the vaccination effort starts rolling out, that the farm workers were the first ones to get vaccinated. and all of his wishes were made of reality yes? [ speaking spanish ] it hurts very much. and until this day, we can t get over his passing. but we continue to organize. we continue to organize and mobilize in his honor and the inequalities that we have here, for immigrants that don t have the same privilege that must havous do and we do it in his honor. eduardo, what still remains to be done? how can we all help? well, look, we continue to push forward with telling people that the vaccination is critical. we re proud to, you know, highlight that because of father s efforts, the community of mecca has over 95%
organizing with him, but until his death, i know the day that he they forced him, basically, to get in the ambulance to because we saw him really sick and one of the heads of public health forced him to get in the ambulance, because we saw him deteriorating. he said, no, i m fine, i m fine. this was the last day we saw him. and it was during a testing site at his church. i did speak with him a few days later over phone, but he wanted to know if everything was going well. if the community, if the testing centers were still going on. we asked him, father, take care of yourself, take care of yourself. he said, no, community first. and his loss has been very heavy. but we continue organizing, organizing in his honor, because this is something, homework that he left us behind all of the community that were here in the valley to make sure that there s resources that when the when
and deaths by 89%. according to a new study, the company plans to submit that data to the fda as soon as possible. meanwhile, the devastating effects of covid continue to unfold across our country. today, we re remembering father francisco delvaninos, a catholic priest who tragically died of covid at the age of 58. while there were no public memorials for him, quote, proof of mecca s gratitude towards him are everywhere. and now his congregation is working to protect his community in honor of his legacy. joining me now with more on this is eduardo garcia, an assemblyman from the father s community and the executive director of the legal center, which has done extensive work in efforts to get our community vaccinated. eduardo, tell us a little bit more about the contributions of the father. this is an amazing person who aarrived in mecca, california, from 2018 from compton.
not having access to health care. right away, father francisco, we started organizing with him, bringing resources, bringing organizing food banks, organizing testing centers. he found a way to bring resources to this community that s for a long time been overlooked and overshadowed. and that it doesn t have privilege to many, to many safety net programs. right away, we started organizing with father and others to bring these resources until the day of his death, until the day of his death, he wanted to make sure that his community had the same resources than the other communities than the west side did that had privilege. father francisco was a man of faith, but also a man of community conscience. that he knew that he couldn t just stay at the church preaching. he knew he needed to walk the walk. it is very humbling to have been working with him, to have been