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From YouTube: COVID CONVO: On Vaccines and the CVC
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The newest episode of COVID CONVO. On this "Meet the CVC" edition, Board Vice Chair Katie Cristol chats with members of the Complete Vaccination Committee: Arlington Free Clinic Executive Director Nancy White, BU-GATA's Saul Reyes, and APS student Lara Mohammed.
A
A
I'm
katie
crystal
the
vice
chair
of
the
arlington
county
board,
and
I
am
genuinely
thrilled
to
be
introducing
our
guests
tonight
who
are
community
leaders
and
members
of
our
complete
vaccination
committee.
We
have
with
us
today
laura
mohammed
sal,
reyes
and
nancy
white
of
the
arlington
free
clinic.
So
before
we
get
really
rocking
with
some
conversation,
I
want
to
just
take
a
quick
minute
and
provide
a
little
bit
of
an
update
on
where
arlington
is
in
the
vaccine
process.
A
Here
in
the
county,
we
are
still
working
our
way
through
the
phase
1a
and
1b
priority
groups,
as
you
all
probably
know
by
now.
That
includes
healthcare
providers,
that
include
residents
who
are
65
years
old
and
older
residents
who
are
16
to
64
years
old
and
who
have
underlying
medical
conditions,
and
all
of
those
are
only
those
folks
who
have
pre-registered
we'll
be
talking
more
about
pre-registration
and
why
it's
so
important
later
tonight,
and
we
are
also
vaccinating
frontline
workers
in
phase
1b.
A
So
that
includes
all
kinds
of
individuals
and
different
forward-looking
jobs
who
are
out
in
the
community.
It's
important
that
we
vaccinate
them
as
well
to
protect
not
only
them,
but
all
of
those
that
they
serve
and
we've
just
moved
into
some
of
the
latest
subcategories,
including
sending
scheduling
notifications
to
public
transit
personnel,
mail
carriers
and
others
excitingly.
Over
the
past
several
weeks,
our
public
health
department
has
seen
a
significant
increase
in
the
vaccine
doses
they've
received,
and
that
means
a
significant
increase
in
the
number
of
doses.
A
B
I
went
to
school
here
and
graduated
from
darunel
high
school,
and
I
also
work
here
in
arlington
and
I've
worked
here
in
various
fields:
an
organization
I've
always
been
involved
with
as
bugatta
tenants,
association
and
the
buckingham
youth
brigade,
which
is
a
program
of
bugatta.
In
fact,
this
group
is
the
reason
I
developed
the
interest
in
community
involvement
at
an
early
age
leading
to
now
working
in
community
and
housing
preservation
advocacy
in
the
low-income
immigrant
community
here
in
arlington,
and
it
is
a
pleasure
to
be
here
joining
us
all
here.
C
Hi,
my
name
is:
laura.
I've
been
living
in
arlington
for
six
years
in
douglas
park
neighborhood.
I
am
currently
a
sophomore
at
washington
liberty,
high
school,
I'm
very
active
in
my
community,
I'm
the
outreach
co-chair
of
arlington
youth
philanthropy
initiative,
a
member
of
march
for
allies,
virginia's
communication
team.
I
lead
a
law
advocacy
group
with
leadership
initiatives,
I'm
active
in
rosy
riveters
and
I
was
recently
appointed
to
serve
on
the
girl
advisory
board
for
girl
scouts
nation's
capital.
A
D
D
I've
been
involved
with
arlington
free
clinic
as
a
volunteer
for
about
you
know,
25
years
and
as
the
leader
for
about
five
years,
and
we
provide
free
health
care
to
low-income
arlington
residents
through
the
generosity
of
volunteers,
and
so
I'm
really
happy
to
be
here
today,
as
also
in
my
role
as
co-chair
of
the
complete
vaccine
committee
in
order
to
get
as
many
people
vaccinated
as
possible.
So
thank
you
for
for
pulling
this
group
together
tonight.
