COVID vaccine live updates: What you should know in South Florida on Tuesday, Feb. 16 Michelle Marchante, The Miami Herald
Feb. 16 COVID-19 vaccines are now available in South Florida, and the rules on who can get a shot, where and when can be confusing.
Here s what you need to know:
What s new today? Florida s emergency chief is stepping down. Jared Moskowitz, a former lawmaker from Broward County, has led the state s response to the COVID-19 pandemic. The 40-year-old director of the Florida Division of Emergency Management says he wants to spend more time with family. If you re looking for a COVID vaccine, beware of scams. Did the person who called offering to set up your vaccine appointment ask for money or Medicare information? Was the call unexpected because you didn t think you were in one of the groups now being vaccinated in Florida? Then put your Florida Fraud detector glasses on it might very well be a scam, Florida Attorney General Ashley Moody
Weather forces cancellation of morning COVID vaccine appointments at Worcester locations Tuesday; People will be rescheduled for Saturday
Updated Feb 15, 2021;
The icy conditions expected across Massachusetts Monday night into Tuesday afternoon has forced officials to cancel and reschedule some COVID vaccine appointments at the Worcester super vaccination site and Worcester Senior Center.
The vaccination clinic scheduled for 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. at Worcester State University on Chandler Street will be rescheduled to the same time but on Saturday, Feb. 20. Appointment times for people will remain the same and email notifications will be sent out to those who had scheduled appointments, city officials said.
Meaningful Work
In her 30 years at CGS, Dean Linda Wells has helped scores of students shape their careers and lives. By Andrew Thurston Being a cattle rancher might sound romantic, but picture the blood and sweat of everyday life before putting on your spurs. Students taking a seat on Dean Linda Wells’s striped sofa should be prepared for a lesson in the world of work that’s hewn straight from the rocky vistas of Colorado ranching country. OK, so no one in recent memory has gone from the College of General Studies to cowpoke, but Wells makes the same point to every student who comes to her seeking career advice: “I ask them, ‘What is the activity you’re going to be engaged in?’” says Wells. “It troubles me when I hear so many people spend their lives in work they don’t find fulfilling.” Wells spent her formative years on her grandparents’ cattle ranch in the western part of the Centennial State. Growing up surrounded by roaming herds, corrals, and “phenomena