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Friends Central s Kayla Foy is Main Line Student of the Week

A senior at Friends’ Central School, Kayla Foy has been a volunteer with the Black Doctors COVID-19 Consortium, an organization that has helped test more than 15,000 people for COVID-19. As a volunteer, she has gathered information such as race, gender, ethnicity and medical conditions of those tested for COVID-19. Because of her work as a frontline healthcare worker, Kayla Foy was one of the first people in the region to receive a COVID-19 vaccine. She took a short pause in volunteering with BDCC last September to focus on her advanced Friends’ Central classes, ACT preparation, and college admission (and has received scholarships to two colleges recently.) Kayla Foy will resume volunteering on a full-time basis for her senior project in early spring. She also is one of the leaders of the Black Student Forum at Friends’ Central, and she participated in the Annenberg Symposium in 2020. Kayla Foy also has participated in Orchestra (viola), basketball and weightlifting at

17-year-old frontline volunteer gets COVID-19 vaccine

17-year-old frontline volunteer gets COVID-19 vaccine Published  Teen working on the front lines as a healthcare worker is among first to get vaccine Kayla Foy, a 17-year-old volunteer with the Black Doctors COVID-19 Consortium, was among some of the first people to receive the Pfizer vaccine. PHILADELPHIA - A 17-year-old self-proclaimed future doctor has been putting in hundreds of volunteer hours since the very beginning of this pandemic. As a frontline healthcare worker, she’s one of the first to get the vaccine.  Kayla Foy is also hoping to inspire younger generations to do the same.     Foy is a volunteer with the Black Doctors COVID-19 Consortium, an organization that has helped test more than 15,000 people for COVID-19. 

COVID in Pennsylvania: Black Doctors Covid Consortium 17-year-old volunteer gets coronavirus vaccine in Philadelphia

Kayla Foy is hoping her story will encourage more people to do the same. Foy helps with data collection for the consortium, which tests at-risk communities for COVID-19 for free. Foy tells Action News she hopes to inspire people her age and in the Black community to get vaccinated. I think people my age are also listening to their parents, their parents might be unsure about taking the vaccine. So they re like, If my parents aren t sure than I m not sure. But I just want people to know that it s ok, I m ok, I m doing great so far, she said.

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