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“We’re in the community … and so we were able to work with the people we already knew, really come together to get this done,” said Hemerick, who administers vaccines at Martinsburg High School. “Some days we have 600-plus doses that we’re putting in arms, so really one person couldn’t handle that.”
The pharmacists giving shots at Martinsburg High School travel in from three different counties in the eastern panhandle, teaming up to slow the spread.
The clinic focuses on school employees age 50 and older, since the pharmacists have already finished administering first and second shots at all the long-term care centers.