{"id":24,"date":"2021-10-12T19:18:23","date_gmt":"2021-10-12T19:18:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mainemaritime.edu\/mariner\/shipmate-october-2021\/?p=24"},"modified":"2021-10-13T15:03:04","modified_gmt":"2021-10-13T15:03:04","slug":"mma-alumni-team-assist-vaccinating-mariners","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mainemaritime.edu\/mariner\/shipmate-october-2021\/article-no-hero\/mma-alumni-team-assist-vaccinating-mariners\/","title":{"rendered":"MMA Alumni Team Assist Vaccinating Mariners"},"content":{"rendered":"

MMA Alumni Team Assist Vaccinating Mariners<\/h1>\n

Since the coronavirus pandemic began, many of the merchant mariners who move 90 percent of the world\u2019s goods from port to port have\u00a0essentially been stuck at sea<\/a>, unable to go ashore.<\/p>\n

With ports closed to sailors, many couldn\u2019t go home. Some spent 20 months at sea, according to the International Maritime Organization, an organization that described the issue as an unprecedented humanitarian crisis. The mariners\u2019 plight is often overlooked by people on the mainland. But it hasn\u2019t been overlooked by two Mainers, who began volunteering to give COVID-19 vaccinations to the crew members of cargo ships docked at Mack Point in Searsport. (BDN, 5\/30\/2021)<\/p>\n

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MMA Alumni Team Assist Vaccinating Mariners<\/p>\n

Since the coronavirus pandemic began, many of the merchant mariners who move 90 percent of the world\u2019s goods from port to port have\u00a0essentially been stuck at sea<\/a>, unable to go ashore.<\/p>\n

With ports closed to sailors, many couldn\u2019t go home. Some spent 20 months at sea, according to the International Maritime Organization, an organization that described the issue as an unprecedented humanitarian crisis. The mariners\u2019 plight is often overlooked by people on the mainland. But it hasn\u2019t been overlooked by two Mainers, who began volunteering to give COVID-19 vaccinations to the crew members of cargo ships docked at Mack Point in Searsport. (BDN, 5\/30\/2021)<\/p>\n

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