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Florinda Velasquez, 74, prepares to receive her second dose of Covid vaccine from medical assistant Ana Barcenas at Lancaster Family Health Center in southeast Salem on Thursday, March 4. (Rachel Alexander/Salem Reporter)
It was just before 4 p.m. on a recent afternoon and the parking lot at the Lancaster Family Health Center was nearly full.
Inside, Florinda Velasquez, 74, was among dozens of people cycling through the clinic’s daily vaccination drive, staffed by bilingual nurses…
