Ports around the U.S. are rolling out vaccines for seafarers, extending a lifeline to thousands of mostly foreign workers who’ve spent the pandemic isolated aboard ships ensuring goods kept trading across a battered global economy.
Read more about Weary seafarers come ashore in US for J&J one-dose Covid vaccine shots on Business Standard. It is the preferred vaccine for maritime workers because they re often docked for just a day or two at a port.
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Ports around the U.S. are rolling out vaccines for seafarers, extending a lifeline to thousands of mostly foreign workers who ve spent the pandemic isolated aboard ships ensuring goods kept trading across a battered global economy.
From Boston to Houston and Los Angeles, and even in smaller trade gateways like Gulfport, Miss., local health officials and nonprofits are boarding container ships, tankers and other cargo carriers to administer COVID-19 shots or, when possible, shuttling crews to nearby pharmacies and clinics.
The preferred vaccine for maritime workers: the one-dose Johnson & Johnson shot, because they re often docked for just a day or two.
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Nobska being hauled into a US Coast Guard rescue helicopter last Friday after the wheelhouse and bow were engulfed in flames when the 100 foot stern trawler was working off Cape Cod.
A Coast Guard fixed wing aircraft located the trawler and, after retreating to the stern all five crew were instructed to take to the water where rescuers were lowered to retrieve them before all were returned to shore relatively unscathed by their ordeal. A video of the event is viewable HERE and gives a clear idea of the bravery of the Coast Guard personnel around the world who do this sort of thing all the time.