Also from DG Deb Linden Rotary and COVID:
I have received some questions about Rotary’s role in the COVID education and vaccination program. Here is an official statement from RI staff regarding RI’s involvement in the COVID response:
Rotary and its partners in the Global Polio Eradication Initiative (GPEI) have built a global health infrastructure that has brought polio to the brink of eradication and is now also being used to help protect communities from COVID-19.
Given promising new developments on effective COVID-19 vaccine candidates, many Rotary members are wondering whether Rotary and its partners can play a role in the eventual distribution of a COVID-19 vaccine, utilizing the polio eradication infrastructure--including the polio vaccine cold chain. While there are conversations ongoing within Rotary and between the GPEI and other organizations involved in the pandemic response, a strategy to use the polio eradication infrastructure to distribute a future COVID-19 vaccine has not yet been decided. We will keep members updated with any developments as possibilities are explored.
When we hear more from RI, I will notify all members in the District.
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alinger welcomed one and all by calling a toast for a successful Breakfast Rotary 2021, and a return to in-person meetings to enable us to prosper in the fine work our club produces. Well President Dave, I hope you are right. We stand and raise our glasses to this toast. Dr. Joe Nunez led the membership in our Invocation. Dr. Joe asked for blessings to those we serve and to all of us in a year of challenges. He reminded us of our Rotary motto, “Service Above Self”. Our honest to goodness flag came to us virtually thorough Heath Niemeyer. Heath led us this morning in America’s Pledge of Allegiance.
