Published on : 12/05/2021 – 06:54
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In the United States, some cities like New York have opened up vaccination to everyone. It is no longer necessary to prove that one resides on American soil, which should make it possible to vaccinate all undocumented migrants or people in an irregular situation, but which also generates a new phenomenon: medical tourism with the possibility for those who go there to be vaccinated.
Some cities do not hide it. ” Welcome to New York, your vaccine is waiting for you », Can we read on social networks with this precision: it is the Johnson & Jonhson vaccine which is used in agreement with the state authorities.
A boon for many South Americanss who do not manage to be vaccinated at home like Kery Ruiz, a Mexican who came to the United States recently: ” Here in Mexico I should have waited before the vaccine was available. So I decided to go to New York because it’s not far. I went there for a weekend, he recounts. They only asked for my passport to confirm my identity, that’s all. I think a lot of people will want you to go there. Most of my friends are already thinking about it. »
« They just told me I just had to take my ticket »
Not all cities in the United States allow this medical tourism. But people with a current visa can still get the vaccine, since it is not mandatory to have insurance in the United States. “ I called the embassy to find out if I could go get the vaccine and they just told me that I could come when I wanted, that I just had to take my ticket. », Explains Monica Maya, a 51-year-old Colombian who arrived in Miami on Monday.
If some American cities do not hesitate to “sell” this medical tourism, local elected officials instead plead in favor of sending vaccines to these countries so as not to prevent those who do not have the means to travel. vaccinate.
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