First responders in Massachusetts will roll up their sleeves across the state on Monday to receive their first doses of the COVID-19 vaccine. Some communities have already administered the vaccine to emergency responders. In Needham, the city’s public health department will administer the vaccine to police and firefighters from there and surrounding towns. Emergency responders in Dover and Medfield will.
UMass nursing grads train medical students how to administer COVID-19 vaccines Brian Lee, Telegram & Gazette
WORCESTER The strong need for volunteers to administer the COVID-19 vaccine literally received a shot in the arm from student volunteers Saturday at the Worcester Senior Center.
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Students in UMass Medical School’s Graduate School of Nursing trained more than 160 medical school students in intermuscular injection.
The training will allow them to inoculate city residents, as well as people from six local communities as part of a regional effort, with the COVID-19 vaccine.
As COVID-19 cases surge throughout the state and Central Massachusetts, 380 health care workers at UMass Memorial Medical Center and St. Vincent Hospital either have the virus or are under quarantine.