By Julia Bertino
(Undated) -- A Nebraska volunteer group is helping health departments with administering COVID-19 vaccines.
Megan Wade, coordinator of the Eastern Nebraska Medical Reserve Corps, tells WOWT 6 News that they are currently working with three area health departments. Sarpy/Cass, Douglas County and Three Rivers. “We help with anything and everything from first aid services, to shelter support, to now COVID activities.”
MRC volunteers help with contact tracing, logistics, and mask distribution. But now, as counties continue to vaccinate more people in Phase 1B, their work has been critical at the vaccine clinics.
Pam Denney is a retired nurse, who spent more than 50 years in the profession. Denney retired in 2018, but these days you’ll find Pam on the front lines of the pandemic response volunteering with the Eastern Nebraska MRC. “For the health departments, there’s no way they have the staff to administer all the vaccines."