February 18, 2021
Third-year pharmacy student Shannon Patterson administers the first dose of the Moderna COVID-19 vaccine on a health care worker.
By Connie Young, College of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences
Vice Dean of External Relations Linda Garrelts MacLean started seeing a growing demand for pharmacy students in April 2020, just two months after the COVID-19 pandemic officially kicked off in the US.
First came the requests by public health officials for students to help at COVID-19 testing sites. Soon, the need for student pharmacists and their skills in being able to communicate with patients and knowledge in administering vaccines became a bright spot in a very challenging year of virtual learning.