Amanda Davis, the nurse leader for the North Adams School District, and Lisa Randall, the district’s COVID-19 coordinator, organize weekly pool testing, contract tracing, and processing results, among other things, to keep students safe and in school as much as possible in the face of COVID-19 from a book storage room-turned-office at Drury High School.
Davis, left, and Lisa Randall, the district’s COVID-19 coordinator, input data into their computers Friday. Davis, who also is a clinical instructor at Berkshire Community College, started working in the district this school year, after doing some substitute nursing.
Amanda Davis, the nurse leader for North Adams Public Schools, leads her team of nurses and testing staff from a book storage room-turned-office at Drury High School to coordinate weekly pool testing, contract tracing and more.
The makeshift office that Davis and her team work out of contains cabinets full of rapid tests, and there are stashes of tissues and hand sanitizer. Lining two of the walls are shelves filled with stacks of stored books, high school English classics like "Moby-Dick," "The Grapes of Wrath" and "The Odyssey."
Boxes of rapid tests that will be used throughout the North Adams Public School District for weekly COVID-19 pool testing are stored at Drury High School.
Stephanie Zollshan
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Stephanie Zollshan has been a photojournalist for The Berkshire Eagle since 2011. She is a Boston University graduate whose work has been featured in publications around the world. Stephanie can be reached at szollshan@berkshireeagle.com.
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