A pharmacist fills a syringe to prepare a dose of the Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine at a vaccination site at Torrance Memorial Medical Center in Torrance, Calif., on Dec. 19, 2020. Patrick Fallon/AFP via Getty Images
Some fire department paramedics in Orange County, California, are being trained to administer COVID-19 vaccinations, in a move officials hope will help alleviate the workload of hospital nurses and doctors.
“Because hospital staffing is overworked, they don’t have the [manpower] to inoculate people,” Supervisor Doug Chaffee told The Epoch Times.
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