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James Kerr, an EMT with Emergency Medical Staffing Solutions, is prepped to receive the Moderna COVID-19 vaccine from public health nurse Pat Moore. (Kimberly Paynter/WHYY)
James Kerr’s full-time job is teaching people how to work in emergency services, and when he’s not teaching, he’s doing the work of a first responder part time.
He loves being able to help people, he said, but this year has had him walking on eggshells, constantly weighing the danger he’s potentially exposing himself to at work, whether it’s at a coronavirus testing site or transporting a COVID-19 patient.