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Ljubisa Milivojevic (49), who lives in Portland in the US state of Oregon, is the first Serbian health worker in the United States to receive the “Pfizer-Bayontek” vaccine. He was vaccinated on Thursday at the OHSU hospital, where he works, and in an exclusive interview with Kurir, he talks about what the immunization process itself was like, if it hurt, what he felt after receiving the vaccine and how he feels.
– On Monday, the hospital gave a questionnaire to the employees in which we were supposed to indicate our name, surname, to answer what race we are and if we want to receive the vaccine. The vaccination already started on Wednesday. On Thursday, my boss called me on the phone around noon. She asked me: “Can you come and get the vaccine?” It was my day off. I said I could. They made an appointment for me at 3pm and I left home at 3.15pm: a story for Kurir Ljubiša.
Ljubiša is originally from Konjic in Herzegovina, has lived in Serbia for years and came to Oregon in 1997. At the OHSU hospital, he works transporting patients in the hospital, including those suffering from COVID-19.
He says he did not think at all about whether to get the vaccine and that the immunization process at the hospital is well organized.
– They made three points that must be passed before vaccination. You say the name in the first and after 10 meters another checkpoint awaits you, where the employee’s identification number is taken. About 15-20 meters away, they inform you that after the vaccine you must wait in a special room for 15 minutes for possible side effects. Only then does he enter the vaccination room – he says.
Everything, he says, happened very quickly.
– Nothing hurts. Only this morning (the day after getting the vaccine) do I feel a slight pain in my hand, like, for example, after the vaccine after the flu. There is a little redness around the bite, but everything is normal – he says with a smile.
The hospital where he works, as he himself says, has 17,000 employees, and so far only about 900 doses have been purchased, mainly for employees who are in direct contact with patients:
– I am less in contact with patients who use a respirator. Most of them are milder cases so I run them on a CT scan, MRI, exams … I have seen it all and there is no dilemma for me. Only a vaccine can stop this madness.
WITHOUT FEARS
“I believe in medicine and good intentions”
Ljubiša lives in Portland with his wife, who is from Lazarevac and has two daughters aged eight and 14 with her. He says his wife was a little more concerned about the vaccination than he was.
– I did not overload myself, but there is always a slight fear, considering that the vaccine was made quickly. However, I believe in medicine and good intentions. The wife, who may have been a bit more concerned, will probably get the vaccine later too, because she works in the hospital too, as a cook, she says.
NBA GAMES WITHOUT AUDIENCE
Clubs haven’t been open since March
Ljubisa says that in Oregon, which has about 3.5 million residents, there are about 2,300 new infections a day and about 20 deaths. Discos and bars have not opened in that country since March.
– In all indoor places, a mask is mandatory, and people mainly wear it outdoors. Restaurants and cafes do not welcome guests, but food and coffee are only carried and carried. The bars are closed, like the discos since March. There have also been no concerts since the beginning of the epidemic, and NBA games were played without an audience – says Ljubiša, adding that many people lost their jobs – many are in the office or receiving welfare.
(Kurir.rs/Ružica Kantar)
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