The Thackray Museum of Medicine in Leeds, England, is being used as a Covid-19 vaccine centre
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The Thackray Museum of Medicine in Leeds is playing a part in the UK’s historic coronavirus vaccination programme by hosting a Covid-19 hub where people can receive doses of the Pfizer/BioNTech vaccine. The museum has adapted its conference area into a vaccination centre, which welcomed high priority patients this week including care home staff. The initiative was set up in partnership with Leeds and York Partnership NHS Foundation.
The museum, located next to St James’s Hospital, charts the history of medicine, housing a collection of 47,000 items of historical medical equipment. One of the galleries, called Disease Detectives, focuses on the technology used to diagnose ailments. Nat Edwards, the museum director, says in a statement: “Just to witness the very best of modern medicine in action alongside the whole history of humanity’s centuries of effort to understand and overcome disease is hard to describe.”