NPRIn Mexico, a sweeping measles outbreak has triggered a sweeping response — a campaign to vaccinate 2.5 million people a week.
In the capital, posters are plastered with QR codes for people to look up the nearest spot for vaccination.
Nurses go door-to-door, and there are pop-up vaccine stations in bakeries, bus stations, cinemas, shopping malls, roundabouts —- you name it. WhatsApp groups are pinged with waiting times at various centers.
“People were very worried,” says Erica Briones Chavez, a nurse in a public medical center in Mexico City’s Chapultepec neighborhood. “For a couple of months we were doing two to three hundred vaccinations a day — mothers, fathers, teenagers and babies. Even the grandparents wanted to get vaccinated.” People were queueing up for two hours.
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