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Cailey Gleeson, News Editor|March 14, 2021
Students and faculty from DePaul’s School of Nursing (SON) are working with the Chicago Department of Public Health (CDPH) to administer Covid-19 vaccinations around the city.
SON Director and Chief Nursing Officer Dr. Suling Li said she was invited by the city in December to attend a meeting to explore the university’s interest in having students and faculty participate in the vaccination campaign.
“I was very excited to hear about this initiative and immediately responded with a yes,” Li said. “With the support of the [College of Science and Health], we then established the partnership agreement between DePaul and the city and called out for faculty and students to participate. Nursing faculty and students responded enthusiastically to the call.”
Covid-19 leaves student nurses anxious about the future
Kennedy Curtis, Contributing Writer|February 14, 2021
FILE – In this Thursday, Feb. 11, 2021 file photo, pharmacy technician Sochi Evans fills a syringe with a Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine at Texas Southern University in Houston. Coronavirus cases are continuing to decline in the U.S. after a winter surge. Researchers at Johns Hopkins University say the seven-day average of new coronavirus cases in the country dropped below 100,000 on Friday, Feb. 12 for the first time since November 4. (Brett Coomer/Houston Chronicle via AP, File)
Covid-19 has taken an obvious toll on nurses working on the frontlines, but what about those who are about to enter the healthcare profession?
M8 motorway closed northbound between J14 Fermoy and J13 Mitchelstown
A car and a truck collided close to the Moorepark exit at around 7:30am.
It s believed there are no serious injuries however the truck has shed its load.
Emergency services are at the scene and are turning cars stuck behind the incident around.
Motorway service crews are also working to clear the road of debris.
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Ahead of the weekend, Gardaí have once again called on the public not to flout the COVID-19 restrictions, in order to help stem the spread of the virus.
The call comes after An Garda Síochána revealed they have issued more than 400 fines for non-essential travel since they commenced enforcing fines for breaches of the travel restrictions on Monday of last week.
Gardaí said the vast majority of those, more than 300, were issued over the past weekend for suspected incidents under Operation Fanacht for breaches of public heath regulations relating to non-essential travel. As of last Friday evening (January 15), 74 fines for non-essential travel had been processed. The fines issued over the weekend will now be checked and processed. Once these are processed, definitive figures will be available later this week, said a Garda spokesperson.