Jusuf Nurkic, player of the Portland Trail Blazers, has always been a very involved and committed person with his country, Bosnia-Herzegovina. Now, in the midst of a pandemic and with vaccination very advanced in some countries, he wants to do his bit and has considered buying vaccines for the entire country.
He announced it in a guest speech at ESPN Daily. There he explained that his economic and social position could help him when it comes to facilitating access to the vaccine for all his compatriots. For this, he declared that he was studying the possibility of buy all the doses rejected by the American population and take them to Bosnia-Herzegovina.
“All these countries are suffering and the United States, obviously number one in the world, has the vaccines and people don’t want to get vaccinated.”Nurkic commented. “I feel that humanity has failed a bit, because all the countries that are around should receive at least some of the vaccines, right?”.
With the data on deaths from Covid-19 in hand, in which Bosnia appears in the third place of deaths per million inhabitants (2,965), it is easy to understand the intentions of a Nurkic who cannot sit back without doing anything to try to improve things in a country where only just over 470,000 vaccines have been administered among a population of 3.3 million inhabitants.
In addition, in the case of Nurkic it can be understood that his involvement also has something personal, since his grandmother died of Covid-19 in August 2020, after spending time in a coma, while the player was in the final stretch of the season, ‘cloistered’ in the Orlando bubble in which the campaign ended NBA.
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