By Allison Steele
Lauren Pierre, 25, gets inoculated with the COVID-19 vaccine at Delaware County Wellness Center in Yeadon on Saturday. Pierre said she wanted to get vaccinated because she is going to work in a health-care profession.
As Lauren Pierre spent 2020 (click here) completing her kinesiology degree from Temple University, and learning what health-care workers have endured since the coronavirus pandemic began, she became more committed to her goal of someday working in an emergency room.
There is a real American. Nothing too dangerous to protect and save lives. Amazing. The other side of that is compassion and dedication are real clowns in this country that don't believe vaccinations are worth the time to get it.
This is what is so frustrating in this country. Health Care Workers have died attempting to save lives. They even became bedside family because patients are not allowed to have visitors. When there is a bike rally and the lives of nurses, doctors, and other staff such as nursing assistants and transport workers are in danger again. How can we tolerate such immature and completely irrelevant behavior by other Americans. THEY DON'T CARE ABOUT OTHERS AND THEY DON'T CARE ABOUT THE COUNTRY! The USA still has the highest infection rate numbers and the highest number of deaths. Nothing makes an impression on these bozos.
So even though she’s questioned the COVID-19 vaccines, wondering whether they were safe and whether getting one would make her part of a test group, her ambition to join the medical field won out. On Saturday she got her first shot of Pfizer-BioNTech at a clinic in Delaware County, and felt immediate relief.
“As I pursue a career in medicine, I have to get it,” said Pierre, 25, who lives in North Philadelphia. “Especially if I’m going to be pushing it on people.”...
