The Tablet March 2, 2021
A man in San Francisco sleeps on the sidewalk March 27, 2020, amid the coronavirus pandemic. (Photo: Shannon Stapleton/Reuters via CNS)
NEW YORK Lorena Melgarejo remembers a time after her husband died that she couldn’t always be there for her three-year-old child because she couldn’t lose her income.
“I had to make the sacrifice to go out into the workplace so that I could pay for rent, pay for the debt that the hospital bills left, and pay for childcare for my child instead of being there to take care of my own child after the traumatic death of my husband,” said Melgarejo, executive director of Faith in Action Bay Area in San Francisco.
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Since the coronavirus started spreading across the globe in late 2019, scientists have been looking for a vaccine. Now that vaccines are proven, it will ultimately be up to each state to determine who will get the vaccine, and when? Yo habia ido al hospital y le decia no te me acerques porque eso duele mucho. Esto te va a tumbar, te va a matar no te acerques ma acerques vete a tu cuarto. Y mi mama se puso a llorar y me decia no me quieres y yo le decia no es que no te quiera ma, porque te quiero no te me acerques por favor, said Macias. ( I used to tell my mom, please don t come close to me. My mom would cry and tell me you don t love me and I would explain to her Mom because I love you, please go to your room. )