MIAMI, Florida – If you’ve tried to get an appointment to receive a COVID-19 vaccine from an elderly relative in South Florida you know it’s not easy. The appointments are running out quickly but as Myriam Masihy, from the Telemundo 51 Investiga team, discovered while many residents of our state are still waiting, some tourists from other countries have come to visit and received the vaccine.
In a video on her Instagram page, renowned Argentine TV presenter Yanina Latorre celebrates the fact that her mother was able to receive a vaccine against COVID-19 while visiting South Florida.
“I just took a turn off Dora, I’m taking my vaccinated mother to Buenos Aires,” she says in the video.
In a series of videos he posted on Instagram, Latorre says a friendship helped him get the date, as his mother meets the criteria of being over 65 years old. The news did not go down well with university professor Dr. Omar Álvarez-Pousa, who also qualifies for the vaccine, but has not yet been able to receive it due to the lack of appointments.
“They were proactively promoting coming to Miami to be vaccinated-free for all people who were over 65 and not required to do anything else, just have an appointment (an appointment), come and get vaccinated,” he says. Pousa.
Another well-known Argentine who has made headlines is lawyer Ana Rosenfeld, who says she travels frequently to Miami to see her family and received the vaccine in Tampa.
“I didn’t come on a vaccination tour, I was here in the United States, I came to know my grandson who was born in a pandemic (…) I would have been in the part of the world that I would have been and knowing that this possibility exists I would have done it, ”Rosenfeld says.
Rosenfeld says he would never promote traveling to receive a vaccine. As for Yanina Latorre, we managed to contact her by phone, but she said she couldn’t talk at the time because she was in the vaccine line. He was left to give us an interview later, but he stopped answering us.
“There’s the Hard Rock Stadium I don’t know if you see, we’re in line,” Latorre says in a video.
By Instagram he documented the process, asking what steps his mother should take after receiving the vaccine.
“Can you go to the beach? Can you go to the beach?” He says.
And then came the moment: “Mom getting the shot … let’s go Dora I love you.”
“In the name of God,” he said before receiving the first dose. Watch the video.
Francis Suárez, mayor of Miami, says, “I think it’s disgusting that people take advantage of the fact that we’re distributing vaccines to our community. It has to go as a priority to the residents of our community. And it’s something that doesn’t. it has to happen “.
Suárez told us that he will investigate the matter, while Dr. Álvarez-Pousa says that, worried, he wrote to the governor.
“This exists, fix it, it can’t be that today we put at risk one more old man, one more doctor or one more sick person, to give a vaccine to a tourist who comes and still abuses his stay and brags, when he returns to his country, he was given a free vaccine. “
We also wrote to Governor Ron DeSantis in the office, but we have not yet received a response. At the moment, there are no rules that prohibit a tourist who meets the criteria from receiving the vaccine.