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Tarrant County residents stand in line to receive their first COVID-19 vaccine at Southeast Community Health Center, on Jan. 22.
On Friday, more than 100 residents of Southeast Fort Worth received their first COVID-19 vaccination. The patients targeted are considered medically-disadvantaged and from geographical areas hard-hit by the disease.
When 63-year-old Fort Worth resident Jesus Solis received a call from his local clinic telling him he was eligible to get a COVID-19 vaccine, he said it felt like it was now or never.
Hay mucha gente que no quiere. A mi me decían que no la tome. Que es un experimento. Pero yo dije ya que. Este virus ya tiene a todo mundo loco, said Solos, who’s originally from Durago, Mexico, in Spanish. “There are many people who do not want to [get vaccinated]. They told me not to take it and that it was an experiment. But what was I going to lose? This virus has everyone crazy.”