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Port Nelson marine pilots Dean Hardman, left, and Shaun Chase were some of the first in the region to receive the Covid-19 vaccine.
Marine pilots Shaun Chase and Dean Hardman were among the first people in the region to get a Covid-19 vaccine as frontline port workers lined up for their shots.
A ship’s captain who had experienced the h4n4 bird flu and Zika virus during his time at sea, Chase said he appreciated the need for the vaccine, given the proximity to international ships that border workers operated under.
“It’s probably not so much safer for us but certainly for others around us – there's that pressure on ourselves that when you’re sick, you’re sick, but exposing other people to it who’ll go then home to their families, that’s always been a big concern.”