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首府今天开打强生疫苗！开始为农场工人、服务员注射疫苗！
（SACBEE）Food workers, janitors and farmers are vaccinated with the Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine for the first time in Sacramento at Natomas High School in Sacramento on Thursday, March 11, 2021. BY DANIEL KIM
2021年3月11日星期四，萨克拉门托的纳托马斯高中，食品工人、门卫和农民首次接种辉瑞COVID-19疫苗。
Sacramento County hit two major COVID-19 vaccine milestones Thursday, signaling a new chapter in the growing effort to bring life back to normal in the capital region.
本周四，萨克拉门托县迎来了新冠肺炎疫苗接种的两个重大里程碑，标志着为使首府地区的生活恢复正常所付出的努力进入了新的篇章。
The first farm workers, restaurant servers and janitors began getting vaccinations, starting at a drive-up site in the Natomas High School parking lot.
第一批农场工人、餐馆服务员和看门人开始接种疫苗，接种地点是在纳托马斯高中(Natomas High School)停车场的一个免下车站点。
The county on Thursday afternoon was also expected to begin offering the first inoculations with the new single-shot Johnson & Johnson vaccine.
周四下午，该县还有望开始提供强生公司新型单针疫苗的首批接种。
Some 2,000 people were scheduled to get the vaccines Thursday at the Natomas appointment-only venue, which has now become a regular Thursday inoculation site, organized by county health officials, Urgent Care Now and the city of Sacramento through Councilwoman Angelique Ashby’s office.
约2000人计划周四在纳托马斯的预约场所接种疫苗，该场所现在已成为常规接种地点，由县卫生官员、急救中心和萨克拉门托市议员安杰丽克·阿什比(Angelique Ashby)的办公室组织。
Morning appointments like Yazmin Rodriguez, though, got Pfizer’s vaccine. A server, bartender and fill-in manager at Chevy’s on the River, Rodriguez said she was tipped off to her group’s inclusion by a friend in the industry. She’d been protecting herself as much as possible throughout the pandemic, but still worried about coronavirus transfer at the restaurant.
不过，像亚兹明·罗德里格斯的预约，只得到了辉瑞公司的疫苗。罗德里格斯是河边雪佛兰(Chevy’s)的一名服务员、酒保和临时经理，她说自己是由一个业内朋友告诉她的。在整个疫情期间，她一直在尽可能地保护自己，但仍然担心餐厅里的冠状病毒传播。
“I’m not comfortable (being at the restaurant), but that’s what I do for a living, so I do it. I take my precautions all the time — wear gloves, wear my mask the right way all the time,” Rodriguez said. “But yeah, it’s hard to do that. And now I’m going to feel more comfortable, you know?”
“(在餐馆吃饭)我不舒服，但这是我的工作，所以我就这么做。”罗德里格斯说:“我一直都在采取预防措施——戴手套，戴口罩，一直都戴对了。”但是，是的，这很不舒服。现在我感觉舒服多了，你知道吗?”
Food service workers were originally slated to be vaccinated alongside teachers in Sacramento County, as was the case in most other California counties. But they were quietly pushed to the back of Group 1B, where they stood as of last week.
萨克拉门托县的食品服务人员最初计划与教师一起接种疫苗，加州其他大多数县也是如此。但这周他们被悄悄地推到了1B组的后面。
Stephanie and Christopher Cotta received their first Pfizer dose Thursday morning, but could have used it earlier. The siblings, who grow blueberries and grapes in Galt, both contracted COVID-19 last month, possibly from a rural feed store.
斯蒂芬妮和克里斯托弗·科塔(Stephanie Cotta)周四上午接受了他们的第一剂辉瑞(Pfizer)药物，但本可以更早使用。这对兄弟姐妹在高尔特种植蓝莓和葡萄，上月两人都感染了COVID-19，可能是在一家农村饲料商店感染的。
Their symptoms were mild, though, and passed by the time their group was up for vaccination, making the Cottas eligible for immunization. Stephanie got their parents vaccinated at the Natomas site as part of the 65-and-over group, and though the injection Thursday “felt like a punch in the arm,” she said she was glad to have the extra protection.
然而，他们的症状是轻微的，并且在他们的开始接种疫苗时，他们就痊愈了，这使得Cottas有资格接受免疫接种。斯蒂芬妮作为65岁以上人群的一员，在纳托马斯给父母接种了疫苗。虽然周四的注射“感觉像是在胳膊上挨了一拳”，但她说她很高兴有了额外的保护。
Officials said they plan to bring the vaccines to more essential workers in the next few days and weeks in other areas of the county, including setting up a variety of pop-up clinics, some of them served by specially equipped mobile inoculation trucks.
官员们表示，他们计划在未来几天和几周内，将疫苗送到该县其他地区更重要的工作人员手中，包括建立各种临时诊所，其中一些诊所有配备特殊设备的移动接种卡车。
“We’re coming for you,” Urgent Care Now medical director Dr. Rusty Oshita said. His company is one of several dozen clinics working with and getting doses from the county health department.
