Despite the fact that Naydelin Félix Escamilla, her brothers and her parents were infected with covid – 19 at the beginning of the year, it was waited until this Thursday to overcome the fear of
getting vaccinated.
Already decided, the young woman from 20 years, he was encouraged this Thursday to go to Cal State University Dominguez Hills (CSUDH), a place that in association with the Rite Aid pharmacy installed a clinic to immunize students, teachers and school personnel; as well as other members of the community.
“We are all contagious,” recalled the CSUDH student who studies child development. “He hit my dad harder.” His father, who was a gardener, could not overcome the disease and passed away on January 9.
The objective is to protect students
“Throughout All this crisis and pandemic, we have always been involved in what we call a double mission. One of them has been the health and safety of the campus community and the other has been the academic success of our students ”, expressed to Real America News, Dr. Thomas A. Parham, president of California State University, Dominguez Hills , who considers there is a correlation between the two.
In fact, the Office of the Chancellor of the California State University (CSU) system indicated that they will invite everyone to be vaccinated for complete on campus to be able to return to a face-to-face environment. In CSUDH there are almost 17, 000 students.
“We are simply trying to do our part to encourage and vaccinate as many people as possible,” said the school leader.
“So, the next step proactive we can take is not just inviting people to do it, but rather making it as easy as possible and eliminating any excuses ”
Mobile vaccination clinics emerge when the university begins to repopulate, with first-year students and those who have moved, at a slower rate than expected, to the student residences.
“We’re fine,” added Dr. Parham. “We wanted to make sure that if students are on campus participating in academic work, that they can do it and get the vaccine right here. This is an effort to support students, all staff and faculty. ”
A double tragedy
Carlos Escobar, clinical science student at CSUDH, his wife Carmen and her children of 16, 16 and 12 years yesterday received the second dose of the Pfizer vaccine.
“Everything is fine,” said little Anthony, after waiting for 15 minutes to check for adverse reactions to inoculation. However, his father seemed sore in the arm. “Nothing is wrong with him; that’s how men are… They are loud, ”said Carmen.
But minutes later, she could not hold back her tears when she announced that, due to the pandemic, the last 7 August, his adoptive mother, Estela de Jesús Arana, with whom he lived until 15 years, before returning to the United States, with his biological mother, Carmen Escobar, who has not been informed of this death because she is hospitalized with coronavirus.
“My real mother has 69 years; She has been in intensive care for three weeks, ”said Carmen, who was born in Los Angeles, but her mother sent her to Guatemala at 8 months because she had to work and could not take care of her.
“What is happening is a double tragedy, but with my faith in God I know that I will see my adoptive mother in heaven again and that my mother is going to recover ”, he declared. “She has suffered from high pressure from 20 years; they have it on oxygen, but not intubated. ”
Hospitalizations decrease… deaths increase
In Los Angeles County, the Delta variant of covid continues to wreak havoc with hundreds of daily infections and deaths of people – mainly those who are not vaccinated – despite the fact that the rate of new cases has been on the decline, according to new reports from the Department of Public Health.
“We are seeing a small drop in the seven-day average of cases and in the last week we have seen that the cases decreased by almost 15% ”, the director of Public Health, Bárbara Ferrer, explained to journalists during an online press conference.
“However, with the increase in routine screening during the weeks by come, I think our case numbers will continue to be high. ”
Ferrer said that The county has also seen a slowdown in the number of people hospitalized, but deaths have increased by 6% in the last week, now averaging 18 deaths daily.
“This is a reminder that the virus continues to endanger the lives of many infected people,” he said. “And frankly, they are more tragic in that they are preventable with the safe and available vaccines.”
The county reported yesterday of other 31 deaths; plus 3, 226 new cases and 1, 731 hospitalizations ( 451 in intensive care), According to information from the Los Angeles County Department of Public Health.
“Get vaccinated… or I’ll leave you”
Jasen Ortiz, a Lynwood resident of 22 years old and a biology student at CSUDH, told Real America News that he did not want to get vaccinated, but he did it at yesterday’s event out of love for his girlfriend Ariana.
“She told me: ‘If you don’t get vaccinated, I will no longer be your girlfriend’”, that was the ultimatum that the young Latino received.
Jasen commented that he doubted of the injection from what he saw and heard in an interview on YouTube. “The person they interviewed said that if you got vaccinated, in six months you would die.”
For his part, Diego Murillo, of 18 years old, Bellflower resident and business student expressed that his job unloading trucks in the city of Commerce prevented him from going to a clinic to be vaccinated “and there was no time” but that he finally was able to do it yesterday.
” I’m starting my first year at CSUDH and I want to be protected, ”said student Christopher López, from 19 years, after being vaccinated. “No problem; We should all get vaccinated. ”
In a recent council session with representatives of student affairs, CSUDH authorities made it clear 12 points before the start of class.
“We try to educate them about vulnerability to covid – 19; that the Delta variant is not a joke and that there are people who are trying to overcome science by not getting vaccinated and are ending hospitals wishing they were inoculated, ”said Dr. Thomas A. Parham.
“We have shared with them that, for most of the people who are now in hospitals, with ventilators and receiving treatment, more than 90% are not vaccinated ”, he added.
“The data is overwhelming. For people who weren’t ready to trust the vaccine, the scientists and I understand that for any clinical trial we do, you could get 100, 225, 300 samples of the subject in a clinical trial, but here are millions. Millions of people have already received the vaccine and its efficacy has been proven. ”