Sujal Mandavia, Chief Medical Officer of Carbon Health. “I’ve seen people who have worked for many years, and you can see it in their eyes just how recharged they are when they get to spend time and work on these sites because you’re doing what you signed up to do in health care, but you’re getting to do it at an incredible pace and density that you just don’t get in a lot of other practice environments,” says Dr. Another vaccinator keeps in her cart of shots a toy she got from a kid who thanked her for “saving mommy and daddy.” Momentos like those are helping health care workers survive long, repetitive days, sometimes in the rain or hot sun, at distribution sites. Janci says one of her colleagues wears an angel pin that a patient pulled off her lapel after getting vaccinated. … I had a patient who, in the car after I vaccinated her, had called me back over and handed me an origami heart that she had made, and said, ‘This is for you.’ And I still have it on my bedside table.”Ī nurse at Pasadena City College draws another dose of Moderna’s COVID-19 vaccine. A lot of gratitude, a lot of feelings of relief and hope. “We get a lot of tears here, we definitely do. I can’t believe the vaccine is here,’” she recalls. And she said, ‘I can’t believe it’s here. “Just as I was about to introduce myself, she had sat down and just started bawling her eyes out. Janci recalls one woman who arrived in scrubs between shifts and was emotionally overwhelmed. Photo courtesy of Carbon HealthĬompared to her previous job as an emergency responder working in the back of an ambulance, her interactions with patients are now quicker and more intimate. Janci makes sure she’s easy to pick out of a crowd because she always wears bright blue scrubs and a hat, and puts her hair in braided pigtails.Įlise Janci says she wears blue scrubs, pigtail braids and a hat every day, so she is more recognizable to patients and colleagues.
I want you to do our second, I remember you.’ And that was a great feeling.” “I approached them just saying, ‘Hey what’s up, can I help you with something?’ And they said, ‘You did our first vaccination. On this particular day, Elise Janci, a vaccinator at Dodger Stadium, spotted a couple in their car, waving their hands desperately to get her attention. Photo by Barbara Davidson of Carbon Health Patients drive up to be vaccinated at Dodger Stadium. “That step of getting in her car was something that she did with a happy heart and an open mind, and I think was so reflective of the way that we can stretch and grow and be resilient.” And she was just so excited to get the vaccine,” recalls health worker Norma Bostarr.īostarr says the woman was shaking from nervousness, hopefulness and excitement. She got on her freeway for the first time in three years to drive herself … to her appointment, make sure she was one of the first people in line. An older woman was driving the second car in line.
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One morning at the Dodger Stadium mass vaccination site, the first drivers of the day were just let in, and California had expanded vaccine eligibility to residents ages 65 and up.
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