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Once or twice a year, Santa Maria Community Services holds a health fair in Price Hill. This Saturday, alongside the mammograms and food distribution, the fair has something new: COVID testing and vaccinations.
According to the Ohio Department of Health, just over 23% of Hispanic people in Hamilton County have started the vaccine regimen. For non-Hispanic people, the number is more than 30%. Among people who are fully vaccinated, nearly 13% are Hispanic, and 22% non-Hispanic.
Christy Cauley, Santa Maria Community Services marketing and communications specialist, says there is some distrust among Hispanic residents. There are undocumented people out there and they re worried they re going to have to show some kind of ID to get their vaccine, Cauley says. There s a lot of, I think, misunderstanding about the vaccine. A lot of people have the attitude of I m going to wait and see. I m going to let some other people get the vaccine. I m going to see how it goes, and the
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