“I received the COVID vaccine for my own health prevention, promotion and the patients I serve. As a Public Health Infection Control Nurse, it is my responsibility to provide quality care and serve my community. I am glad we have vaccines to help prevent disease.”

Lindsey LaminackPublic Health Nurse

“Vaccination is important to me and to my family. It is the best way to protect my family from a virus that cannot just make us sick, but a serious health crisis, time in the hospital, and even death. When the vaccine became available, it was the top priority for me and for my family. But, it was also important because I care about my community. I care about my elderly neighbors. I care about the seniors who use the Dr. Michael and Catherine Bullock Recreation and Community Center of Edmundite Missions here in Selma. I care about their health and their lives. We are all in this together, and we must think of one another and support and protect one another.”

Dave BellEdmundite Missions

“I chose to get vaccinated because, through all the noise of the media and the politics, the science was clear: the vaccines work. I had faith that the force behind developing the vaccines was the desire to keep people healthy, and it is the same desire that drives me to care for my patients every day at Hale County Hospital and Clinic.”

Meghan BondsPhysician

“I received the vaccine to fight COVID-19 because I believe in protection for everyone including my community. The vaccine allows me to be a part of the solution, and it places us one step closer to a year of peace. I encourage the community to play their part in getting vaccinated, so we can all be a part of the solution for the future and have a safe place for our children and family!”

Jacqulyn Davidson-BooneMayor

“This pandemic has disproportionately affected minority communities, particularly with long-term illness and death from complications of the COVID-19 virus. Getting vaccinated is critically important simply because it saves lives, protecting families and individuals, many who could be seriously impacted by the effects of COVID-19 without it.”

Christopher M. ToddPastor

“The reason the getting the vaccine was important to me was to make sure that I protect not only my loves ones, my coworkers and church members but myself. The people you know, and love depends on you to do the right thing. It starts from leading by example; I got my first, second vaccine and the booster too. The vaccine affects everyone different, stop listening to the negative things people are saying and get yourself vaccinated. Now, I’m a Community Health Worker partnering with Rural Alabama Prevention Center; Shot on the Spot Vaccination Effort to help bring a difference in my community.”

Ada WebbOutreach Community Project

“The reason I chose to take the vaccine is because too many African Americans were dying from COVID-19, and as the pastor of the church I could not tell the members to get vaccinated if I didn’t do it. Therefore, I decided when the first opportunity came, I would become vaccinated I must admit that I was hesitant at first because of the study done years ago in Tuskegee, but I realize that we need to move beyond the historic problems that are clear and take advantage of the medical discoveries and the scientific aids that are available in the 21st century.”

Dale BraxtonPastor Snow Hill Christian Church

“I received the vaccine because I believe the vaccine is necessary if we are to be successful in defeating and controlling the COVID 19. I am concerned that the vaccine helps my body and it also keeps me from exposing myself to others with whom I come in contact.”

Bob TurnerBlack Belt Community Foundation