GCC students gain real-world experience at COVID-19 vaccine clinic
Greenfield Community College nursing student Kay Lopez vaccinates Brighton resident Tyler Laszewski. Staff Photo/Paul Franz
Greenfield Community College nursing student Alyssa Rodriguez gives Gill resident Diane Boutin her second COVID-19 vaccination at the John Zon Community Center in Greenfield. Staff Photo/Paul Franz
Greenfield Community College nursing professor emeritus Cheri Ducharme supervises her two nursing students Kay Lopez and Alyssa Rodriguez as they prepare to vaccinate Tyler Laszewski, rear, of Brighton. Staff Photo/Paul Franz
Staff Report
Published: 4/23/2021 3:30:20 PM
GREENFIELD Nursing students at Greenfield Community College have been getting hands-on experience and providing an essential service to the community by volunteering at the COVID-19 vaccine clinic at Greenfield’s John Zon Community Center.
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Vaccines relief for some, frustration for others
Big Y Pharmacy Manager Lee Kimball administers a COVID-19 vaccination to Phil Crafts of Leverett at the Big Y Pharmacy site in the old mattress store next to the supermarket in Greenfield. STAFF FILE PHOTO/PAUL FRANZ
Published: 2/19/2021 4:13:45 PM
Dozens of seniors throughout the county expressed frustration and anger this week as COVID-19 vaccination slots opened up to people 65 years old and older, and as many of them tried to register, they found the state website where people sign up for all vaccine locations had crashed.
The Greenfield Recorder reporter received more than a dozen calls Thursday from some of those seniors who said they’d been trying to register for the vaccine for days, even before the 65-plus announcement on Wednesday, and could not get an appointment.
Regional effort in works for COVID-19 vaccine distribution
Jenny Potee, public health nurse for New Salem, gives Lori Lunn of New Salem a COVID-19 vaccine in the parking lot of Ralph C. Mahar Regional School in Orange last Wednesday. STAFF PHOTO/PAUL FRANZ
Published: 2/7/2021 2:56:49 PM
While COVID-19 vaccine distribution got off to a rocky start earlier last week, it seemed to get a little better by week’s end, at least to the extent that some county seniors were receiving COVID-19 vaccines and more were planned for this week.
The city of Greenfield is preparing for its Phase 2 kickoff this week. Greenfield Interim Health Director Jennifer Hoffman said the city has 700 doses of the vaccine and will start to give first responders and “essential” personnel their second dose beginning Feb. 10, at the same time it will begin vaccinating seniors ages 75 and older.