Last week EMS1’s editorial director, Greg Friese, a friend, EMS leader, and sometimes competitor, wrote an editorial about the importance of EMS providers taking the COVID-19 vaccine.
Today, Dec. 14, 2020, is a day we should all memorialize: It’s the day the COVID-19 vaccine was first administered to the American public.
Today I must borrow Greg’s words and echo his message by saying, “I will get the COVID-19 vaccine. I hope you do the same.”
I stand proudly alongside other EMS leaders who have stated their support of the vaccine: NAEMT’s Matt Zavadsky; Hilton Head Island Fire Rescue’s EMS chief, Tom Bouthillet; DC Fire and EMS’s chief, medical director, and firefighter/EMTs; and many of our support organizations like the American Ambulance Association, which today started the hashtag