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LCHC head: We must convince skeptical persons of color to accept the COVID vaccine

By | February 15, 2021
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Dr. Kiame Mahaniah is the CEO of Lynn Community Health Center. (Spenser Hasak)
LYNN — Dr. Kiame Mahaniah scanned the crowd of people already congregating in the Lynn Tech Field House last Friday morning to get their COVID-19 vaccine shots.  “There’s more diversity today,” said the CEO of the Lynn Community Health Center, which, in partnership with the city of Lynn and other agencies, is dispensing the shots…
Steve Krause
Steve Krause Steve Krause is the Item’s writer-at-large. He joined paper in 1979 as a copy editor and later created a music column, called Midnight Ramblings, which ran through 1985. After leaving the paper for a year, he returned in 1988 as a reporter and editor in sports. He became sports editor in 1998; and was named writer-at-large in 2018.

Krause won awards for writing in 1985 from United Press International; in 2001 from the Associated Press; and again in 2020 from the New England Newspaper & Press Association. He is a member of the Harry Agganis Foundation Hall of Fame, a past winner of the Moynihan Lumber Scholar-Athlete Community Service Award, and was the 2012 recipient of the Jack Grinold Media Award for MasterSports, an organization that conducts high school and college coaches’ clinics. He lives in Lynn, is active on Facebook, and can be found on Twitter @itemkrause.

Steve Krause can be reached at skrause@itemlive.com

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