Wealthy Mexicans Traveling to U.S. to Get Coronavirus Vaccine

[mystery-ak]

Wealthy Mexicans Traveling to U.S. to Get Coronavirus Vaccine

Penny Starr 30 Mar 2021

Americans are being told to wait until it is their turn to get a coronavirus vaccine while wealthy Mexicans are heading north to the United States to get vaccinated.

In Mexico, only five percent of citizens have been vaccinated and the wait time is lengthy.

Taxpayer-funded National Public Radio (NPR) reported on what the leftwing media outlet called “the quest for shots.” According to Carrie Kahn, an NPR journalist stationed in Mexico:

    David Gutiérrez Inzunza, a Baja California state public health official in the Mexican border city of Tijuana, said the state has been hit hard by the coronavirus. He was one of thousands of people registered with severe cases there in the past year.

    He said only those who have had the disease understand how he feels. He had to get his hand on a vaccine quickly. But most of Tijuana’s limited supply was going to front-line hospital workers. So he looked for options. And the best was to get the vaccine across the border in San Diego, Calif. He has gotten both doses at a local Vons grocery store chain.

    Gutiérrez was born in San Diego and has a California ID. He said he obtained the identification using his brother’s home address in San Diego. He insists that no one at the vaccination site checked whether he worked or resided in the county, the two requirements necessary to get a shot there.

“If they had asked me, I would have told the truth and left,” Gutiérrez said.

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https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2021/03/30/wealthy-mexicans-traveling-u-s-get-coronavirus-vaccine/

[PeteS in CA]

As badly as EU countries' vaccination roll-out is going Canada is doing worse, and Mexico worse still. I doubt any state's vaccine efforts verify residence more than cursorily, if at all. So there probably "vaccine tourists" coming in from both Mexico and Canada.