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Juan Herrera didn’t want anything to do with COVID-19 vaccines because of trust issues with the government, but then he got one. Photos courtesy Juan Herrera.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Juan Herrera was against getting a COVID-19 vaccine.<\/p>\n

\u201cNope, not me,\u2019\u2019 he told a nurse when he took his wife to a UCHealth vaccine clinic<\/a> to get her first shot. Then he started talking a little more to the nurse, Adrienne Walsh, who was working in the vaccine clinic in Colorado Springs and doing everything she could to see people get vaccinated.<\/p>\n

Much of Herrera\u2019s vaccine hesitancy, he told Walsh during their meeting in early October, came from his experience as a Latino man growing up in Watts, a mostly Black neighborhood in Los Angeles, California. What he witnessed there led him to distrust government, and that factored in a big way into his choice not to be vaccinated.<\/p>\n

\u201cI was really against it,\u2019\u2019 the 56-year-old said of the vaccine. \u201cIt was a trust issue.\u2019\u2019<\/p>\n

Trust issues with COVID vaccine<\/h2>\n

Walsh listened, and she heard him.\u00a0 And then Walsh spoke.<\/p>\n

\u201cShe told me what she had seen, what the doctors and the nurses had been dealing with, and the fight that is going on behind the scenes, the things that we don\u2019t get to see. And it made me think really hard about it, what she and others were going through, and the need for protection, not just for myself, but for others as well.<\/p>\n

\u201cShe didn\u2019t tell me everything, but I could see it in her eyes, you know,\u2019\u2019 Herrera said.<\/p>\n

After that conversation, Herrera did some additional research<\/a>, talked to his sister-in-law, who is a nurse, and considered the toll the virus had already taken on family and friends. The virus had nearly killed his brother, who is also battling colon cancer; and it took the life of his 68-year-old friend, a guy from the San Luis Valley who accompanied him and others on long rides on their Harley-Davidsons.<\/p>\n

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Juan Herrera loves to ride his Harley Davidson. Photo courtesy Juan Herrera.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

\u201cWe\u2019re a rough group, but these are a good people, people who earned their way in life by the sweat of their brow,\u2019\u2019 Herrera said.<\/p>\n

Setting aside distrust in favor of family<\/h2>\n

Another factor also motivated him. Getting the vaccine<\/a> would enable him and his wife to continue to care for his mother-in-law, who has terminal cancer.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe want to give her everything she could possibly need, and we did not want to get her sick. My wife is very, very close to her mother, and we want to be able to care for her until she is ready to rest,\u2019\u2019 he said.<\/p>\n

Herrera and his wife, Vanessa, have been married 35 years. They have three children and 11 grandchildren. The family spends a lot of time cheering for the grandkids, who excel in wrestling and boxing in Colorado Springs.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe go to all their activities. We break bread together, and we get kind of loud with each other. Whenever we have a chance to have a good time with each other, we do,\u2019\u2019 he said.<\/p>\n

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Juan Herrera and his wife, Vanessa.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

As a young kid, Herrera\u2019s life was much different. He often heard his elders talk of the Watts riots. He lived through the era of Rodney King, a victim of police brutality, and recalls a few run-ins with police.<\/p>\n

\u201cBack then, we didn\u2019t have cell phones. You had to have dimes in your pocket to call anyone. We\u2019d get worked over by the rival gangs and it was definitely different, it was just what I was a part of,\u2019\u2019 he said.<\/p>\n

Weighing the seriousness of COVID-19 with trust issues<\/strong><\/h2>\n

Herrera, who works in transportation at a local university, said the longer he thought about getting the vaccine, the more he began to set aside the trust issues in favor of being there for his family and grandkids. Herrera has six brothers and two sisters.<\/p>\n

His older brother, who lives in Missouri, barely survived COVID-19.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe didn\u2019t think he was going to make it. He had a severe temperature, and that put me over the top in terms of making the decision and wanting to be around my grandkids,\u2019\u2019 he said. \u201cThe other thing about COVID is you don\u2019t know how bad it is going to be before you get it. You could have a runny nose, or be on a respirator. My brother was pretty sick for a while there, he is doing better now, thank God.\u2019\u2019<\/p>\n

When it came time to get the shot, Herrera was still a little uneasy.<\/p>\n

\u201cI was pretty scared, and I was a little nervous,\u2019\u2019 he said. \u201cI\u2019d read about the importance of being hydrated, so I drank about a gallon of water and pink lemonade. I made sure I was hydrated.<\/p>\n

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Juan Herrera is photographed with his family. Herrera had trust issues with the covid vaccine but put that aside in favor of family.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

\u201cI never had any symptoms, it was basically like a blast on the shoulder, a little Charlie horse and a sore muscle for the first one. The second one, I was a sleepy head. I took a nap and woke up, and that was it,\u2019\u2019 he said.<\/p>\n

In the end, Herrera got a shot because he believes it is the right thing to do, not just for him but others.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt was tough for me to get it, but once I did the research, it made sense.\u2019\u2019<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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