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Enterprise staff ABINGTON As students return from spring vacation, possibly having traveled with family, Abington Public Schools is offering optional free rapid COVID-19 testing to help ensure a safe return back to school buildings. Assistant Superintendent Felicia Moschella notified families on Wednesday that the voluntary testing would be made available on Sunday, April 25, the day before Abington is set to return and continue with full in-person learning. All grade levels, including high schoolers, have returned full time in town. The rapid antigen testing will be conducted in conjunction with the Abington Fire Department, Public Health Director Marty Golightly and Lindsay Wright, the town s public health nurse. ....
Massachusetts has trained community volunteers on how to dispense vaccines since 2001; So why aren’t they being used? Updated Mar 02, 2021; Almost two decades before the COVID-19 pandemic, communities in Massachusetts began training locals to help during an emergency health situation, including how to dispense vaccines. Since 2001, the state helped fund local communities to identify more than 603 primary and back-up Emergency Dispensing Sites (EDS), formed 45 Medical Reserve Corps (MRC) units, and recruited thousands of clinical and non-clinical volunteers statewide, according to the training manual. Those volunteers are trained on things such as preparing for a vaccine that would be administered through “two doses of vaccine separated by at least three weeks” to about 80% of the population and proper vaccine storage in a refrigerator. ....