Jimmy Chacha was immunized against COVID-19 at one of the mobile vaccination clinics outside the Corona Adventist Church in Queens.
“I chose to get vaccinated since it is the safety for me and that of my whole family. I saw the process so easy: the ID was taken and the nurse injected me. In truth, I did not feel the pain and I think it is something very good, “shared Chacha about her experience.
This is one of the mobile clinics that were vaccinating New Yorkers against the coronavirus during the Weekend of Faith, an initiative of the city government that in three days, from Friday, they were located outside about 50 religious centers of the five counties.
Edna Faulknar of the Corona Adventist Church, said: “It is very important because Corona was the epicenter of the pandemic and our community people need to have access to the vaccine to protect themselves and to protect us all.”
It is part of countless municipal initiatives to ensure that all residents are inoculated and by bringing them to religious sites, considered by their members as sacred, they hope to inspire more confidence, at a time when many are still not convinced to get vaccinated: ” I find it good. The idea for people to motivate themselves is good. “
While someone else added: “I think it’s very good that they do something for the city, for the people; to be safer and more protected.”
At this mobile vaccination clinic outside this church in Corona, young students also came to get vaccinated before the beginning of the school year: “The children have to go to school because we have no choice, we have to do it,” said a mother of family.
Similarly, some 5,000 backpacks were delivered to everyone who was vaccinated during this weekend. In addition to school supplies, there is more information about vaccinations inside.
“I don’t know what else they are going to invent so that they want to be vaccinated. But I don’t understand people, in one’s countries, they would like to be vaccinated and there aren’t any, it’s not enough. Here it is enough and they give them money and other things and not even like that They do not want to be vaccinated, “said one of the beneficiaries.
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