More than 83,000 COVID-19 vaccines were administered by more than 1,700 volunteers with UMass Medical School’s Vaccine Corps at the large-scale vaccination center at Worcester State University.
UMMS students bring COVID-19 vaccine to underserved downtown Worcester By Bryan Goodchild and Susan E.W. Spencer
UMass Medical School Communications April 20, 2021
Nine UMass Medical School student volunteers administered COVID-19 vaccinations to the community on Monday, April 19, at the YWCA Central Massachusetts in downtown Worcester. The mobile clinic, which delivered roughly 300 doses of the Moderna vaccine, was one of scores so far deploying trained health care personnel as well as nonclinical volunteers in the Vaccine Corps, a program organized by UMass Medical School’s Commonwealth Medicine to bring COVID-19 vaccinations to where people need them the most. The event itself was organized by the Worcester Department of Health and Human Services.
WORCESTER - Residents who expected to get the one-dose Johnson & Johnson vaccine at a city-sponsored clinic may be getting a dose of Pfizer instead, but city health officials still consider the Johnson & Johnson vaccine a good shot.
Out of an abundance of caution, the Centers for Disease Control & Prevention and the Food and Drug Administration issued a federal recommendation that Johnson & Johnson shots not be given while they review six confirmed cases of a rare and severe blood clot reported in women who had received the vaccine.
In response to the recommendation from the CDC and FDA, the Massachusetts Department of Public Health on Tuesday directed all providers to pause administration of Johnson & Johnson vaccines.