Have a question about COVID-19 vaccines and Worcester? Our panelists can help
A lineup of health and city officials will be answering questions about COVID-19 vaccine distribution in Worcester.
Information on vaccines will be shared during a panel session from 1 to 2 p.m. Thursday. The event will be shown via Facebook Live.
The panelists will take questions from the public. Have a question? Submit it here: submissions@telegram.com.
Dave Nordman, executive editor of the Telegram & Gazette, will host the session, to be streamed from the Mercantile Center in downtown Worcester.
Panelists include:
• Karyn Clark, city public health director
• Dr. Robert Finberg, infectious diseases specialist, UMass Memorial Health Care
Coronavirus cases have taken an encouraging downward dip in the past week, including in Worcester County and the city of Worcester, but that relatively promising sign was tempered by a more contagious variant found this week in a person who was tested at UMass Memorial Medical Center in Worcester.
The new strain, which originated in England, was first reported in Massachusetts in a Boston woman on Sunday. The person who tested positive at UMass Memorial was identified by city officials Thursday only as a Worcester County resident who had recently traveled overseas.
The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has identified the new strain as one of three worldwide believed to spread more easily yet aren t known to be more deadly. Vaccinations that began in December are believed to be effective against the new strains.