DePaul’s Student Government Association relaunched their Covid-19 vaccination campaign at the beginning of winter quarter with a special focus on the booster. The SGA campaign is encouraging students to receive their booster before the university’s March 1 deadline and reduce vaccine hesitancy overall. The booster campaign will include a video series similar to their initial.
In an effort to counter low vaccination rates in South Shore, Ernest Sanders, executive director at South Shore Works, sent a team of “street wellness fellows” to distribute masks and hand sanitizers to community members in South Shore every day. The fellows also shared their own, unscripted experience with the vaccine to neighbors. “That free.
The latest Corps actions, which came as COVID-19 cases surged across the country as a result of the omicron variant, brought the total number of Marines booted out of the service for refusal to 169.