A Puerto Rican disease was the first to be vaccinated in New Jersey

Washington dc – Puerto Rican disease Maritza Beníquez was the first person to be vaccinated against coronavirus in the state of New Jersey, which he highlighted as an opportunity to emphasize to Latinos that the road to normalcy lies in achieving the immobility of much of the population.

“I wanted to be in front so that my people could see me,” Beníquez said today in a telephone interview with The New Day.

More than 18,000 people have died in New Jersey due to the coronavirus, which has had a particularly hard impact on Latino and black communities.

Beníquez’s vaccination, which took place on Tuesday, coincided with his supplements.

Born and raised in Newark, New Jersey, Beníquez’s family lives in Isabela.

Beníquez has been working at Newark University Hospital for five years.

Since March, he said, it has been very hard to live close to the coronavirus emergency, which took the lives of over 305,000 people in the United States. At his hospital, he said, 11 employees have died.

“It helps to keep a person alive, so that they can return it to their family. I can only imagine the pain that the families have felt, when a relative died not because of an expected illness, but because a virus stole them “, he said.

The Puerto Rican disease stated that she did not synthesize the injection given to her on March, but was thrilled as soon as she was vaccinated, meaning for the safety of her children, her relatives, her own patients and her. . Beníquez already has an appointment for the second dose of the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine to be added on January 4.

“It simply came to our notice then. I’m crazy about being given the second dose, because I know I won’t run the risk of getting infected or affecting others. I want to go see my family, give a hug to my grandmother (in Isabela) and feel that family warmth again “, he added.