Navarro is one of a growing number of medical and nursing students who have been fully vaccinated and can now help others. Nursing students are administering vaccines or checking in patients, while medical students like Navarro are working with the UVA Latino Health Initiative as interpreters, educating Spanish-speaking populations about the vaccine and helping them sign up for appointments, fill out forms, get their questions answered, understand possible side effects and schedule second doses.
All of these students are part of an ongoing effort to use every available resource to ramp up vaccine distribution across Virginia, and to do so in an accessible and equitable manner.