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  • One in five Americans reads at elementary school levels (U.S. Department of Education et al., 2020). These low literacy skills include the technical part of reading (phonemic awareness, phonics, fluency) and the essential component of comprehension, the cognitive process readers use to understand what they have read. This means over 66 million people cannot read or understand most of the health materials that are currently written about COVID-19. If people do not understand what is being said, whether due to technical reading skills or poor comprehension, they will not be able to follow guidelines and instructions, know when to contact their health provider, or how to protect themselves and their families during this pandemic. We have learned that protective COVID-19 behaviors like wearing a mask and social distancing protect both the individual and the community. Adults who read at elementary levels (low literacy) are also likely to have low health literacy which are the skills that allow one to access, understand, and use health information. If we allow adults with low literacy to fail at COVID-19 safeguards and inadvertently share this illness broadly throughout communities, we will all fail. The link between adult education and health literacy is a critical component of improving health outcomes for adults with low literacy. Individual skills such as reading, understanding numeracy issues like risk or probability, locating health information, and verbal communication skills are fundamental to improving health literacy, and can be successfully taught in adult education and English as a second language classes. (xsd:string)
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