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CSUCI nursing students volunteering to help with COVID-19 vaccination
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Share: For Cal State University Channel Islands nursing student Carina Fasano it s hope that the vaccine is finally our answer to beating the coronavirus.
Fasano joined 200 other CSUCI nursing students volunteering to vaccinate people. Carina said she s cried with some of the people getting vaccinated especially the elderly.
CSUCI nursing professor Nancy Mitchell says the program s nursing student volunteers have administered roughly 1,500 shots in Ventura and Santa Barbara counties. Now the volunteers are fanning out across Los Angeles County as well.
CSUCI nursing program chair Lynette Landry says the program will work with LA County Department of Public Health out of Dodger Stadium once that opens back up.
10,000-plus COVID-19 vaccine shots given in Ventura County; mass vaccinations months away Tom Kisken, Ventura County Star
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About 10,000 COVID vaccine shots were administered in a week in Ventura County with a total of nearly 30,000 doses expected to have arrived in the region by New Year s.
The first of two doses has been given to health care workers at eight acute care hospitals across the county, officials said. Pharmacies and public health workers were scheduled to begin vaccinating workers and residents at nursing homes and other long-term care facilities across the county as soon as Monday in efforts likely to continue for weeks.