Avra Messe speaks about her plans to graduate from nursing school in August of 2021 and doing temporary work administering COVID vaccinations while applying for jobs. She speaks about the hesitancy towards vaccinations, especially among health providers. She discusses the limited amount of vaccines in New York City, her children's and her own social life, the experience of going to vote as a family , and tension experienced in her neighborhood as a lesbian. Messe also talks about becoming healthier and how she is looking forward to a day without a mask.
This interview was originally the second session of a two-session interview, but the first session was lost before the interview was transferred to the archives
Nurses; COVID-19 Pandemic, 2020-; COVID-19 (Disease)--Social Aspects; Epidemics--Social Aspects; Social distancing (Public health) and recreation; COVID-19 vaccines; United States Politics and government 21st century; Bedford-Stuyvesant (New York, N.Y.); Messe, Avra, 1973
Format
oral histories
Genre
Interviews
Date
2021
Physical Description
30 pages
Note (Biographical)
Avra Messe is a nurse and artist who lives in Brooklyn with her partner, two teenagers, two dogs, and a cat
Note
Interviewed by Denise Milstein on January 14, 2021
Note (Provenance)
Avra Messe, Gift, transferred from Columbia Center for Oral History Research 2023