Hoping to vaccinate millions against COVID-19, officials seek to expand Virginiaâs health care workforce A provider with Augusta Health administers a dose of the Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine this week. (Source: Courtesy of Augusta Health) By Kate Masters | December 21, 2020 at 12:12 PM EST - Updated December 21 at 12:12 PM
As Virginia takes the first steps in an unprecedented vaccination campaign, there are still questions health officials canât answer â from when the vaccine will become widely available to how many doses the state will receive over the next few months.
Another detail theyâre trying to confirm is who will be administering the COVID-19 vaccines. Health Commissioner Dr. Norman Oliver put out an âurgentâ call for volunteers earlier this month, urging health care providers to sign up for the stateâs Medical Reserve Corps. Even in normal times â and with diseases far less deadly than COVID-19 â coordinating a statewide vac
Volunteers with the Virginia Medical Reserve Corps will begin vaccinating healthcare workers next week. Author: Adriana De Alba Updated: 6:30 PM EST December 17, 2020
NORFOLK, Va. They ve volunteered to help people during the challenging year of the coronavirus pandemic.
Now, volunteers with the Virginia Medical Reserve Corps are gearing up for the next big undertaking: getting people vaccinated.
More than 12,815 medical volunteers are on standby, ready to administer the COVID-19 vaccine. They’ll help with injections and logistics of the vaccination campaign.
In total, 700 of the volunteers who have stepped up to help with this effort are in Hampton Roads. The demand for help is high, and more volunteers are still needed.
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Governor Ned Lamont says the first Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine could be administered in Connecticut as soon as Tuesday, as the FDA is expected to give emergency approval on Saturday. Meanwhile, Sacred Heart University is training a team of health-care students, faculty and staff and local volunteers to help distribute the vaccine.
Officials anticipate more than 230,000 Connecticut residents would be vaccinated within the first month.
“Very soon over the next three, four, five, days we will be shipping to our hospitals, and there the hospitals would allocate according to need. Probably focusing on the highest risk employees first,” Lamont said.
Sacred Heart University activates Medical Reserve Corps to help educate and vaccinate This is what I’m training for and what I’m meant to do. It’s more of a duty and responsibility. The opportunity came along, and I couldn’t resist it. Author: Matt Caron Updated: 5:40 PM EST December 10, 2020
FAIRFIELD, Conn. Responding to the COVID crisis takes an army. Luckily, Sacred Heart University in Fairfield has an army of volunteers standing by and stepping up to help end this pandemic.
They are called the Medical Reserve Corps. Sacred Heart is one of only 15 schools across the country to have such a program. The school is also known for its robust nursing program.
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The barnlike marketplace building that houses commercial vendors during the Barnstable County Fair will have a new life as a coronavirus testing site as early as next week.
An additional site is opening up at the Cape Cod Melody Tent in Hyannis next week, to be followed by expanded test sites operated by Outer Cape Health Services at its offices in Wellfleet and Provincetown.
While the new sites offer expanded molecular PCR tests for COVID-19, the tests won’t be free for all, state legislators said Tuesday morning.
“It’s not a Stop the Spread site,” state Sen. Julian Cyr, D-Truro, said during a press teleconference Tuesday morning.