… Health & Wellness Josh Merson couldn’t get the coronavirus vaccine fast enough. For Merson, an assistant professor of physician assistant studies, it culminated nine … as being a federal disaster medical responder during the pandemic’s early days last spring. “Although I have remained healthy, I've seen firsthand the morbidity and … continue to protect myself as well as I can so that I may continue to care for others and to show my family, friends, and the community that this vaccine is …