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the

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mission of this deployment was to get

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as many people in the state of New

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Jersey vaccinated as we could

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fema . Had been asked by the state of

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New Jersey to provide covid vaccination

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for its population from the state of

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New Jersey side , we had the New Jersey

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State Police and the Department of

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Health and then we had the fema team ,

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they found a site set it up so that it

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could be a vaccination center . And we

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were working in a , an indoor tennis

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court on a university campus in

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downtown Newark . They covered the

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floors and set up booths and a waiting

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area in processing area of pharmacy

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area . Uh Admin area , logistics

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area . Even in a mass

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vaccination setting , people want to

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feel like they're being treated like

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people right ? Not like cattle , not

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like they're being herded through

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something . So some people just wanted

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to have a conversation with a doctor to

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say , hey , you know , these are my

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medical conditions , these are the

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medications I'm taking . These are the

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specific questions that I have so that

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they were individually reassured before

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getting their vaccinations .

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We had a deaf patient come through the

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sign language interpreter was video

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chatting with us on my phone after he

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got his vaccination , he literally

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shouted like , thank you God , thanks

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to all of you , I'm so happy I got the

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shot . Um it was great just because he

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was so full of joy about it . A lot of

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people coming through , you know ,

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there , they're afraid . They want to

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tell you they don't like shots , I tell

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them that's healthy . It's not normal

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to like shots , you're not supposed to ,

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but a lot of people really were

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apprehensive and had a lot of anxiety

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about it and he was just so looking

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forward to it . And so relieved once he

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had it , um that that just made

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everybody's day . Everybody out there

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was just so passionate about everything

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they were doing . And I think that made

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a huge difference , the

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commitment that people had to doing

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whatever role that they were assigned

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um and the flexibility that they

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demonstrated because everybody was

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focused on the mission and focused on

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the patients . Mhm . Yeah . Yeah .

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Yeah . Mhm . Yeah .