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HOUSTON – As a COVID-19 vaccine nears approval by the Food and Drug Administration, a Houston-area nurse is encouraging her colleagues to get vaccinated once shipments arrive. Irma Ikalina’s story of what the coronavirus has done to her family serves as the sad and sole reason she’s on a crusade to get people vaccinated. “It’s hard to even talk about it.”Ikalina, her mother, her father, her daughter, and her mother-in-law chose nursing as a profession. Overall, McFarlane stresses Houston-area hospitals have not had as overwhelming an experience treating COVID-19 patients as hospitals in other large cities. “If (a vaccine) could have saved my mother-in-law, my dad, I would have given it to them in a heartbeat,” Ikalina said.

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