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A small team of nurses and support staff set up tables and medical supplies inside the Open Hearth homeless shelter for men in Hartford.
Shelter clients and employees, all masked, lined up to register at a check-in table. Geriann Gallagher, an advanced practice registered nurse, brought clients over one at a time to her vaccination station. Austin Anglin, 67, sat down.
“Have you ever had to use an epinephrine pen for a swollen tongue or shortness of breath?” Gallagher asked.
“No,” Anglin replied.
“I’m going to use your left arm today, right?” Gallagher confirmed, before cleaning the area with an alcohol wipe and using a syringe to inject a dose of the Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine into Anglin’s arm.
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A small team of nurses and support staff set up tables and medical supplies inside the Open Hearth homeless shelter for men in Hartford.
Shelter clients and employees, all masked, lined up to register at a check-in table. Geriann Gallagher, an advanced practice registered nurse, brought clients over one at a time to her vaccination station. Austin Anglin, 67, sat down.
“Have you ever had to use an epinephrine pen for a swollen tongue or shortness of breath?” Gallagher asked.
“No,” Anglin replied.
“I’m going to use your left arm today, right?” Gallagher confirmed, before cleaning the area with an alcohol wipe and using a syringe to inject a dose of the Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine into Anglin’s arm.