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PRT pledges to help seniors get to vaccination sites
Pocatello Regional Transit
POCATELLO, Idaho (KIFI)-Pocatello Regional Transit is reassuring senior citizens they will have transportation to their COVID-19 vaccination appointment, with a donation.
The Area 5 Agency on Aging’s transportation program has partnered with PRT to provide rides to seniors over 60. Those people will be allowed to utilize PRT’s door-to-door service, Monday through Friday to get to vaccination appointments.
The agency’s program “provides services to senior citizens 60 years and older with health or functional limitations which curtail their ability to drive. The program allows seniors to use PRT’s transportation services for (1) life-sustaining trips such as medical visits, shopping, banking and employment; and (2) quality of life trips which include recreational and social trips, community outings, and visits with family to reduce isolation and increase physical and social activity.”
ISU prepared to help store vaccine
ISU
POCATELLO, Idaho (KIFI/KIDK) - Idaho State University has taken delivery of a new freezer that will help the Southeast Idaho Public Health District store the district’s supply of Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine.
It is designed to store a variety of items common to research facilities, like tissue samples, DNA, and RNA, at temperatures as low as -70 to -86 degrees Celsius.
It will be used until the district’s freezer arrives sometime in January.
“We actually got two of these freezers for our labs in Pocatello early this year but only began using one of them before the pandemic caused us to move to distance-based instruction and significantly impacted our research,” said ISU Department of Biomedical and Pharmaceutical Sciences Chair Marvin Schulte. “We didn’t even fully unwrap the second one, but we knew we would need it eventually. I’m glad that they will be able to use it.”