Posted on Apr 3, 2021
As Latinos wait for vaccines in Seattle area, they keep getting sick
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Someone knocks at Isabel Quijano's door in White Center, and when she opens it, there's a man on her step telling her that he just got his Covid vaccine.
Quijano seems pleased — she had helped him book his vaccine appointment, something she's been doing a lot. She’s a community health worker, and, for the past year, she’s been doing whatever her community needs most. Right now, that's help scheduling vaccine appointments.
"The number of people who call me every day — it’s never ending," she said in an interview in Spanish. "They give me their information and everything, and I make their appointments."
Cases are spiking right now in the South Seattle and South King County neighborhoods where many Latinos live. Over the course of the pandemic, Latinos in King County have been almost four times as likely to get Covid as white people, and three times as likely to die of it.
Quijano seems pleased — she had helped him book his vaccine appointment, something she's been doing a lot. She’s a community health worker, and, for the past year, she’s been doing whatever her community needs most. Right now, that's help scheduling vaccine appointments.
"The number of people who call me every day — it’s never ending," she said in an interview in Spanish. "They give me their information and everything, and I make their appointments."
Cases are spiking right now in the South Seattle and South King County neighborhoods where many Latinos live. Over the course of the pandemic, Latinos in King County have been almost four times as likely to get Covid as white people, and three times as likely to die of it.
As Latinos wait for vaccines in Seattle area, they keep getting sick
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PO1 William "Chip" Nagel The late wife’s, German great grand mother was born into a German speaking community of Tiffin, OH in 1849, she passed away in Los Angeles in 1937 without ever learning to speak English.
As a child in Dearborn, MI in 1944, I was frustrated when I could not communicate with the Polish proprietors of the little market on the corner. That is when I developed the theory that within five years of arrival in the US that every immigrant should learn to speak and understand enough English to be able to return to their residence from a distance of five miles away. I continue to feel that should be a requirement for continued residency in America!
As a child in Dearborn, MI in 1944, I was frustrated when I could not communicate with the Polish proprietors of the little market on the corner. That is when I developed the theory that within five years of arrival in the US that every immigrant should learn to speak and understand enough English to be able to return to their residence from a distance of five miles away. I continue to feel that should be a requirement for continued residency in America!
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PO1 William "Chip" Nagel
CSM Charles Hayden My Perspective is a Little Different. Times Change, in Missouri 400 Years ago the Dominant Language was Native American, 300 Years ago it was Spanish, 200 Years ago it was French, 150 Years ago it was German. English is Just a Current Fad. With My Roots Yeah My Grandparents Spoke German, French and English. Before Grandma Emily passed from Alzheimer's She Might start a Conversation in English but Usually finished in German. Still a Significant South and Central American Community here in Kansas City and I'm More Disappointed that I Don't Speak Spanish, I Vacation in Oregon where there is a Serious South, Central American Community and Russian Community and I'm Disappointed I Don't Remember More Russian. As a Youth People in this Country used to be Encouraged Highly to Learn Foreign Languages . You Learn Latin and You've already a Leg Up in Learning French, Spanish and Italian. Before Vatican II the Catholic Mass was Always Done in Latin. No I'm not Busting Others Chops for My Short Comings,
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