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A massive, walk-in vaccination in the Poblenou neighborhood runs out of stocks in half an hour and registers quilometric queues
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The early riser, a twenty-year-old who has appeared at the CAP at four in the morning
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It has been planted at the gates of CAP Ramón Turró (Barcelona) at four in the morning. Her name is Adriana and she is the twenty-year-old who has been the first young woman to be vaccinated in a pilot experience of a mass vaccination without an appointment. He was followed by some young people who have spliced a night of partying. “They seem to be selling tickets to a Justin Bieber concert,” jokes Marina, a 17-year-old student who has gotten up to seven in the morning to get a dose of the Pfizer vaccine. The queues went around the block and the surrounding streets, and the thousand appointments for the thousand vaccines that the toilets had were exhausted in half an hour. The last of the line, knowing that there were no doses for them, remained two hours later. “Surely there is someone who fails,” they pleaded.
“We are busted, we can’t take it anymore, but we know that the only way out of all this is vaccination, and that is why we ask the Generalitat to do this vaccination marathon without prior appointment “, says the head of the CAP, Ester Julve, which on Wednesday moved heaven and earth to try this pilot experience on Saturday. “We are already in a fifth wave of teenage infections and we have to stop it,” insists the health service. The event was barely announced publicly, but the message has spread like wildfire on social media. Mass vaccination was scheduled from ten in the morning to eight at night. In half an hour they have distributed all the appointments. “We will eat at home,” says a health worker.
Stampede at the subway exit
The first arrived at dawn. At eight o’clock, with long queues, there was a real stampede. “People ran out of the subway to get a place in the queue,” says Valentina, another young woman who managed to get vaccinated. Some hang out sitting on beach chairs, others playing cards. Minors, accompanied by their parents. The stamp resembles a ticket queue for a music superstar at the Olympic stadium. This time the idol is called Pfizer, the vaccine against Covid 19 that will probably give a break to all of society and allow a summer like the old ones for young people.
“I come from Masnou, a friend called me at seven in the morning and at half an hour he was already here,” he says. Marc Gisbert, a 29 year old boy. With his hand he holds the ticket that accredits him to be vaccinated. “It is the most precious thing I have in my hands”, has a smile hidden behind the mask. “Today I have tickets to go to Canet Rock, and next week to the Cruïlla Festival. After Sant Joan I know many people who have had to isolate themselves. With the vaccine I will go calmer,” he says. In your group is also Francesc Orriols, from Sabadell. “I had time to get vaccinated in Girona next week, but it gives me a huge stick to go there,” he explains. However, he is willing to sell his appointment for the modest price of 150 euros, there is also resale here.
Applause from the elders
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Right in front of the queue is a residence for the elderly. Some of the residents have taken to the streets to congratulate the young people who have been loaded with patience under the scorching sun to get vaccinated. “I am very happy and happy that you are here to get vaccinated, although this should have been mounted before“says Magda Giménez an 83-year-old woman who together with her husband managed to get vaccinated at the end of January. She approaches a 26-year-old couple who have been in line for five hours to thank them.” We live in Sant Just Desvern but I am from Mallorca and she from Andalusia and we don’t have a health card, this today is going great for us, “says Javi.” Until we get vaccinated, we won’t leave, “says Marta, sitting on a camping chair.
Laia Carreras, a 16-year-old girl has missed an appointment to get vaccinated. “We came at nine and it was already bursting. But surely someone will crack and we are lucky,” he says optimistically. In front of you is Ingrid Rovira, a 15-year-old girl who has the thousandth date. He arrived at nine in the morning with his parents and almost ran out of vaccine. “I don’t want to catch it this summer,” replies the girl, eager to receive Pfizer.
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