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On Wednesday, as part of National Nurses Week, Mayor Paul Coogan honored City Nurses Deb Kosior and Leslie Moniz for their work during the pandemic.

And if you don’t own a car then just walk up, register and get vaccinated. This latest method of getting free COVID-19 vaccinations in the city comes courtesy of the Fall River Emergency Medical Services’ newly acquired mobile trailer unit.   Wednesday marked the second day the 31-foot-long, towable trailer — which is now equipped with a small refrigerator for storing vaccine doses — was put into service by EMS workers and local health department nurses. The location was the front parking lot area of the Seabra Foods supermarket on Stafford Road. “We had grocery shopping to do to...

Michael Coughlin FALL RIVER — For the past ten months I’ve been writing about COVID-19 from a largely statewide perspective. Boards of Health in 351 cities and towns in Massachusetts have been and continue to battle the virus and are now working with the rest of the healthcare community to vaccinate the public.  This month and next I’ll focus on the COVID-19 experience here in Fall River.  At the end of January, COVID-19 had sickened over 11,000 Fall River residents, resulting in almost 300 deaths.  I recently spoke with Fall River Health and Humans Services Director Tess Curran for...