“我们带着疫苗来找你了，”急救中心的医学主任拉什蒂·奥下(Rusty Oshita)说。他的公司是与县卫生部门合作并从他们那里获得剂量的几十家诊所之一。
The community has applauded essential workers for continuing to go to work daily throughout the pandemic, risking themselves to help bring food to the table. And state and local officials have been promising equity in the distribution of vaccines. But, so far, many of the the state’s “essential workers” have not yet been given access to shots.
社区赞扬工作人员在大流行期间继续每天上班，冒着生命危险帮助人们把食物送到餐桌上。州和地方官员承诺公平分配疫苗。但是，到目前为止，该州的许多“重要工作人员”还没有得到注射的机会。
“This is a monumental day,” Mayor Darrell Steinberg said at the Natomas gathering, where hundreds of cars filtered through the shot zone. “Words are important, but they have to be backed up with action.”
“这是一个具有纪念意义的日子，”市长达雷尔·斯坦伯格(Darrell Steinberg)在纳托马斯的集会上说。“言语固然重要，但必须辅以行动。”
State Sen. Richard Pan, D-Sacramento, a doctor and leading vaccine advocate in California, called the moment notable as well because the community is now making use of a third vaccine that should help increase the number of inoculations and considerably speed up the months-long vaccine effort.
萨克拉门托参议员理查德·潘(Richard Pan)是一名医生，也是加州首屈一指的疫苗倡导者，他称这一时刻同样值得关注，因为社区正在使用第三种疫苗，这将有助于增加接种数量，并大大加快长达数月的疫苗接种工作。
The Johnson & Johnson vaccine is a single shot protocol, making it much simpler and faster than the Pfizer and Moderna vaccines, each of which require recipients to return three to four weeks later for a second dose.
强生公司的疫苗是单针疫苗，比辉瑞公司和Moderna公司的疫苗要简单和快速得多。辉瑞和Moderna公司的疫苗都要求接种者在三到四周后再来注射第二针。
Tests have suggested that the Johnson & Johnson efficacy against infection is lower than Pfizer and Moderna, but health officials nationally have pointed out that the J&J was tested more recently against new and stronger strains of the virus than Pfizer and Moderna were. It is uncertain how well the first two vaccines would have fared in tests involving the new virus strains.
试验表明强生的抗感染功效低于辉瑞和Moderna，但全国卫生官员指出，强生最近的抗新病毒和更强病毒株的测试比辉瑞和Moderna更强。尚不确定前两种疫苗在涉及新病毒株的测试中表现如何。
Health officials also point out that the J&J vaccine has proved to be equally as efficient in stopping the more serious virus infections, the kind that cause hospitalization.
卫生官员还指出，强生公司的疫苗已被证明在阻止更严重的病毒感染方面同样有效。
“Every vaccine is equally effective against hospitalizations and deaths,” Pan said. “I recommend you get the vaccine that is available to you first.”
潘教授说:“每种疫苗对住院和死亡都同样有效。”“我建议你先接种现有的疫苗。”
That was the approach for Patrick Mulvaney, co-owner of Mulvaney’s B&L restaurant in midtown Sacramento. When people ask what company’s vaccine he got, he just says “yes.”
萨克拉门托中城(midtown Sacramento)的Mulvaney’s B&L餐厅(Mulvaney’s B&L restaurant)的共同所有人帕特里克·马尔瓦尼(Patrick Mulvaney)就是这么做的。当人们问他是哪家公司的疫苗时，他只说"有疫苗"
“Scientists are all about mumbo jumbo … efficacy and rates and all that s---. Here’s the deal: if you get a shot, you’re not going to die. If you get a shot, you’re not going to go to the hospital. That’s all you need to know, right?” Mulvaney said.
“科学家们都在胡言乱语……功效和比率之类的东西。”这样吧，如果你有机会，你就不会死。如果你打了疫苗，你就不用去医院了。这就是你需要知道的，对吧?”Mulvaney说。
David Huerta, president of United Service Workers West, said the pandemic has further exposed health and safety issues in California, where front-line workers, notably farm workers and people in the service industry, are most exposed to illness. Some of them lack affordable health care and affordable housing, he said .
西部联合服务工人工会主席大卫·韦尔塔说，大流行进一步暴露了加州的健康和安全问题，那里的一线工人，尤其是农场工人和服务业人员，最容易受到疾病的影响。他说，其中一些人缺乏负担得起的医疗保健和住房。
“Communities of color have been on the front lines,” he said. “We have to work on equity. We have to assure that all working people will have access not only to the vaccine, but (also) ensuring that everybody has access to good jobs and access to health care.”
“有色人种社区一直站在第一线，”他说。“我们必须致力于公平。我们必须确保所有劳动人民不仅能获得疫苗，而且能确保每个人都能获得好的工作和医疗保健。”
The number of people in California who qualify to get a vaccine is expected to jump notably next week, on Monday, when the state is expected to allow counties to open vaccinations for people ages 16 to 64 with underlying health conditions.
下周一，加州有望允许各县为有潜在健康问题的16岁至64岁人群开放疫苗接种，届时，有资格接种疫苗的人数预计将显著增加。
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