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Medical students improve access to COVID-19 vaccine information for multilingual community UMass Medical School Communications May 05, 2021 A group of first-year School of Medicine students are working to increase the accessibility of COVID-19 information for non-English speaking residents of Worcester. The students recruited volunteers to provide multilingual services and materials on the coronavirus and COVID-19 vaccines. From left: First-year School of Medicine students Sarah Danforth, Maia Fefer, Laura Labb and Sabine Shaughnessy Maia Fefer, Sarah Danforth, Sabine Shaughnessy and Laura Labb are all fluent Spanish speakers. Their group provides document translation, in-person vaccine clinic translation and one-on-one phone calls in a variety of languages, in collaboration with the student-run Crisis and Emergency Preparedness Committee. ....