To address disparities in COVID-19 outcomes among Latinos with limited English proficiency in Maryland, our team developed a culturally congruent intervention that coupled a statewide social marketing campaign with community-based COVID-19 services. In the first year, we reached 305 122 people through social media advertisements and had 9607 visitors to the Web site. Social marketing campaigns represent an opportunity to promote COVID-19 testing and vaccine uptake among Latino populations, especially when they are paired with community services that simultaneously address structural barriers to care. (Am J Public Health. Published online ahead of print January 19, 2023:e1–e4. https://doi.org/10.2105/AJPH.2022.307191 )
experiential learning liable to bring a great many people to discover the overlooked existential experience of dyspnoeic patients. We believe that this offers a unique opportunity to raise public awareness of what it means to be constantly aware of, and bothered by, one's own breathing. This phenomenon could be leveraged by foundations and charities that promote lung health or by teams engaged in the field of disability studies as a communication tool about the dyspnoeic experience that is lived by patients afflicted by chronic respiratory diseases, to, in the end, achieve better levels of comprehension and empathy. Meanwhile, let us have a thought for these patients when breathing through a facemask bothers us.
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