OSHKOSH, WI (WTAQ-WLUK) — UW-Oshkosh students are ready to get the COVID-19 vaccine.
The university has been the site of COVID-19 wastewater testing, a surge testing site, and now a vaccination site.
“The vaccination stage is sort of the reward stage, you know, it’s been really exciting,” said UW-Oshkosh director of risk and sponsor programs Kimberly Langolf. “We’ve gotten to see the joy in people’s faces, and we really have gone beyond our university borders.”
She says students have taken to the measures and are largely eager to get the vaccine in hopes of returning to some sense of normalcy.
“The reason that we have been so successful at keeping COVID at bay is because of them,” Langolf said. “I think what I would say to them is that to continue the work that they’ve done, and to get a vaccine would really reward them, bring them back to some sort of normalcy.”
“To get back to the way things were,” said UWO student Mitchell Hunter, when asked why he thought getting vaccinated was so important. “As you can see, my mask keeps falling down, and it’s just annoying to pick back up. It’d be better if it just wasn’t on my face.”
UWO student Olivia Mahoney agrees.
“We’re all really sick of being quarantined all the time and just going through all the limitations of COVID,” she said. “The sooner that we can get vaccinated, the better, because we want to put this all behind us, so we can move on with our classes and have a normal college experience.”
