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“I absolutely couldn’t sleep,” she said. Hafkin spent three hours that night trying to book another appointment through the state’s website. As of Thursday morning, she had struck out. By Wednesday afternoon, state lawmakers were demanding that Gov. Charlie Baker fix the complicated appointment system. Emergency legislation reportedly filed Thursday by state Sen. Eric Lesser, D-Longmeadow, calls for a hotline in multiple languages and a one-stop, online sign-up for vaccinations accessi...

NORTHAMPTON — The local vaccination site could administer many more COVID-19 shots than it is getting from the state, the city’s health director said Thursday at a virtual panel hosted by state Sen. Jo Comerford. “We were expecting, if the vaccine was...

Sen. Eric Lesser, a Longmeadow Democrat, filed a bill Thursday ordering the Department of Public Health to create a one-stop online portal that is more accessible as soon as possible.

NORTHAMPTON – Calling the state’s system for booking vaccination appointments “inexcusable,” Sen. Eric Lesser on Thursday filed emergency legislation that directs the state Department of Public Health to immediately establish an accessible, one-stop...

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Updated on January 29, 2021 at 6:44 pm NBC Universal, Inc. With Phase 2 of the Massachusetts vaccination process just three days away, frustrations with the states registration system continue to grow. All Massachusetts residents age 75 and older are now eligible to make an appointment to get the vaccine under Phase 2 of the rollout, which begins Monday, but there were numerous accounts of older residents who could not navigate the states website or waited hours only to find that all slots wer...

But if the governor doesn't act, lawmakers say, they will.

Day 1 of COVID-19 vaccinations underway at Eastfield Mall in Springfield Updated Jan 29, 2021; Facebook Share SPRINGFIELD — Hundreds of people arrived at the Eastfield Mall on Friday for COVID-19 vaccinations on the first day the Boston Road mall began offering them as the sole mass vaccination site in Western Massachusetts. Those who registered for appointments in advance began filling into the mall the first thing Friday morning. The vaccinations are taking place inside the mall near the f...

Mass. will offer more help for people struggling to get vaccination appointments Lawmakers urge Baker to scrap the dispersed system of finding vaccinations for a centralized registration site By Andy Rosen and Hiawatha Bray Globe Staff,Updated January 28, 2021, 7:48 p.m. Email to a Friend With demand for the shots running high, a doctor was kept busy at a one-day vaccination clinic in Seattle this week.Ted S. Warren/Associated Press Governor Charlie Baker said Thursday that Massachusetts will ...

Please support local journalism by subscribing. For more info, click here. Carleen Gavin had taken every step to sign up for a coronavirus vaccine appointment.  "I follow my governors plan," said Gavin, 81, saying she put her name on a list with her physician, and with the Cameron Senior Center, where she is an active, longtime member. Gavin spoke with her daughter -- who lives in Toronto -- and her daughter walked her through the steps online.  When requested for an image, on both sides, o...