A popular Mexican TV host is under fire after traveling to Florida just to get the coveted COVID-19 vaccine, which most Americans did not receive.
Juan José Origel, who is known for presenting Mexican daytime programs such as ‘Ventaneando’, ‘Hoy’ and ‘La Oreja’, posted a photo on Twitter on Saturday of how he got a shot on his right arm while in a motor sit.
“Already vaccinated! Thank you #usa what a shame that my country can not give me that security !!!” Originally written.
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It is unclear how he made the vaccine appointment.
Many on social media blew him away because he was insensitive because he bragged about the shot.
“I’m a mother, I have two children, I pay taxes, I worked during the whole pandemic and it seems that tourists get the chance? What a shame!” wrote one Twitter user.
According to the newspaper Al Dia in Dallas, Texas, Origel traveled to Miami, Florida to get the chance because the COVID-19 vaccine in Mexico was too slow.
Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador said on Monday that Russia would supply Mexico with 24 million doses of its Sputnik V coronavirus vaccine over the next two months.
Obrador, who is heavily criticized for not enforcing stricter COVID-19 rules in the country, announced Sunday that he had tested positive for the bug with mild symptoms.
Foreigners traveling to the US for vaccine shots are nothing new.
Canadians are also looking to travel to the US to hold their arms and go home the same day. Some Argentines have also embarked on an hour-long trip to take the plunge in Florida, reports The Wall Street Journal.
Argentine TV personality Yanina Latorre recently posted on Instagram that her elderly mother received the COVID-19 vaccine while on vacation in South Florida.
She told her 1.5 million followers that two fans helped her make an appointment for her 80-year-old mother – who meets the state’s age 65 and older – in Miami.
Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis said it is permissible for people who own second homes in the state to vaccinate tourists, but discourage doing so.
“If they have a home and not just fly a night or two at night, that’s fine with me,” he told the Journal. “It’s a little bit different than someone who’s just doing tourism and trying to get here. We’re discouraging people from coming to Florida just to get a vaccine.”
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The Florida Department of Health has made it clear that it will investigate the abuse of the COVID-19 vaccines.
“It is absolutely not allowed for anyone to come to Florida for one day to receive the vaccine and leave the next day,” Health Department spokesman Jason Mahon told the newspaper. “We request that all suspected incidents be reported immediately to the appropriate department of health.”