“It breaks my heart that so many people in this country are willing to snub the very vaccine my family would have taken in an instant.”
By Huff Post –
Aug 26, 2021
“Jungle Cruise” star Édgar Ramírez revealed on Wednesday the devastating toll COVID-19 has taken on his family in Venezuela and begged people in the U.S. to get the vaccines that are readily available to them.
In an emotional Instagram post, the Venezuelan actor said his aunt died on Saturday followed by his uncle on Sunday and a dear friend on Monday, all from COVID-19.
“At times I feel like it is a nightmare from which I am going to wake up, but I know it is not,” he wrote.
“None of them had access to a vaccine in Venezuela,” Ramírez said. “Meanwhile, tens of thousands of vaccines are being thrown away in the United States because a large number of people don’t want them. It breaks my heart that so many people in this country are willing to snub the very vaccine my family would have taken in an instant.”
The vaccine rollout in Venezuela, which has a population of around 29 million, has been slow and disorganized. According to the Reuters vaccine tracker, just under 4.7 million doses have been administered there, enough to have fully vaccinated around 8.2% of the population.
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