Staffers at the Cambridge Health Alliance clinic for COVID-19 patients in Somerville RN Erik Westhaver and Medical Assistants Nancy Morales and Carla Ayala show off their newly vaccinated arms. (Courtesy Dr. Anna Rabkina, Cambridge Health Alliance)
Last month, primary care doctor John Adams realized that coronavirus vaccines would be coming very soon, and he wasn’t ready for them. He didn’t know enough yet to counsel patients or make his own decision about whether to get one. And some of his colleagues at the Cambridge Health Alliance COVID-19 clinic in Somerville, Mass., felt the same. It was very much like, ‘We need to learn more about how these things work, because they’re coming fast, Dr. Adams said, and we all sort of shared these doubts.