With classrooms, laboratories and dining halls full again, the region’s college campuses are counting on high vaccination rates and indoor masking policies to keep Covid-19 at bay and continue in-person instruction.
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Public Health Nurse Beverly Lawler gives a third dose of the Moderna vaccine to David Lee of Lockport as Rebecca Stear looks on after getting hers during a Covid-19 vaccination clinic held by the Niagara County Department of Health at Dwyer Arena on the Niagara University campus in Lewiston.
Derek Gee / Buffalo News
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Laura Holthouse, left, who works in the nursing office at Niagara University, gets her first dose of the Pfizer vaccine from former student, registered nurse Taylor Tubinis who works as a public health nurse for Niagara County after graduating from NU in 2019.
Derek Gee / Buffalo News
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