City of Chicago
Dr. Nahiris Bahamon says she gets many questions on the COVID-19 vaccine from patients who primarily speak Spanish, and she laments the scarcity of reliable information for people in that community.
“There’s not a big effort to educate our communities that speak Spanish as a primary language, especially on complex information like science and medical information in a vaccine,” said Bahamon, a pediatrician at Esperanza Health Center in Little Village.
Esperanza Health Centers is a community clinic that serves Chicago’s Latino and mostly Mexican neighborhoods on the Southwest Side, with clinics in Little Village, Gage Park, Marquette Park and Brighton Park.