June 17 We scored a batch of appointments at one of the hospitals offering Covid-19 vaccinations and managed to vaccinate 50+ of our older kids (18+) and Covid volunteer staff and a number of poor people living in slums who do not have proper identification. Second shot will be in 12 weeks. It's a strange situation in India, with a few large private hospitals securing vaccine doses that they can then charge the public for, and the other vaccines being allotted to government hospitals. The only way, still, to get an appointment is to sign up on a website or an app, and one must have identification. Many destitute cannot get vaccinated because they don't have Internet access or proper identification. Also very difficult is convincing the poor to get vaccinated. We weren't able to bring along several of our kids' parents because rumors are spreading about how dangerous the vaccinations are. But we managed to convince a few of them. Lots of politicians are "guaranteeing" a 100% vaccination rate by year-end in Mysore and India overall. Given the prevailing attitudes and fears among the poor that we talked to, that'll be very tough to achieve. Next, we are attempting to vaccinate some of our homeless and others we know who are living in tents in our area who have no form of identification. Here's Pavan, who with Prajwal and Surya and four of our older girls (Prema, Mamatha, Divya, and Vijayalakshmi), are staying in their college dorms now and happily came to get their vaccinations. 💉😉 🙏🏽 (at Mysore, Karnataka) https://www.instagram.com/p/CQR6K7rIvcQ/?utm_medium=tumblr
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