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Boston Healthcare Workers Celebrate Arrival Of COVID Vaccine SHARE KateWalshCEO/Twitter These Boston healthcare workers are all of us as they dance to Lizzo’s “Good as Hell” in this now-viral video These last nine or ten months have been just one, long, dark tunnel of doom in relation to the pandemic — until now. The arrival of the COVID-19 vaccine is giving us the teeniest sliver of light and confirmation that help is on the way, and that alone is absolutely worth celebrating. Ther...

Significant step in COVID-19 marathon: Vaccine arrives at more Mass. hospitals © Sarah Evans/Mass General Brigham Technical research assistants unbox the first shipment of COVID-19 vaccine to arrive at Mass General Brigham on Dec. 15, 2020. More Massachusetts hospitals are receiving shipments of Pfizers COVID-19 vaccine Tuesday as health care workers across the state prepare to get the first doses. On Monday, four hospitals received a combined 5,850 doses of Pfizer’s COVID-19 vaccine. On T...

Significant step in COVID-19 marathon: Vaccine arrives at more Mass. hospitals © Sarah Evans/Mass General Brigham Technical research assistants unbox the first shipment of COVID-19 vaccine to arrive at Mass General Brigham on Dec. 15, 2020. More Massachusetts hospitals are receiving shipments of Pfizers COVID-19 vaccine Tuesday as health care workers across the state prepare to get the first doses. On Monday, four hospitals received a combined 5,850 doses of Pfizer’s COVID-19 vaccine. On T...

WCVB WORCESTER — More Massachusetts hospitals received shipments of Pfizers COVID-19 vaccine Tuesday as health care workers across the state prepare to get the first doses. South Shore Hospital received its first shipment early Tuesday, and the first vaccinations are set to happen this week. "I think the word unprecedented has been used a lot," said Kristopher Young, chief pharmacy officer for South Shore Health. "It’s one small step, but a very significant step for us in this marathon ...

5 Questions Answered As Massachusetts Receives First Shipment Of COVID-19 Vaccine Victor Mendoza, left, a certified pharmacy technician, signs off on a package containing the first shipment of the Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine delivered to Boston Medical Center on Dec. 14. Jessica Rinaldi / The Boston Globe via AP, Pool Massachusetts received its first vaccine to protect against COVID-19 when the shipment was delivered Monday morning at Boston Medical Center. David Twitchell, the hospitals c...

With vaccine to arrive, Mass. goes from ‘defense to offense’ against COVID-19 By John Hilliard Globe Staff,Updated December 13, 2020, 8:59 p.m. Email to a Friend Boxes containing the Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine were prepared to be shipped at the Pfizer Global Supply Kalamazoo manufacturing plant in Portage, Mich., on Sunday.Morry Gash/Associated Press The earliest shipments of COVID-19 vaccine are expected to arrive at some Massachusetts hospitals starting Monday, officials said,...

Thousands of Massachusetts hospital staff expected to begin getting long-awaited COVID-19 vaccinations next week Staff and residents at senior care facilities may be only days behind By Deanna Pan and Robert Weisman Globe Staff,Updated December 11, 2020, 7:03 p.m. Email to a Friend A vial of Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19.Pool/Getty The Food and Drug Administration Friday night approved the first COVID-19 vaccine in the United States for emergency use, clearing the way for the first Massachusetts res...