MINNESOTA DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH COVID-19 INFORMATION

4/5/2021 Weekly Resource Updates

MDH

• NEW PHONE NUMBER AND EXTENDED HOURS: COVID-19 Public Hotline: 1-833-431-2053

• Monday-Friday: 9 a.m. to 7 p.m.
• UPDATED: Flyers for COVID-19 Community Testing Events
• Staying Safer during Ramadan 2021 (PDF)
• COVID-19 Vaccine Communication Toolkit
• Now available in Hmong, Somali, and Spanish
• Map of Current COVID-19 Diverse Media Contractors
• Get Tested! (PDF)
• Celebrate Safer (PDF)
• Long-term Care: Visitors and outside services
• Updated Guidance: Visiting Loved Ones in Long-Term Care (Video)
• Mask Do's and Don'ts - For Students (Video)
• Available in Chinese, English, Hindi, Karen, Lao, Spanish, and Swahili
• What You Should Do If You Feel Sick - For Students (Video)
• Available in Chinese, English, Karen, Lao, Spanish, and Swahili
• COVID-19 Online Case Investigation Survey (Video)
• Now in ASL, Audio Described, Amharic, Chinese, French, Hindi, Hmong, Karen, Lao, Nepali, Oromo, Russian, Somali, Spanish, Vietnamese, and Swahili
• How to Take an At-Home Saliva Test (Video)
• Available in Amharic, ASL, English, Hmong, Karen, Lao, Oromo, Spanish, and Vietnamese
• Frequently Asked Questions About How COVID-19 Vaccines Are Made (Video)
• Now in Amharic, Audio Described, Chinese, Hmong, Karen, Lao, Nepali, Oromo, Russian, Somali, Spanish, Swahili, Vietnamese, and ASL
• Act Quickly to Receive COVID-19 Medications (Video)
• Available in English and Spanish
• For Community and Faith-Based Organizations, COVID-19 Vaccine Communication Toolkit
• COVID-19 Vaccine
• COVID-19 Testing
• COVID-19 Community Coordinators

Governor’s Office

• Governor Walz, FEMA Announce Federally-Supported Vaccination Site at Minnesota State Fairgrounds
• Who's Getting Vaccinated?
• Translated Stay Safe MN media
• Vaccine Connector
• Now available in Hmong, Somali, and Spanish
• COVID-19 Vaccinations
• Getting Tested for COVID-19

CDC

• Travel
• Variants of the Virus that Causes COVID-19

Mental Health

• NAMI Resources for the BIPOC Community during the Chauvin Trial
• #StayConnectedMN
• Includes a toolkit available in Hmong, Karen, Somali, and Spanish
• Community Tools

Workshops and Webinars

• 4/7 at 12pm: Racism’s Roots in Medicine & How Implicit Bias Impacts Care
• 4/8 at 2pm: Community Health Workers & Pharmacists: Their Frontline Role in the Response to COVID-19
• 4/8 at 7pm: COVID 19: A Health Forum on Virus Disparities and Why Receipt of the Vaccine is Critical to the Black Community
• 4/12 at 11am: Still on the Journey: MDH COVID-19 Faith-Based Outreach Workgroup Call
• 4/12 at 11am: Equity and Social Justice Lecture Series: Racism and Violence Impacting the Asian-American Community
• 4/13 at 11:30am: Let's Talk: Conversation about COVID-19 with the MDH Disability Unit and Community Partners
• 4/15 at 2pm: MDH COVID-19 Community Partners Call
• 4/15 at 5:30pm: COVID-19 Vaccine Education: Community discussion addressing vaccine stigma and demystifying cultural myths
• 4/16 at 9am: Disparities in COVID-19: Social Justice, Policy, and Ethical Considerations in Vaccinating the U.S. Population
• 4/20 at 12pm: A Strength-Based Approach to Addressing Stress Among Urban Native Youth During Covid-19
• Ramsey County Community Healing Circles

Funding

• Due 4/9: Housing Assistance Navigators RFP

Other

• COVID-19 Youth Testing (Karen)
• Igbo Women League: Minnesota Launches Youth Testing Campaign for School Year
• Minnesota Department of Human Services (Hmong)
• Minnesota Department of Human Services (Somali)
• Minnesota Department of Human Services (Spanish)
• Combat Hate Crime Resources
• COVID-19 Accessible Resources
• National AA and NHPI Health Response Partnership
• Report Discrimination
• Guild: Resources for the Derek Chauvin Trial
• Take Action Against Anti-Asian Racism
• Asian American Federation: Anti-Hate Safety Resources
• Show up: Your Guide to Bystander Intervention (PDF)
• Why you can’t compare COVID-19 Vaccines (YouTube)
• New American Neighbors: COVID-19 Vaccination Hesitancy Multilingual videos
• Smithsonian Asian Pacific American Center #StopAsianHate
• Minneapolis: Trial support and safety
• Communities Combating Hate Coalition

Events/News

2022 Mother's Day Celebration
and 5K/1K Fun Run/Walk

COVID-19 Update

Youth Mentoring and Leadership Program 2021

IgboFest 2021

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