REFUGEE CRISIS Doc: Take COVID-19 vaccine
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comes just days after Rowley vowed that
the island nation of 1.3 million with Tobago
will no longer participate in any voting
business at the Organization of American
States (OAS) until the hemispheric body
removes the representative of opposition
leader, Juan Guaido from the assembly
and replace him with one designated by
the current Venezuelan government.
Rowley has in recent weeks lashed
out at the OAS for trying to determine
how the cabinet should handle the crisis
despite the economy tanking from low
oil prices, shuttered borders and reduced
economic activity from the corona virus
pandemic.
“We go to the meetings but we are not
voting on any resolutions or supporting
any resolutions where the people who are
sitting there representing countries are
not proper,” Rowley said, pointing to his
inappropriate presence at the OAS.
“The head of the OAS has no right
engaging in derogatory conversation with
the head of any government anywhere in
the region. Today is Venezuela, tomorrow
is T&T. We are a member, but we are not
a sheep.”
The administration had already been
under pressure to deal with opposition
and other criticism over the alleged forced
return to several refugees who had made
it to Trinidad on rickety boats in recent
weeks. This issue flared up even more
after about 19 of them had drowned in the
border Gulf of Paria waters between the
two countries.
Trinidad and Guyana are the regional
countries bearing the brunt of the refugee
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crisis, with the two playing hosts to
an estimated 100,000 in recent years.
Both have complained about the financial
strain of accommodating and catering to
the groups.
Rowley becomes the chair of the
15-nation CARICOM grouping in January
buy said he does not necessarily need the
backing of the collective to deal with the
refugee crisis and recalcitrant groups such
as the OAS.
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mas-Badal, stating that she took the
vaccine, because it “offers protection.
“Also, I have a 91-year-old mother,
and I don’t want my mother to be
infected,” she said, disclosing that “I
just got married, on April 13, 2019,
and my husband will be coming up
(from Trinidad and Tobago), and I
don’t want him to get infected.
“You have to think of the other people
who you’re around,” Dr. Thomas-
Badal continued. “Being on the frontline
and seeing patients with coronavirus;
and, if there’s anything to help me
to prevent coronavirus, I’ll do it.”
She noted that “a lot of minorities
have underlying medical problems,
such as diabetes, cancers, and coronavirus
(is) killing a lot of my people.”
Dr. Thomas-Badal said some of her
patients are reluctant to take the vaccine,
saying that “they don’t trust” it.
But Dr. Thomas-Badal stressed that
“education is our best defense.”
“A lot of people want to wait to see
what happens (with the COVID-19
vaccine), but, sometimes, we just can’t
wait,” she urged. “We have to find a
way to boost people’s confidence.
“It’s good that the President-elect
(Joe Biden) took it (vaccine) and
encouraged people to take it,” she
added.
Dr. Thomas-Badal said that, after
taking the vaccine, she had a “slight
induration,” in the area where it was
administered, and “felt a little tired the
next day, but it was gone.
“It’s an education thing,” she
emphasized. “People have to be educated.
You have to sit with people and
explain how it (vaccine) works. We
have to explain to others and even
family members.
“I want to get back to where we
were – to gather, to sit and eat,” Dr.
Thomas-Badal continued. “It may take
a while, but I’m glad we have the vaccine.”
Dr. Clifford Young – a Vincentianborn
attending physician at Woodhull
Medical Center in Bedford-Stuyvesant
and SUNY Downstate Medical Center
and University Hospital in Central
Brooklyn, in the heart of the Caribbean
community in Brooklyn – said
that, while “Black people in this country
are fearful of this vaccine, this vaccine
is safe.
“I look at the data, and the vaccine
is safe,” he accentuated. “Caribbean
people and Blacks should take the
vaccine.
“We have the most morbidity and
mortality; so, we should take it (vaccine),”
said Dr. Young, who also has a
private medical practice in the Canarsie
section of Brooklyn. “We suffer the
most, we’re are an at risk-population,
and we should be at the head of the
line.”
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