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In Los Angeles, the frantic quest for "vaccine hunters"

2021-03-08T16:10:54.828Z


REPORT - Citizens in search of vaccines rush to the vaccination center of the Kedren clinic, known for several weeks to distribute doses at the end of the day. Governor Gavin Newson would like to benefit those most affected.


Several dozen people arrived at dawn, folding chairs, sleeping bags, tents and computers under their arms, prepared to end their night and then spend an endless day on the pavement.

Around 11 a.m., their number quadrupled.

A queue of several tens of meters formed on the sidewalk, overflowing on Gilbert-Lindsay Park.

The 41st Street of this poor, historically black suburb of Los Angeles, now half Hispanic, has rarely seen such a parade, and moreover of people from Hollywood or Santa Monica who in other circumstances would never have ventured here. .

"I've been coming for three days in the hope of being vaccinated," says an antique dealer in her forties.

But if that doesn't work today, I give up.

After all, I do not belong to a group at risk.

I would just like to resume a normal life and, above all, to be able to travel. ”

I refuse to waste even a drop of this vaccine.

But these inequalities are very frustrating

Dr Jerry Abraham, Director of the Kedren Clinic in Los Angeles

In recent weeks, a rumor has circulated in the city: at the end of the day, the Kedren clinic,

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Source: lefigaro

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