{"id":2034,"date":"2021-04-10T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2021-04-10T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.mtsu.edu\/blogtest\/april-10-2021-donaet-miss-your-shot\/"},"modified":"2026-04-15T15:15:39","modified_gmt":"2026-04-15T20:15:39","slug":"april-10-2021-donaet-miss-your-shot","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mtsu.edu\/president\/april-10-2021-donaet-miss-your-shot\/","title":{"rendered":"APRIL 10, 2021: Don’t miss your shot!"},"content":{"rendered":"
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To the University community,<\/span><\/p>\n

I am pleased to share some exciting news with you.\u00a0Starting next week, you\u2019ll be hearing this a lot:\u00a0<\/span>Don\u2019t miss your shot<\/span><\/strong>\u00a0to receive the COVID-19 vaccine!<\/p>\n

You may have already seen the first of our signage, social media posts and other efforts to spread the word about the expanded vaccine clinic that\u00a0will\u00a0operate in the Student Union Atrium from\u00a0Monday, April 12 through Friday, April 16<\/strong>.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Appointment times will be from\u00a09 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. Monday, Wednesday, Thursday and Friday, with extended hours (9 a.m. to 5:30 p.m.) on Tuesday.<\/strong>\u00a0You need to first schedule an appointment, which can be done\u00a0here<\/a>. It is critical that you make an appointment, since there will be a priority placed on the doses we have, so none of them are wasted. MTSU Student Health Services is gearing up to deliver 60 student vaccines per hour \u2013 and they are ready to ramp up availability with demand.<\/span><\/p>\n

If you can\u2019t come to the Student Union Atrium next week, we\u2019ll resume vaccine opportunities, starting Monday, April 19, from the\u00a0Rec Center Atrium.<\/span><\/p>\n

We\u00a0highly encourage students<\/strong>\u00a0to get the vaccine to protect themselves and their family and friends. Also this: The CDC says anyone who is fully vaccinated \u2014 and comes in contact with someone with the coronavirus \u2014 will no longer have to quarantine.\u00a0This means the more of us who receive the vaccine, the more likely we are able to hold and expand in-person activities this fall.<\/span><\/p>\n

Meanwhile, again, it is imperative that we finish strong this semester by remaining cautious and careful in our individual actions in fighting the pandemic. Our mandates for wearing face masks inside campus buildings, maintaining social distancing,\u00a0and observing COVID-19\u00a0protocols\u00a0and event capacity remain in full force for this semester.<\/span><\/p>\n

As you know, we announced our intentions to return to a more normal fall term. We will carefully watch the\u00a0evolving\u00a0CDC guidelines, as well as directives from other federal and state health officials. We will issue additional guidance later in the summer about\u00a0masks and any other\u00a0COVID\u00a0restrictions that will be in place.<\/p>\n

I appreciate all you are doing to stay safe and help us stay on course.<\/p>\n

Sincerely,
\nSidney A. McPhee
\nPresident
\nSidney.McPhee@mtsu.edu<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

To the University community, I am pleased to share some exciting news with you.\u00a0Starting next week, you\u2019ll be hearing this a lot:\u00a0Don\u2019t miss your shot\u00a0to receive the COVID-19 vaccine! You may have already seen the first of our signage, social media posts and other efforts to spread the word about the expanded vaccine clinic that\u00a0will\u00a0operate […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":453,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2034","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mtsu.edu\/president\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2034","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mtsu.edu\/president\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mtsu.edu\/president\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mtsu.edu\/president\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mtsu.edu\/president\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2034"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.mtsu.edu\/president\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2034\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3050,"href":"https:\/\/www.mtsu.edu\/president\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2034\/revisions\/3050"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mtsu.edu\/president\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/453"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mtsu.edu\/president\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2034"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mtsu.edu\/president\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2034"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mtsu.edu\/president\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2034"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}