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Night Before Vaccine Was Offered at EMS, Dispatcher, 58, Dies

By BOB HENNELLY
Posted 12/24/20

On the same day that Emergency Medical Service workers began receiving the coronavirus vaccine Dec. 23, Mayor de Blasio announced that one of those employees had died the night before from the virus—the first one to succumb in eight months.

The death of Evelyn Ford, a 27-year veteran EMS Dispatcher who was 58, came as the Fire Department confirmed a significant uptick in the rate of infection, with 600 employees sidelined by the virus. A department source said that five percent of firefighters and 2.7 percent of EMS workers were home recovering from COVID. Ms. Ford was the fifth EMS employee to die from the disease; there have been no firefighter fatalities.

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