A
Well,
we're
really
excited
to
have
you
all
and
to
hear
from
you
all.
So,
let's
start
by
just
taking
a
minute
to
reflect
we're
now,
as
someone
put
it
the
other
day
into
year,
two,
which
is
a
little
bit
scary,
but
having
marked
our
one
year,
anniversary
of
being
shut
down
or
limited
or
otherwise
dealing
with
the
impacts
of
kovid.
What
have
been
some
of
the
biggest
challenges
you've
faced,
either
personally
or
as
a
leader
in
different
communities
in
arlington
county
and
what
ways
have
you
adapted?
Would
anyone
like
to
jump
in.
B
B
We
haven't
been
able
to
have
in-person
meetings
with
the
community.
We
haven't
been
able
to
have
get-togethers
community
celebrations,
for
example,
us
at
abu
ghata.
We
used
to
organize
the
buckingham
community
festival
which
we
couldn't
hold
last
year
or
a
holiday
party
in
december,
so
those
are
have
been
difficult.
B
A
Well,
I'm
sure
the
sense
of
not
being
able
to
gather
has
affected
what
school
life
is
like
laura
I
mean
I
don't
know
if
you've
had
those
experiences
of
missing
milestones
are
the
the
challenges
of
not
being
able
to
gather
what.
What
would
you
point
to
with
some
of
the
biggest
challenges
facing
young
people
in
arlington
and
any
insights
about
what's
been
working
or
helping
you
overcome
them?.
C
C
So
it's
just
been
kind
of
hard
and
confusing,
because
things
change
so
fast
and
I
think,
like
my
generation,
is
very
like
they
use
technology
a
lot,
but
I
think
still
like
moving
all
the
meetings
online
and
like
all
activities
online,
it
still
kind
of
gets
a
little
bit
overwhelming
to
have
like
a
lot
of
meetings
online
and
then
just
to
make
sure
like
that
you're
safe
all
the
time
and
for
me
one
of
the
biggest
things
that's
kind
of
like
helped
me
cope
with.
This
is
like
my
family.
C
We
kind
of
stay
in
our
coveted
bubble
and
we
they
all
kind
of
live
in
arlington.
So
that's
been
something
that
I
always
have
looked
forward
to
and
we're
also
now
on
spring
break
so
like
the
nice
weather
has
also
been
kind
of
nice
and
being
able
to
go
outside
and
for
me
also
like
playing
my
playing
my
violin
and
just
doing
the
things
that
I
like
too.
C
A
D
D
You
know
new
ways
to
vaccinate
people
and
ways
to
keep
our
volunteers
and
our
staff
and
our
patients
safe
and,
at
the
same
time,
being
able
to
provide
effective
health
care,
and
so
we've
done
a
lot
of
that
on
the
sidewalk
over
the
past
year
and
really
meeting
people
where
they
are
and
and
all
and
helping
people
who
had
not
used
technology.
A
lot
learn
how
to
do
a
telehealth
visit.
A
We
ask
our
cvc
members
and
our
partner
organizations
to
be
essentially
ambassadors
share
information
about
the
vaccine
across
their
community
logistics
about
how
to
receive
it,
build
confidence
in
the
vaccine
by
talking
about
their.
Why?
Why
get
the
vaccine
what
they
know
about
its
safety
and
encouraging
arlingtonians
to
themselves
participate
in
the
vaccine
community,
the
vaccine
effort?
Rather
so
I
would
love
to
hear
from
from
you
all
what
motivated
you
to
be
part
of
the
complete
vaccination
committee,
specifically
nancy.
D
We
should
start
with
you,
oh
sure.
Of
course.
I
well
first
of
all,
it's
so
critical
and
I
I
think
from
our
pers
from
my
perspective,
with
arlington
free
clinic.
What
we
see
when
I
look
at
our
patient
communities
is
barriers.
There
are
language
barriers,
literacy,
barriers,
our
patients,
don't
necessarily
have
email
addresses.
They
can't
necessarily
read
in
english.
