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It s Complicated: why some Northwest Latinx residents and farmworkers hesitate on Covid Vaccine By
Vanessa Delgadoâs dad didnât want to take a whole unpaid day off of work to get a vaccine appointment.
Sheâs working on her doctorate in Irvine, Calif., but helped her father, Victor Delgado, get a vaccine close to his home in Benton County, Wash.
âIn my own personal experience, itâs been very complicated,â she says. âWorking around schedules of essential workers but then also making sure that, OK, he canât travel too far, he canât go all the way to Yakima on a work day, that would be just too far.â
TRI-CITIES, WA â Beginning Jan. 5, 2021, the community COVID-19 testing site, staffed by the National Guard, will open in its new location at 1709 S. Ely St. in Kennewick (near the Kennewick Irrigation District building).
Benton-Franklin Health District is incredibly grateful for the partnership with the HAPO Center in Pasco for providing an accessible and convenient location for community testing throughout this year.
âAs our COVID-19 response continues to evolve, we remain cognizant and flexible to our communityâs need for testing to be easily accessible and in areas convenient to them,â said Erin Hockaday, operations chief for the Districtâs COVID-19 response. âWe are excited to bring testing back to Kennewick and hope the ease of access, along with our new partnership with the University of Washington laboratory, will provide prompt testing and results to people needing to know their COVID-19 status.â
Norma Soto (second from right), community engagement specialist at Molina Healthcare of Washington, presents a $1,000 donation from Molina to Noahâs Ark, an organization that provides food and shelter to people in need. The contribution was accepted by board president Alan Harris (left), shelter operations director Shealynn Reuther (second from left), and staff member Tabitha Rowe (right).
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