Ventanilla de Salud Seattle (‘Health Window’ in Spanish), a health promotion program developed by the Mexican government via the Mexican Consulate in Seattle and operated by Sea Mar Community Health Centers, interviewed the Center’s Research Director Dr. Nathalia Jimenez in Spanish last week to learn about her experience receiving the COVID-19 vaccine.
Dr. Jimenez is an anesthesiologist at Seattle Children’s Hospital–a front-line healthcare worker and therefore eligible to get vaccinated during this first phase.
[Translated from Spanish] “I feel very fortunate for having the privilege of receiving the vaccine. I also feel much more at ease personally, because my risk of contracting COVID-19 is practically minimal. And I feel a responsibility to talk with others and share my experience, and particularly as a person who is part of the Latino community, I think it’s important that we all realize that our community has been disproportionately affected by this pandemic […] and therefore I want to encourage my community to get vaccinated.”
You can watch the whole interview here: