Several Central Coast organizations came together to put on the first vaccine clinic in Pajaro. The goal was to provide vaccine access to an underserved community. More than 600 people were vaccinated at the first clinic held in Pajaro on April 16th.
The idea for the clinic all began when the organization Pajaro Valley Prevention and Student Assistance wanted to understand the problem of vaccine access in the rural parts of Monterey and Santa Cruz Counties.
“We surveyed what the vaccination need was for the community out here and we found that over 65 percent of the residents we spoke to had nowhere to get the vaccine and were in need of vaccine,” PVPSA CEO Erica Padilla-Chavez said after surveying hundreds of church-goers during Holy Week at Our Lady of the Assumption Church in Pajaro.
But she says her organization couldn’t have done it alone. She said it was a “partnership” of several organizations that made the clinic a reality.
