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Maria Torres is 106 years old.
瑪麗亞-託雷斯今年106歲。
Knitting and solving crossword puzzles is how the mother of 12 passes the time in her small apartment in Los Angeles, California For the last couple of weeks, Torres, a native from Guerrero, Mexico, who migrated to the US in 1976 had been asking her grandson, Frankie Mercado, for the cove in 19 vaccine E.
編織和解決填字遊戲是12歲的母親如何在她位於加利福尼亞州洛杉磯的小公寓裡打發時間過去幾周,來自墨西哥格雷羅的託雷斯,1976年移民到美國的人一直在向她的孫子弗蘭基-梅爾卡多詢問19疫苗中的鴿子E。
I heard that someone who gets vaccinated doesn't die soon, and that's what I don't want yet.
聽說打了疫苗的人不會很快死,這是我還不想的。
I want to live some more days, whatever God grants me.
我想多活一些日子,無論上帝賜予我什麼。
But my will is that to last more days.
但我的意願是,要多堅持幾天。
But Mercado couldn't imagine taking his grandmother, who uses a walker out of the apartment and driving her to a vaccination clinic.
但梅卡多無法想象將使用助行器的祖母帶出公寓,開車送她去接種疫苗的診所。
Just getting Torres from the kitchen to her bedroom is an ordeal.
只要把Torres從廚房弄到臥室,就是一種考驗。
Enter CJ Bartholomew, a nurse manager for care ambulance, and when I heard way, have this lady was 106 years old.
進入CJ Bartholomew,護理救護車的護士經理,當我聽到方式,有這位女士是106歲。
She survived the last pandemic, and she's really not able to leave her house.
上一次的大流行,她活了下來,她真的是足不出戶。
I figured coming in for a few hours on the weekend is the least I could do it.
我想,週末來幾個小時,是我最起碼能做到的。
On February 13th, Bartholomew paid tours a visit to administer the vaccine.
2月13日,巴託洛繆拜訪了旅遊團,為其注射疫苗。
Nurse Bartholomew stayed for 30 minutes after he gave her the vaccine to observe any reaction in Torres, who is healthy but has Type two diabetes.
護士Bartholomew在給她注射疫苗後停留了30分鐘,以觀察託雷斯的任何反應,他是健康的,但患有二型糖尿病。
He emphasized that the house call was a special occasion, and as much as they would like to help more people like Torres, there re sources are limited.
他強調,上門服務是一個特殊的場合,儘管他們很想幫助更多像託雷斯這樣的人,但再來源有限。
Her grandson was thankful, saying he can't imagine life without the woman who has raised him since he was five.
她的孫子很感激,說他無法想象沒有這個從他五歲起就撫養他的女人的生活。
I don't want her Thio be separated for me and she's lived this long life, and the last thing I would want for her is to die alone and I can't visit her.
我不希望她的Thio為我分開,她活了這麼久,我最不希望她一個人死去,我不能去看她。
This is the second pandemic Torres has lived through.
這是託雷斯經歷的第二次大流行。
She was a toddler during the 1918 Spanish flu, with one shot down and another to go.
1918年西班牙流感期間,她還是一個蹣跚學步的孩子,一槍打倒,再一槍打去。
Torres says she hopes family and friends will soon start visiting again.
託雷斯說,她希望家人和朋友很快就能再次開始拜訪。