'It's important for people with disabilities to know that they can turn to a trusted source for accurate information.'
ABC News Chief Medical Correspondent Dr. Jen Ashton explains how vaccines work.Hundreds to thousands of calls come in to the Disability Information and Access Line each week from disabled people across the country with questionsAs one of the first call centers to focus specifically on the needs of disabled people, the federally funded hotline continues to pick up speed, filling a service previously unmet, according to the line's director Sara Clark.
The CDC reports that disabled adults were more likely to endorse the vaccine as protection against COVID, but are more likely to report difficulties in getting vaccinated than did adults without a disability. Some 61 million adults in the United States live with a disability, the CDC reports -- that's about 1 in 4 adults who have some type of disability.
Disabled people have been disproportionately impacted by the COVID-19 pandemic:"the increased risk of poor outcomes from the disease itself, reduced access to routine health care and rehabilitation, and the adverse social impacts of efforts to mitigate the pandemic," the CDC reports. "There was a lot of misinformation about what the impact of vaccines would be on people who had disabilities," Markwood said.
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