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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.
This too shall pass the blues
By Kathy Monnin - Versailles News
Blues are not just a color scheme or a music genre. You can call it the blues, doldrums, gloominess, downheartedness, unhappiness, etc. The fact is life is forever filled with ups and downs, regardless of residence, age, wealth, marital status, or any other identifying marker, such as, sex, race, or ethnicity. Some people think difficulties are the usual and customary part of Life with the occasional day when things go calmly and serenely. Personally, I could not be optimistic if I viewed heartache and struggle as the usual and recurrent part of life.
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At the start of the pandemic in March we took the decision to make online access to our news free of charge by taking down our paywall. At a time where accurate information about Covid-19 was vital to our community, this was the right decision – even though it meant a drop in our income. In order to help safeguard the future of our journalism, the time has now come to reinstate our paywall, However,
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