YCEMA Covid Vaccine Clinic
date: label: date made
content: 2022
name: label: maker
content: Randall, Katrina
notes: label: Description
content: On March 11, 2020, the World Health Organization (WHO) declared that the COVID-19 outbreak had become a pandemic. In the wake of this declaration, the federal government and pharmaceutical industry invested heavily in research for a vaccine. On December 11, 2020, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration authorized the use of Pfizer/BioNTech vaccine for emergency use. Seven days later, on December 18, 2020, the NIH-Moderna vaccine was authorized by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) for emergency use. Both drugs required a double dose, with the second shot usually being scheduled between 3 to 6 weeks after the first dose.
label: Description
content: When the pandemic began, Katrina Randall was working as a surgical nurse in York County, Maine. A tent was set up at the hospital where she worked and she screened patients before they could be admitted to the ER. She was ultimately deployed to conduct nasal testing of hospital employees (doctors, nurses, cafeteria workers, housekeeping, etc). Constant outbreaks occurred until Fall of 2021.
label: Description
content: Once the outbreaks had been contained, she went to work for York County Emergency Management in a vaccine clinic which was set up in old Marshall’s department store that had been vacant for several years. On a typical day, the clinic provided 300+ vaccines, beginning at 10:30am until 6pm. Randall had been a home nurse and she went on home visits to people who needed vaccines but were unable to leave their homes. For each vaccine, she donned gloves and then performed the vaccination. She kept the following items on hand to assist with this process: the vaccine and syringes, paperwork, an EPIpen in the event a person had an allergic reaction, band aids, and alcohol wipes.
label: Description
content: Randall created a photo album which featured her co-workers at the vaccine clinic. She also collected material which instructed her in how she should treat patients and schedule her work. In 2022, she herself received lab results indicating that she had contracted COVID. She was prescribed Paxlovid, the standard treatment for COVID. She maintained these objects, seeing the pandemic as an extraordinary event.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States: Maine, York
topic: label: associated subject
content: 2019 novel coronavirus disease
label: associated subject
content: Infectious diseases
label: associated subject
content: Public Health
label: associated subject
content: 2019-nCoV disease
label: associated subject
content: Disease prevention
label: associated subject; web subject
content: Vaccination
label: associated community; depicted; maker's community; web subject
content: Nursing
label: associated subject; depicted; web subject
content: COVID-19 (Disease)
label: associated subject; depicted; web subject
content: COVID-19 Testing
label: maker's community
content: Surgery
label: related event
content: COVID-19 Pandemic, 2020-2023
setName: label: See more items in
content: Medicine and Science: Medicine
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content: Photography
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Katrina Randall
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 2024.0063.01
label: catalog number
content: 2024.0063.01
label: accession number
content: 2024.0063
objectType: label: Object Name
content: photo book
label: Object Name
content: photobook
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: paper (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 8 13/16 in x 11 1/4 in x 7/16 in; 22.38375 cm x 28.575 cm x 1.11125 cm