‘You couldn’t pay me to take it’: As COVID vaccine rolls out for Massachusetts first responders, some police, fire departments split on taking it
Updated Jan 02, 2021;
With Massachusetts first responders standing next in line to receive the coronavirus vaccine, the Auburn Police Department, like many law enforcement agencies across the state, surveyed its officers earlier this month to see how many plan to get vaccinated for the viral respiratory infection.
The results were compelling. Fewer than half the members of the department, 29 officers, said they plan to get vaccinated, while 31 answered they do not, with the town’s chief of police among those opting out of getting immunized.
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The Massachusetts nursing home for US military veterans where at least 76 people died of coronavirus this spring administered its first Covid-19 vaccines Tuesday.
The Massachusetts nursing home for U.S. military veterans where at least 76 people died of coronavirus this spring administered its first COVID-19 vaccines Tuesday.
FALL RIVER Moderna has come to SSTAR.
The first batch of COVID-19 vaccine doses manufactured by the Cambridge-based bio-tech company Moderna was delivered Tuesday to Fall River’s non-profit Stanley Street Treatment and Resources.
“We got 100 yesterday and surprise, surprise, another 100 today,” SSTAR chief executive Nancy Paull said on Wednesday.
Paull said 20 of her employees got a shot in the arm on Tuesday and another 20 were set to receive the same by the end of Wednesday.
She said beginning next Monday 40 employees each weekday will take the first of two Moderna vaccine shots inside the central building of SSTAR’s main campus at 400 Stanley St.