Dallas, Texas. – Don López assures that a year ago he was about to lose both of his legs, when doctors allegedly marked the wrong foot to amputate.
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“I told him,” but this foot is good, the one that is sick is the other one “, and he said,” oh sorry. “
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López saved that leg, but ended up without the one with the infection and now uses a walker.
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Eel qualifies to get vaccinated against the coronavirus. You are over 55 years old and also have diabetes. But it has not been registered.
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“We have been very busy, from doctor to doctor,” was the pretext he gave us.
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However, he assured that he would be vaccinated against the virus.
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His brothers in the congregation he attends have offered to register him, take him to the vaccination center when it is his turn to receive the vaccine, but he says he could not handle the long lines and waits.
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With his new iron leg it would be difficult. “I can barely walk, I am like a baby again, starting to walk,” he said.
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Across the street from her neighborhood lives Monina Parrish, a nurse already vaccinated with two doses of the phizer vaccine.
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Parrish says her husband is diabetic, hypertensive and signed up to get vaccinated just this Tuesday night.
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She wanted to send a message to everyone who still thinks about it to sign up for the waiting list.
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“Everyone must get vaccinated to end this. I have worked 12 hours guards, 7 days in a row, caring for serious patients with coronavirus, ”he said.
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Lopez and Parrish live in zip code 75220, one of 17 zip codes in dallas county, now a priority in the vaccination process.
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But only 2.7% of the 650,000 people registered countywide to get vaccinated live there.
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FEMA is helping with the task since Wednesday because the idea is that more residents of those zip codes register.
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But Don López’s wife says she is afraid of the vaccine.
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This Wednesday, Elba García, Dallas Commissioner for District 4, was vaccinated to demonstrate. To the community that there is no need to be afraid.
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“There are many myths about the vaccine. What can covid-19 give you, what is not safe, what if you are pregnant, etc. There are many myths and we are here to tell the community that the vaccine is safe, ”Garcia said.
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The commissioner added that if everyone put fear and excuses aside and did everything possible to get vaccinated, the normality we long for would arrive.
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“We can get out of this pandemic by the end of the summer, by the end of June or the end of the year. It all depends on the decision you make, “he said.
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