He didn’t need to pull any strings to get the vaccine.
Yo-Yo Ma received his second shot of a COVID vaccine Saturday, then spent the 15-minute post-shot observation period playing the cello for others waiting.
The world-renowned cellist, 65, got the injection at Berkshire, Mass., Community College, about 25 miles southeast of Albany. The school shared clips of his performance on Facebook.
“[He] wanted to give something back,” clinic worker Richard Hall told the Berkshire Eagle.
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“What a way to end the clinic.”
Ma lives part-time in Berkshire and also played a series of pop-up concerts in September for frontline workers alongside Emanuel Ax.
More than 880,000 people in Massachusetts have been fully vaccinated against COVID-19, nearly 13% of the state’s 6.8 million people.