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For some volunteers helping with the Covid-19 vaccination effort, early vaccination is a bonus CNN 1/31/2021 By Lauren Mascarenhas, CNN © Mario Tama/Getty Images LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA - JANUARY 07: A dose of the Moderna COVID-19 vaccine is administered to a staff member at the Ararat Nursing Facility in the Mission Hills neighborhood of Los Angeles on January 7, 2021 in Los Angeles, California. Residents and staff at long term care facilities are on the CDCs highest prior...

In her first night as a volunteer greeter Tuesday at the St. Joseph County Health Department’s coronavirus vaccine clinic at St. Hedwig’s Parish, Amanda Govaert Konrath loved seeing seniors’ joy at receiving the vaccine, including the elderly man who suggested turning on the reception hall’s disco ball and exclaimed, “Let’s have a party!” But by the end of the shift, Govaert Konrath had her own reason to celebrate. She and the other four volunteers received do...

Some states could vaccinate their seniors twice as fast as others, CNN analysis finds From CNNs Deidre McPhillips Some states could fully vaccinate their 65-and-older population within two months, but it could take more than twice as long for others, a CNN analysis found. If individuals age 65 and older were the only people being vaccinated, Alaska could fully vaccinate its seniors – with both shots of the two-dose regimen – within 43 days. In Iowa, Hawaii, Idaho and Florida, it could take ...

ABC57 News in South Bend, Ind. covers all of Michiana including St. Joseph, Elkhart, Kosciusko, LaPorte and Marshall counties in Indiana and Berrien, Cass, Van Buren and St. Joseph counties in Mich.