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* '''PBEM (Portland Bureau of Emergency Management):''' The City of Portland’s lead bureau for disaster response. | * '''PBEM (Portland Bureau of Emergency Management):''' The City of Portland’s lead bureau for disaster response. | ||
* '''PMP (Portland Mask Project):''' A project of the ICRT staffed and run by volunteers to produce masks for community partner organizations during the pandemic. | * '''PMP (Portland Mask Project):''' A project of the ICRT staffed and run by volunteers to produce masks for community partner organizations during the pandemic. | ||
* '''VAP (Vaccine Access Project):''' A project of the ICRT staffed and run by volunteers to arrange vaccinations for elderly and | * '''VAP (Vaccine Access Project):''' A project of the ICRT staffed and run by volunteers to arrange vaccinations for elderly and homebo | ||
== | === COVID-19 and Health Equity === | ||
The Centers for Disease Control confirmed the first case of SARS-CoV-2 infection, known as COVID-19, in the United States on January 21, 2020. At the time of this writing on June 1, 2022, COVID-19 has since resulted in 131,000 infection cases, 5,914 hospitalizations, and 1,219 deaths in Multnomah County.[i] Though the pandemic continues, the City of Portland’s Emergency Coordination Center (ECC) activated only during the acute pandemic phase from March 9, 2020, to September 30, 2021; a total of 18 months and 21 days. | |||
The scale of the COVID-19 pandemic in terms of fear it spreads, disruption it causes, and lives it takes has not been seen in Portland on such a scale since the “Spanish Flu” pandemic in 1918.[ii] Despite COVID-19’s novelties the pandemic conforms to at least one predictable quality shared with nearly all disasters: historically underserved communities experience disproportionate impacts.[iii]<sup>,[iv]</sup> The pandemic causes immigrants and non-English speakers, BIPOC communities, the elderly, persons with disabilities, and | |||
----[i] ''Regional COVID-19 data dashboard.'' (2020, March 30). Multnomah County. Retrieved June 1, 2022, from <nowiki>https://www.multco.us/novel-coronavirus-covid-19/regional-covid-19-data-dashboard</nowiki> | |||
[ii] Kenck-Crispin, D. (2020, March 24). ''A Century Ago, Portland Faced a Health Crisis That Now Sounds Eerily Familiar.'' Willamette Week. Retrieved June 1, 2022, from <nowiki>https://www.wweek.com/culture/2020/03/24/a-century-ago-portland-faced-a-health-crisis-that-now-sounds-eerily-familiar/</nowiki> | |||
[iii] Davidson, T., Price, M., McCauley, J., & Ruggiero, K. (2013). Disaster Impact Across Cultural Groups: Comparison of Whites, African Americans, and Latinos. ''American Journal of Community Psychology'', 2013(Sep), 97–105. <nowiki>https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4386718/</nowiki> | |||
[iv] ''People with Disabilities.'' (n.d.). Center for Disaster Philanthropy. Retrieved June 1, 2022, from <nowiki>https://disasterphilanthropy.org/resources/people-with-disabilities/#:~:text=persons%20with%20disabilities.-,Key%20Facts,higher%20than%20the%20general%20population</nowiki>. | |||
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