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Judi Lynn

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Tue Jul 13, 2021, 04:39 AM Jul 2021

Thousands of Ecuadorian families are taking their children to the U.S. for Covid-19 vaccines


Jul 8, 2021

After traveling to Miami for their own Covid-19 vaccines, many Ecuadorian parents are now going back with their children. “My wife and I had our shots in Florida in April and since most of the side-effects happen in the first two months, we wanted to wait and see if they were safe for our boys,” says Carlos Naranjo, a 48-year-old commercial engineer from Quito. “We had no problems and feel comfortable now taking our children so they can be protected too.”

According to the Quito association of travel agents, as many as 200,000 Ecuadorian adults have traveled to the U.S. for vaccines, the vast majority of them to Miami. “Most of those traveling for their shots want to get the Johnson & Johnson since it is one dose,” says Juan Avellán, association spokesman. “They don’t want to wait in Ecuador and they don’t trust Sinovac, which is what most people are getting here.”

Avellán says most parents planning vaccines trips for their children are like Naranjo and wanted to take the vaccines first themselves. “Now, people who have had the vaccines know they are safe, that all the fear talk was nonsense, and they want to have their children vaccinated.”

He says he expects as many as 100,000 Ecuadorian children under the age of 16 to travel to the U.S. for vaccines in the coming weeks. “The parents want to do this before schools starts in September,” he says.

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Thousands of Ecuadorian families are taking their children to the U.S. for Covid-19 vaccines (Original Post) Judi Lynn Jul 2021 OP
It appears that this works very well for wealthy Ecuadorians. Probably no so well for the poor. abqtommy Jul 2021 #1
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