D
All
of
those
pieces
that
I
can
figure
out
are
so
hard,
and
so
we
have
systems
here
at
the
clinic
to
be
able
to
to
really
shepherd
people
through
that
process
and
we're
used
to
calling
people
personally
or
texting
them
or
using
their
own
avenues
for
communication.
And
so
I
I
see
firsthand
how
great
those
barriers
are
and
knew
that
my
role
with
the
complete
vaccine
committee
would
provide
a
perspective
that
hopefully
would
help
reach
those
individuals
that
were
going
to
get
left
behind.
Otherwise,.
A
B
Well,
I
think
what
nancy
just
mentioned-
it's
very
important
just
connecting
people
to
the
right
information
into
the
to
the
right
resources.
For
example,
I
mentioned
earlier
my
work
with
bugatta.
I
highly
encourage
people
to
reach
out
to
organizations
you
work
with,
for
example,
us
we
can
refer
you.
We
can
provide
the
information
of
the
what
the
resources
where
to
go.
For
that
information.
You
can
visit
the
county
website.
The
covet
website
call
the
hotline
or
we
can
also
help
with
registration.
So.
C
So
for
me,
I
really
feel
like
we're,
making
an
impact
and
really
helping
get
the
information
out
to
a
lot
more
people.
I
love
how
we
focus
our
attention
like
different
groups
of
people
and
take
time
to
actually
like
message
the
information
towards
those
people,
and
I
also
really
love
how
we
all
kind
of
use,
our
connections
to
help
spread
the
vaccine
information
and
I,
by
doing
that,
we
make
our
community
more
safe.
C
I
was
also
previously
on
the
complete
count
committee
for
the
census
and
that
kind
of,
like
I,
was
able
to
see
firsthand
how
we
were
able
to
impact
the
community
and
really
make
a
difference
which
pushed
me
to
join
this
committee,
and
I
also
really
love
that
I'm
able
to
kind
of
give
like
a
student
perspective
of
the
pandemic.
So
that's
been
really
fun.
C
A
Great
and
to
give
a
student
perspective
on
our
conversation
tonight,
which
we
especially
appreciate,
okay,
I
think
we've
got
saul
back.
So
I
think
you
were
sharing
a
little
more
about
how
people
can
reach
out
to
organizations
with
which
they
may
be
involved.
If
they're
interested
in
learning
more
or
as
nancy
was
saying,
they
have
barriers
to
accessing
information
about
the
vaccine
or
the
vaccine
itself.
B
B
The
information,
the
correct
information
and
so
to
add
to
this
I
would
say,
is
that
I
I've
seen
the
impact
of
covid
affecting
our
jobs
and,
as
lara
mentioned,
our
schools
and
also
the
overall
community,
and
the
reason
why
I
got
involved
with
the
complete
vaccination
committee
is
is
because
I
see
the
vaccine
as
a
hope,
as
I
hope
to
get
back
to
life,
and
I
also
know
the
importance
of
having
accurate,
factual
information
based
on
science.
Science.
B
That
is
important
and
the
work
of
the
complete
vaccination
committee
is
key
to
get
that
right.
Information
out
to
the
community,
keeping
informed
and
passing
that
information
along
to
friends
and
neighbors
and
people
we
work
with
and
interact
with,
is
very
important
and
to
add
to
what
nancy
was
saying
is
the
importance
of
those
informal
networks.
Many
of
us
rely
on
informal
networks
and
it's
important
that
that
correct
and
factual
information
is
provided
to
keep
our
community
informed
and
educated.
A
You
were
describing
the
the
the
layoffs
or
lost
economic
opportunities
associated
with
it,
and
your
organization
bugatta
and
nancy.
The
arlington
free
clinics
have
been
essential
parts
of
catching
our
neighbors,
for
whom
the
online
pre-registration
system
may
not
be
working.
Who
could
otherwise
fall
through
the
cracks?
