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White House Easter eggs handed out to people getting vaccinated in Indio

“I received this really cool egg from the White House," Lindsey Hauer, a Palm Desert resident said. "I guess it’s a part of their traditional Easter egg hunt and since they’re not doing it this year, they donated them which is really cool," she added.

Riverside County received two boxes full of these wooden Easter eggs from the White House.

“I’m going to put it with things I collect," Dennis Giannetti said. "My wife is right behind me and she has one too and she may decide ultimately where it goes," he added.

Some people knew exactly what to do with their Easter egg.

“I’ve got some nieces and nephews and I think I’ll probably try to do an Easter egg hunt with them and have this as the special prize," Hauer said.

While others weren’t too sure.

“Keep it or give it to somebody or what?" Edmond Harris, a Coachella resident said.

The purpose of the eggs are to encourage people getting vaccinated.

“At this point anything to encourage people to get their vaccines is a good idea,” Giannetti said.

“It’s really exciting to know that the white house is standing behind us and supporting the hard work that we’re doing here to make sure that we’re able to get the vaccines in the hands of folks who aren’t always having access to it," Heather Jackson, the senior public information officer for Riverside University Health Medical Center told News Channel 3.

Jackson said the county received 800 wooden Easter eggs.

“They sent them to their federally qualified health centers around the nation; a select few," she added.

The county passed them out to people at their Indio and Riverside clinics on Saturday.

“Some people cried," Jackson said. "We had some of our patients actually break down in line as they received it because we had a patient today who she lost her husband to COVID and they got it at the same time and he ended up getting hospitalized and she wasn’t and so for her it was so sentimental," she said.

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