For many of us in the U.S., receiving the COVID-19 vaccine is as simple as walking into a local pharmacy. However, getting vaccinated isn’t so easy for those who live and work on the sea. After all, how can seafarers access vaccines if they cannot leave their ship or port? That’s an issue the Mission to Seafarers (MtS) set out to solve.
In early spring 2021, as the COVID-19 vaccine became available in the U.S., MTS, an organization dedicated to supporting and sustaining mariners, soon...