COVID-19 VACCINATION MESSAGING

Below are messages developed by a partnership between the University of Iowa Prevention Research Center for Rural Health, Iowa Immunizes, and Iowa Public Health Association to help in the promotion of COVID-19 vaccinations among Iowa residents in Micropolitan communities. We thank our review panel who assisted in looking over and providing input and feedback on all messages. For each message, we have the English version and selected language translations by community members in Iowa micropolitan communities.

DELTA VARIANT:

Delta Variant Social Media Toolkit

Your Life is Getting Busy English

Text 1: “Your life is busy. Getting the COVID-19 vaccination NOW will help make sure that you don’t have to slow down!”

The Delta Variant is moving quickly_Karen

Text 2: “The Delta Variant is moving quickly, is highly contagious and makes people sicker. Beat it by getting vaccinated at you

Unvaccinate people in Iowa Somali

Text 3: “Unvaccinated people in Iowa are getting sick with the highly contagious delta variant. Go to your local pharmacy today

FULL APPROVAL OF PFIZER VACCINE:

One Pager on the Difference between FDA approval and Emergency Use Authorization

Full Approval Social Media Toolkit

Vaccine Approved 2

Text 1: Get your fully FDA-approved COVID-19 Vaccine TODAY? Free at your local pharmacy!

Vaccined Approved

Text 2: Join the 205 million people who are vaccinated. Get your FDA-approved free COVID-19 vaccine today!

OMICRON VARIANT:

Omicron Variant Social Media Toolkit

Omicron Graphic Spanish

Text 1: No one likes being forced to do anything. You have a choice. Most COVID deaths are among unvaccinated Iowans. What do yo

Omicron Graphic 2 Tingriya

Text 2: We can’t let our rural communities be left behind! Rural residents are dying from COVID-19 at a higher rate than those l

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ADDITIONAL TRANSLATION RESOURCES

Below are folders with translated documents and resources our team put together in OneDrive folders related to COVID-19 vaccination. These languages were requested by our partners in micropolitan communities across Iowa. Each folder contains the documents in English as well for reference of the material covered.

Iowa Catholic Conference and the four Catholic Dioceses of Iowa have created a series of videos with starring Iowa residents encouraging COVID-19 vaccinations. English and Spanish videos can be seen on this site.

SALUD!, a multicultural health coalition of Storm Lake, Iowa, made a video in both English and Spanish encouraging COVID-19 vaccination.