I'd
love
to
take
a
minute
to
just
hear
a
little
more
in
your
capacity
as
leaders
of
bugatta
in
the
free
clinic
to
hear
more
about
what
your
two
institutions
are
doing
to
help
catch.
Our
neighbors.
D
You
know
whatever
those
barriers
are
we're
able
to
provide
those
we're
also
able
to
offer
clinics
on
the
weekends
and
sometimes
in
the
evenings,
to
work
around
their
work
schedule.
So
many
of
them
have
missed
so
much
work
during
this
time
and
now
that
they're
back
to
work
we
hate
to
have
them,
have
to
miss
in
order
to
come
in
even
for
something
as
important
as
a
vaccine.
A
Yeah
and
macedonia
baptist
as
a
quick
explainer
is
one
of
arlington's
amazing
networks
of
historically
black
churches
and
they've
been
not
only
gracious
hosts
of
that
neighborhood
health
vaccination
clinic,
but
a
referrer
of
perhaps
the
older
members
of
their
congregation,
who
may
not
otherwise
have
access,
as
well
as
working
with
the
other
network
of
of
black
churches
in
our
communities.
So
so
we
got
to
split
an
important
role,
also
as
a
referrer.
Would
you
want
to
say
more
about
about
that
work.
B
Sure,
as
I
mentioned
earlier,
bugatta,
we
focus
on
doing
tenant,
outreach
and
education
through
through
our
work.
We
interact
with
a
lot
of
the
community
arlington
county
60
of
the
population
are
renters
and
we've
been
around
in
the
community
for
quite
a
while
since
1992,
so
we
are
known
throughout
the
community
and,
like
I
said,
our
focus
is
standard,
outreach
and
education,
and
through
that
we
connect
residents
to
resources
in
that
community
and,
as
nancy
mentioned,
you
know
the
partnership
with
neighborhood
health.
B
A
Excellent.
Thank
you.
A
great
example
of
a
trusted
partner
right
you've
been
building
that
trust
for
almost
30
years
in
the
community,
and
and
so
when
you
knock
on
doors,
and
let
people
know
that
you're
here
to
help
it
means
something.
Well
laura.
You
are
part
of
an
important
group
that
isn't
eligible
yet
or
in
some
cases
the
vaccine
hasn't
quite
been
approved
for
yet,
but
is
ultimately
going
to
be
a
really
critical
group
in
helping
us
reach
herd
immunity
in
arlington
in
the
region,
and
that
is,
of
course
young
adults
and
students.
A
C
So
when
it's
available
for
them,
they
can
take
it,
and
I
think
a
lot
of
the
bigger
part
of
it,
too,
is
like
for
younger
kids,
their
parents.
They
tend
to
do
whatever
their
parents
are
doing
so
if
their
parents
are
really
convinced
of
taking
the
vaccine,
then
they
will
more
likely
take
it.
So
I
think,
like
also
just
emphasizing
outreach
to
like
people
who
don't
speak
english
or
minorities,
so
that
way
that
their
kids
can
also
take
it.
A
Point
well,
I'm
thinking
about
one
of
the
other
important
roles
of
the
complete
vaccination
committee
is
to
help
surface
and
elevate
what
you're
hearing
in
the
community
right
and-
and
we
can
kind
of,
compare
notes
on
that.
You
know
by
by
some
measures
we're
hearing
as
many
as
ninety
percent
of
arlingtonians
are,
are
confident
about
taking
the
vaccine
or
plan
to
get
the
vaccine
when
it's
available
to
them.
Certainly
what
we've
seen
with
with
long
waiting
lists.
That's
definitely
true,
but
I'm
interested.
A
You
know
one
of
the
reasons
we
convened
as
the
cvc
was
that
we
wanted
to
reach
people
who
might
be
a
little
skeptical
or
a
little
nervous.
You
know
one
example
or
one
kind
of
nuance:
I've
heard
about
from
folks.
