BOSTON (WHDH) - Northeastern University is one of the first universities in the nation to administer COVID-19 vaccines.
The university received 200 doses of the Moderna vaccine on Tuesday and administered the first dose to nearly 100 phase one people including clinical and non-clinical healthcare workers doing direct COVID-facing care, police and first responders, and healthcare workers doing non-COVID-facing care.
“The whole community came together to ensure that wellness and safety are not negotiable,” President Joseph E Aoun said in a statement. “The vaccine is another manifestation of how we’ve been a pioneering community in terms of safety.”
Iloisa “Lola” Teixeira who works as a medical assistant overseeing swabbing was the first to receive the vaccine.
She said she herself was personally impacted by the virus when a family member died earlier in the year.
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