1N1-related deaths among U.S. children revealed that half of those deaths between...