A
lot
is,
especially
in
those
early
groups,
maybe
1a
those
who
worked
in
long-term
care
facilities
or
or
things
like
that,
with
sort
of
the
sense
of
you
know,
I'm
it's
not
that
I'm
skeptical
about
vaccine
necessarily
it's
that
I
don't
want
to
go
first.
I
want
to
see
how
this
plays
out,
among
others.
A
D
So
we're
seeing
a
lot
of
what
you
just
said
of
initial
skepticism
and
hesitancy
and
then
now
we're
finding
those
people
are
calling
us
and
saying
I'm
ready
to
get
a
vaccine
even
three
or
four
weeks
later,
that
I
think
time
is
going
to
help
a
lot
of
that.
I
think
that
a
lot
of
of
young
women
who
are
of
child
bearing
years
have
questions
and
so
we're
suggesting
that
they
talk
with
their
with
their
physicians
or
their
nurse
practitioners
or
their
trusted
health
professionals
so
that
they
can
have
some
comfort.
D
Women
who
are
are
pregnant
or
breastfeeding
really
need
to
reach
out
there,
because
that's
where
a
lot
of
our
questions
are
coming
from,
and
so
we
really
want
them
to
talk
to
their
health
professionals
so
that
they're
getting
advice.
That's
that's
personal
to
them.
So
I
I
I
think
that
it's
that
a
lot
of
it,
as
is
that
as
the
immigrant
community
or
as
some
of
our
populations
start
to
get
vaccinated,
they
are
going
to
be
our
best
ambassadors
into
their
neighborhoods
and
into
their
communities.
D
That's
much
more
so
much
more
influential
than
I
would
be.
If
I
were
trying
to
convince
them
to
get
to
get
a
vaccine,
and
so
we're
really
hoping
to
count
on
our
on
our
patient
population
and
on
our
immigrant
community,
to
help
spread
the
word
and
to
increase
that
confidence
that
that
needs
to
happen.
In
order
for
people
to
say.
B
With
you,
yes,
definitely
does
wrestling.
What
nancy
said
is:
is
it
it's?
What
I
would
add
on
to
is
that
there's
the
issue
of
trust
and
misinformation,
and
so
it's
just
getting
that
correct
information
out
there.
You
know
people
sharing
stories
and,
like
I
mentioned
earlier,
is
you
know,
I'm
confident
that
getting
as
much
factual
information
out
there
through
the
work
of
the
complete
vaccine
committee
and
our
partners
and
our
community
leaders
that
will
help
provide
that
factual
information?
B
A
D
So
one
thing
we're
seeing
katie
is
that
there's
so
much
variation
from
county
to
county
from
state
to
state
what
maryland's
doing
what
dc's
doing?
What
alexandria
is
doing,
that
the
complete
vaccine
committee
has
had
a
really
important
role
this
year
in
providing
up-to-date,
accurate
information,
because
it's
different
from
what
it
is
across
the
state
lines
or
the
county
lines.
It
also
changes
so
quickly.
You
know
one
week,
things
are
at
walter
reed.
The
next
week,
they're
at
lover
run
the
next
week
we're
going
to
be
in
one.
D
You
know,
maybe
in
one
season
and
as
those
things
change
it's
like.
Okay,
here's
another
way
to
get
signed
up
and
now
cvs
says,
there's
so
much
information
and
it
changes
so
quickly
and
almost
every
hour
it
seems
and
so
to
have.
You
know
one
source
in
the
county:
that's
providing
up-to-date,
almost
daily
emails
and
accurate
information
to
give
people
at
least
one
place
to
go
with
the
county
that
is
up
to
date.
D
A
I
think
we
we
learned
that
when
people
hear
misinformation
or
confusing
messages
about
the
rollout
that
actually
can
kind
of
feed
into
general
mistrust
about
the
vaccine,
so
I
think
that's
such
an
important
point
is
trying
our
best
to
communicate
clearly
as
members
of
the
cvc
about
which
sources
of
information
not
only
about
what's
in
the
vaccine
and
is
it
safe.
