January 2021

We hope this update finds everyone doing well in the new year. We are hopeful for positive changes in 2021, namely the deployment of the COVID-19 vaccine. Our residents, faculty and alums have been featured in the news regarding the vaccine and we are proud to have them communicating public health on a broad scale.

• Devlin Cole (PG2) was featured on a WISN story, commenting about the idea of delaying the second doses. Check out the full story here

• Dr. Jon Temte, PMR faculty and the State Vaccine Subcommittee Co-chair regularly is featured in the news. Below is a non-exhaustive list.

• • Priority Categories For Coronavirus Vaccine Not Cut And Dried – WPR, January 5^th

  • Prisoners could get vaccine before some seniors, frontline workers – Fox 6 News, January 7th

  • Public gets to weigh in on Phase 1b of vaccine distribution plan – Fox 6 News, January 13^th

• Dr. Bobby Redwood (PMR ’16), chief of emergency medicine at Cooley Dickinson Hospital, was the first front-line health care worker in Hampshire County in Massachusetts to receive a COVID-19 vaccination on December 17^th. See him featured in a local article here