Healthcare workers across the United States are busy fighting COVID-19 in overcrowded hospitals. At the same time, there is a great need for medical workers to give millions of newly arrived vaccine doses. To take some of the pressure off the healthcare workers, some U.S. states are asking medical and nursing students, in some cases even firefighters, to help give the shots. So far, at least seven state health departments are looking for volunteers to help out at vaccination centers. Departments are cooperating with local universities or nursing schools. Some are offering incentives, such as lowering students' costs to study and giving hands-on training to first responders. COVID-19 has left more than 333,000 Americans dead and caused great economic harm. But the new vaccines are the best hope many have to see things turn around.
Title: Medical Students Take on a New Role
Content: <div id='article-page'><div id='article-content' data-media-url='//news-app-staging.s3.amazonaws.com' data-base-url='//news-app-staging.herokuapp.com' data-sound-name='https://news-app-production.s3.amazonaws.com/articles/4767/A.wav' data-capture-url='//staging.analytics.lingraphica.com/events/capture_news' data-article-title='Medical Students Take on a New Role' data-article-id='5292'><script src='//news-app-staging.herokuapp.com/javascripts/getscripts.js'></script><link rel='stylesheet' href='//news-app-staging.herokuapp.com/stylesheets/article.css' type='text/css' /><div class='article'><p><span data-start-time='0' data-end-time='10521'>Healthcare workers across the United States are busy fighting COVID-19 in overcrowded hospitals.</span> <span data-start-time='10521' data-end-time='21521'>At the same time, there is a great need for medical workers to give millions of newly arrived vaccine doses.</span> <span data-start-time='21521' data-end-time='37438'>To take some of the pressure off the healthcare workers, some U.S. states are asking medical and nursing students, in some cases even firefighters, to help give the shots.</span> <span data-start-time='37438' data-end-time='48979'>So far, at least seven state health departments are looking for volunteers to help out at vaccination centers.</span> <span data-start-time='48979' data-end-time='56500'>Departments are cooperating with local universities or nursing schools.</span> <span data-start-time='56500' data-end-time='70125'>Some are offering incentives, such as lowering students' costs to study and giving hands-on training to first responders.</span> <span data-start-time='70125' data-end-time='81438'>COVID-19 has left more than 333,000 Americans dead and caused great economic harm.</span> <span data-start-time='81438' data-end-time='88333'> But the new vaccines are the best hope many have to see things turn around.</span> </p></div><div class='control-buttons-sticky' style='display:none;'><div 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