aliyahblackmore
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1 year ago Hi @megzehn the updates on the booster shots and about COVID-19 pages are ready for you. Tomorrow morning I'll confirm with Randi which draft version of the FAQs page I should make changes to. I noticed from the revisions that Danielle started to make updates to this page yesterday.
COVID booster shots page Preview link: http://preview-prod.vfs.va.gov/preview?nodeId=34054 Notes: I removed the third sentence in the featured content box.
About COVID-19 vaccines page: Preview link: http://preview-prod.vfs.va.gov/preview?nodeId=34627 Still waiting on Danielle to confirm a question on this page!
Notes:
- In section “Why to get a COVID-19 vaccine” I removed the bullet point that starts with “When you get a COVID-19 vaccine, you help protect your family, friends, and community”
- I tried moving the note content before the bulleted list, as SMEs recommended, but it didn’t seem to work to have that info before a bulleted list that is telling folks reason why they should consider getting a vaccine. Danielle mentioned that we could find ways to capture the spirit of the change and here's my thinking: I did add in “Here are some reasons to get a COVID-19 vaccine” ahead of the list, as that more directly addresses the header and I think suggests that these are some reasons, but as we note the decision is ultimately up to the person and doesn't impact their care. Additionally, that bolded note is meant to draw emphasis to a piece of info that is related to the section, but isn’t the main message of the section. Let me know what you think about this and you can ping Laura and I if you want to chat more about it. And we'll also just need to let the SME know.
- For their adjustment to the “When you’re up to date” bullet point, I think that we’d want to state what someone can do vs. “not.” I addressed this by adjusting this language to say “or going to different activities.” Open to thoughts here.
- In this same bullet point, I noticed that the bolded text doesn’t say “COVID-19 vaccines” but other bullet points are using it on a first mention. Wondering if we’d want to include that here and if it would be okay to remove “COVID-19” on the second mention? I went ahead and made this change in Drupal.
- Wondering if hospitalization should be switched to “severe illness” here or if that would change the meaning? I noticed that we are using "severe illness" on this page. I left this as is for the time being and I changed “dying from” to “death from” to be more closely aligned with content on this page.
- I adjusted “vaccine” to “vaccines”
- In the “Vaccine effectiveness” section, confirmed with Randi that we should leave the two links at the end in. The screen capture in the ticket and from the SME email have them excluded.
- In the “Vaccine safety” section I added in their suggestion for Hundred of millions.
- In this same section I also added in the suggested new link on vaccine safety, adjusted placement, and added “on the CDC website” since we are linking out to an external page/non VA page.
- In the “COVID-19 vaccine safety during pregnancy and breastfeeding section” I made an adjustment to the links in their new bullet points to be sentence case and to more closely match the header on the CDC page that we link. Both links lead to the same page. Alternatively, if we can jump link to specific parts of the page (i.e. the section on pregnancy or breastfeeding), I would suggest adjusting the links to specify pregnancy or breastfeeding for the appropriate bullet point. I also added “on the CDC website” since we are linking to an external site and made the link in the bullet point about breast feeding sentence case.
- For their new bullet point on breastfeeding, I’m wondering if we need to start the second sentence with “Recent reports suggest…” as that is mentioned on the linked CDC page? I'm flagging this because other sections of this page seem to reference “data” when stating facts about how the vaccine may impact the person getting a vaccine. I left this as is for the time being. I also adjusted “which could help” to “may." Also, and if possible, would we consider adding "protect their babies against COVID-19" to specify what babies are potentially protected from?
Also, an additional note that I noticed while on this page. In the bullet point “Experts believe that COVID-19 vaccines are safe for people who are pregnant…” People who are pregnant is used and the second second goes on to use “pregnant women.” Wondering if this needs to be changed to match the use of “pregnant people” on this page?
I'll update when I've made changes to the Coronavirus FAQs page!
megzehn
RLHecht
Issue Description
We recently got new and updated information from the SMEs we work with for our COVID-19 content. We need to incorporate these changes into our pages and make sure we adhere to VA.gov plain language and style standards.
We can make copyedits to this content as long as we adhere to the accuracy.
COVID-19 booster shots page:
About COVID-19 vaccines page:
Coronavirus FAQs page:
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