Updated on January 28, 2021 at 6:36 pm
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Drexel University planned to lend nursing students to support a company run by a Drexel graduate student that is now under intense scrutiny for its vaccination partnership with the City of Philadelphia, the university s president said in a statement Thursday.
The plans for the nursing students to work clinical rotations at a vaccination site run by the group called Philly Fighting COVID never materialized, according to Drexel President John Fry.
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But it s the latest revelation in a still-evolving story about a 22-year-old graduate student with no medical experience gaining access to thousands of vaccines and building partnerships with some of Philadelphia s most powerful institutions.