But
frankly,
how
can
I
access
it
and
when
and
is
it
being
distributed
fairly?
That's
really
important
too
laura.
A
I
don't
know
if
you
want
to
get
in
here,
and
you
know
why
you
you
give
us
some
great
insight
about
students
and
young
people.
You
wear
a
lot
of
hats
in
this
community
right.
You
play
a
leadership
role
as
a
as
a
young
person,
but
you're
also
a
member
of
arlington's
muslim
american
community.
I
don't
know
if
you
have
other
perspectives
from
from
the
the
groups
of
which
you're
part
about
what
you're
hearing
from
people
when
it
comes
to
access
to
the
vaccine
or
or
their
thoughts
about
getting
the
vaccine.
C
Maybe
like
social
media,
because
I
know
people
are
at
home
and
they're
spending
more
times
at
their
phone
and
they
might
not
have
time
to
like.
You
know,
go
search
up
a
website
or
you
know,
check
things
every
like
their
email
regularly.
But
I
think
social
media
might
be
like
an
easy
way
to
get
people's
attention
and
they
kind
of
debunk
misinformation.
A
I
love
that
point.
Actually,
our
superintendent
was
just
talking
with
the
chair
of
the
board
matt
and
me
the
other
day
about
how
some
parents
have
flagged
the
need
for
spanish
language,
tick
tocks,
because
young
people,
and
even
in
some
cases
their
parents
are
getting,
unfortunately,
misinformation
via
that
source,
and
so
what
can
we
be
doing
so?
A
D
Why
is
is
easy?
I
think
there
has
been
so
much
sorrow
and
so
much
heartbreak
in
the
community
that
we
serve
at
arlington
free
clinic,
and
it's
just
so
important
that
there's
finally
something
some
hope
to
offer
and
there's
a
light
at
the
end
of
that
tunnel
as
we
keep
hearing.
But
it's
just
finally
to
have
some
hope
to
to
latch
on
to.
A
C
Would
get
it
because
I
think
that
covet
has
taken
away
so
many
people's
lives
and
I
don't
want
it
to
take
away
more
people's
lives,
and
I
think
that
just
getting
a
vaccine
would
really
help
kind
of
solve
the
issue.
And
I
think
that
it's
something
simple
that
I
could
do.
So
that's
why
I
would
take
the
vaccine.
B
B
It's
for
our
future,
so
we
can
get
to
once
again
enjoy
being
out
and
breathing
some
fresh
air
and
just
having
that
enjoyment
of
going
out
and
feeling
free
that
you
can,
you
can
breathe
again.
It's!
However,
you
know
it
is
it
is
that
hope
that
we
see,
but
it
is
also
important
that
we
continue
to
practice
safety
to
keep
social
distancing,
wear
our
masks
and
wash
our
hands
until
we
stop
the
spread
of
kobe
in
our
community.
A
I
love
that
and
I'm
with
you,
in
addition
to
all
of
the
really
compelling
reasons
you
all
talked
about
about
ending
a
pandemic
that
has
been
so
hard
on
our
community.
However,
you
define
community
arlington,
our
neighborhoods
or
even
our
global
community,
and
I
also
for
me
a
big
part
of
my.
Why
is
the
idea
of
being
back
at
buckingham
day
or
the
prio
bangla
street
festival
right
arlington
is
at
our
best
when
we're
together
and
exchanging
our
cultures
and
being
with
one
another
and
learning
from
one
another.
A
Well,
on
that
note,
I
can't
thank
you
all
enough
for
joining
us
and
thank
you
to
those
of
you.
Who've
been
tuning
in
tonight.
Sal
gave
the
pitch
as
well
as
I
could.
Even
if
you've
been
fully
vaccinated,
please
keep
being
safe,
keep
wearing
a
mask,
stay
six
feet,
apart
from
others,
wash
your
hands
and
practice
all
of
those
important
physical,
distancing
and
social
distancing
steps
so
that
we
can
beat
back
this
pandemic
together,
stay
safe
out
there.