I Volunteered To Administer COVID-19 Vaccines. Here's What I Saw During My Shift.
People enter a COVID-19 vaccination center on Jan. 28, 2021, in New York City. Note: All names and identifying details in this essay have been changed to protect the privacy of individuals. When batches of COVID-19 vaccines first arrived in New York City, health care centers were seeking volunteers to help vaccinate. As a medical student in Manhattan committed to doing anything I could to facilitate the pandemic response, I signed up right away. What is typically an indoor running track became a makeshift site for COVID-19 vaccines. At 2 p.m., when I arrived, there was a line of people sp...