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From Brookings to Baker City, Oregonians are getting vaccinated to protect their families, their neighbors, and their communities. Hear stories from Oregonians on why they decided to get vaccinated and make your appointment today.

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Barb, Roseburg

With this COVID, especially with this last strain that's going through right now, I got vaccinated as soon as I could. But I'm encouraging everyone I can to get vaccinated because it's really the only thing we have — I mean we do distancing, we wear masks, wash our hands, we do all of that stuff — but the vaccine is the one thing that will help our bodies to fight it off if we are exposed to it.

Beth, Gold Beach

I wanted to be a model for our unsheltered community members and it worked out fine. As soon as I got vaccinated, we held a vaccine clinic up here in Gold Beach, and our most consistent unsheltered community members were first in line to get their Moderna, and they came back for their second dose.

Matt, Ashland

The notion as a parent and the worry that something could happen bad to your child as a result of this was always kind of a lurking feeling in the kind of bottom of your stomach. And as I related earlier, that is the real reason why, when my kids got their first vaccine of the series it was a profound sigh of relief.

LeeAnn, Prineville

Two weeks to the day, my son got a fever after starting school. And I was like, "Oh man, this is it." So we all had to stay home, he had to get tested, the whole nine yards. And I was like, "This is how it feels." It's just so uncomfortable and you just don't know. Luckily he was negative and he was fine, but again that worry is always there with any sniffle, any fever, any like change. So now being vaccinated, it's a little bit more like, "Oh I have that sense of relief and I can go forward with one more step closer to getting to where we want to be again."

Tina, Trail

The church knew I was scared, they're all "Tina! Tina!" I was so scared.

And I didn't feel it! And then, that's it! And then I went and had my second one done, and I don't feel any different.

Tammy, Roseburg

So, it was kind of just a matter of that in the final analysis. I'm gonna step up, and I'm going to take this vaccine, I'm gonna walk into it, and the known risk, even though it is a small, a very small risk.

And I was able to make the choice to walk into that rather than wander around waiting for COVID to walk into me.

Terri, Roseburg

At first, I thought there's no way I'm doing this, and then some of my friends began to get sick, and I thought, "This is real." And you know I kind of went along with the, "Well if just stay away from people and I'll be ok." Wrong. So I'm thinking OK, I can either run the risk of getting COVID, which is huge now, or I can take the vaccine, with the teeny chance that I'll have a side-effect.

Richard, Baker City

I think that the risks are super low, the benefits are super high. And being a business owner, there's risks in everything. You weigh those risks against the potential outcomes. And the benefits of this vaccine so much surpass the risk. For me, it's not even really a topic of conversation.