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We are fighting back : Texas health care workers receiving vaccines look forward to the end of a tragic year
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Sunday, December 27 2020
Dec 27, 2020
December 27, 2020 7:05 AM
December 27, 2020
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A vial containing the COVID-19 vaccine is prepared in order to be administered to health care workers. (Credit: Jordan Vonderhaar for The Texas Tribune.)
It was a quiet Sunday morning and Dr. Arturo Suplee, a Rio Grande Valley resident doctor, was in his kitchen, flipping eggs and wondering when the call would come.
His girlfriend, Dr. Denisse Ramirez, had gotten her appointment the day before. Now Suplee was nervously watching his phone. Why hadn t it rung?
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| It was a quiet Sunday morning and Dr. Arturo Suplee, a Rio Grande Valley resident doctor, was in his kitchen, flipping eggs and wondering when the call would come. His girlfriend, Dr. Denisse Ramirez, had gotten her appointment the day before. Now Suplee was nervously watching his phone. Why hadn t it rung? Then, as the young doctor sat down to eat his egg sandwich, the phone rang. After months of seeing the ravages of the virus in the hard-hit Rio Grande Valley and losing hope, time and again, that the end could ever be in sight, Suplee made his long-awaited appointment to get vaccinated against COVID-19.
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A vial containing the COVID-19 vaccine is prepared in order to be administered to health care workers. Credit: Jordan Vonderhaar for The Texas Tribune
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It was a quiet Sunday morning and Dr. Arturo Suplee, a Rio Grande Valley resident doctor, was in his kitchen, flipping eggs and wondering when the call would come.
His girlfriend, Dr. Denisse Ramirez, had gotten her appointment the day before. Now Suplee was nervously watching his phone. Why hadn t it rung?
Then, as the young doctor sat down to eat his egg sandwich, the phone rang.