How to Access Berkshire COVID-19 Vaccination Clinics
The Berkshire Vaccine Collaborative has announced the launch of a new website containing comprehensive information on how to access the Berkshire area COVID-19 vaccination clinics. As reported in a press release, the new site, which you can access by going here, was developed to provide a consolidated resource with information about the COVID-19 vaccines, to provide resources on the state’s Vaccination Phases and vaccine availability, and to aid the public in making appointments at the three large mass vaccination clinic sites in the Berkshires.
The Berkshire Vaccine Collaborative has established vaccination sites in Pittsfield at the Berkshire Community College Field House, in Great Barrington at the WEB Du Bois Middle School and in North Adams at St. Elizabeth of Hungary’s Parish Center. Vaccine clinics are now scheduled for early February to begin vaccinations for the first part of Phase 2, which includes anyone aged 75 an
An official helping to oversee COVID-19 vaccinations says centers in Berkshire County will try to preserve appointments for Tuesday’s start of the next phase but this winter storm could change that.
The Berkshire Eagle reports that Lara Kittross, director of the Berkshire County Boards of Health Association, said no action had been taken as of last night, Sunday evening to cancel appointments.
Kittross said that if the storm affects the ability of clinics to begin the vaccinations as scheduled on Tuesday, people with appointments will be alerted through email messages. “If Tuesday needs to be canceled, the hotline and website will be updated and we will send an email to the email address on file for each registrant.
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Dr. Stephen Alsdorf, an internal medicine family practitioner joins us today. WAMC s Ray Graf hosts.
Dr. Stephen Alsdorf is a family medicine physician at Community Health Programs in Great Barrington, Mass., where he cares primarily for adult patients. He has a special interest in sports medicine, musculo-skeletal and metabolic health, and cardiovascular issues. He is a graduate of the UMass Medical School and completed his internship and residency at Boston University.
Dr. Alsdorf is focused on how a patient’s lifestyle impacts their health, and almost always prescribes exercise and the great outdoors as treatments for better health and wellness.
Do I Qualify for Phase II of the COVID-19 Vaccination Program?
WSBS recently received an email from Sabrina Ruggiero of Community Health Programs regarding phase two of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts COVID-19 Vaccination program which begins on Feb. 1, 2021.
According to Ruggiero, if you qualify or would like to understand if you qualify to receive a vaccination during this phase, you can go to the Mass.gov website to the COVID-19 page to ascertain this and to find available locations to then signup for an appointment now for a February appointment.
There are several locations in Berkshire County that you can make an appointment to get the vaccine if you qualify:
The new site, www.getvaccinatedberkshires.
org, was developed to provide a consolidated resource with information about the COVID-19 vaccines, to provide resources on the state s Vaccination Phases and vaccine availability, and to aid the public in making appointments at the three large mass vaccination clinic sites in the Berkshires. The Berkshire Vaccine Collaborative has established vaccination sites in Pittsfield at the Berkshire Community College Field House, in Great Barrington at the WEB Du Bois Middle School and in North Adams at St. Elizabeth of Hungary s Parish Center. Vaccine clinics are now scheduled for early February to begin vaccinations for the first part of Phase 2, which includes anyone aged 75 and older.