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Nursing students tapped to help administer vaccines

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As details of the mass COVID-19 inoculation campaign are being finalized in Shelby County, one of the most vexing issues — the labor pool — appears to be falling in place. A call between Mayor Jim Strickland and Doug McGowen, the city’s chief operating officer, and the leaders of medical teaching institutions put into a play a potential labor force of thousands, including 2,500 students and faculty from University of Tennessee Health Science Center alone and another 300 to 500 nursing students from the University of Memphis.

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