Pablo Coronado just happened to go to Guadalajara’s popular Galerias shopping mall on Sunday when he saw a measles vaccination table set up by one of the entrances.
“I wasn’t intending to get a shot,” he told this newspaper, “but I asked the nurse there about it. She said it would be easy and only take a minute.”
She was right. Coronado said that in less than a minute, she had prepared the vaccine and given him the jab. “They didn’t ask for details, and I didn’t even have to sit down,” the student added with a smile, before heading off in search of a new pair of shoes.
Coronado is one of hundreds who received vaccinations at some 70 mobile sites set up across the state last weekend, as Jalisco ramps up what has become one of the most aggressive vaccination campaigns in recent years.
The Jalisco Health Department reported this week that it has administered approximately 1.85 million doses since the campaign began last year, with a clear target of reaching two million in the immediate future.
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