Vaccines for Puerto Rico
LARES, Puerto Rico – Local agencies came together to set up a vaccination center in Plaza de La Revolución Nov. 9, 2017. Elsie Camacho Torres, a nurse with Centro de Salud Lares, checks a patient’s paperwork before administering a vaccine. Torres prepares a vaccination, opening a new needle and syringe, checking it, and then filling it with the influenza vaccine. Carmen Lopez Perez, a nurse with Centro de Salud Lares, administers a vaccine to a patient, and applies gauze to prevent any bleeding. Local agencies, with some help from the Federal Emergency Management Agency, administered influenza, tetanus, diphtheria, and whooping cough (TDAP) ) vaccines to people throughout the community. They expected to administer 500 vaccines. (U.S. Army photo illustration by Sgt. Avery Cunningham)
