Chatham Vaccine Providers Work To Ensure Vaccine Equity for Hispanic Residents
When Chatham Hospital’s Jesus Ruiz became the first person — and first Latino — in the county to get vaccinated on Dec. 16, UNC Health made its stance clear: vaccine equity and access would be top priority.
“It’s very important to get the coronavirus vaccines,” Ruiz said in a Spanish-language video Chatham Hospital shared on Facebook a week later. “In part it’s another weapon against this virus that unfortunately has devastated our community, so I recommend that everyone get vaccinated when the vaccine becomes available to all of us.”