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Needham Public Health hosts vaccination clinic for residents of towns housing authority Wicked Local One-hundred Needham Housing Authority residents received their first COVID-19 vaccination Saturday during a clinic hosted by Needham Public Health. Around 455 Needham residents live in housing managed by the NHA, where rent is paid with varying levels of assistance from either the state or federal government. According to Needham Public Health Director Timothy McDonald, the clinic employed Russ...

BOURNE — The Capes legislative delegation sent a letter to local school superintendents telling them not to expect an educator-only vaccination site this side of the bridge any time soon, even as state officials Wednesday called for such local clinics to be held. “We have asked the Baker-Polito Administration about setting up educator-specific sites and, so far, we have received a hard NO,” the letter dated Tuesday read. The eight legislators urged teachers and other school employees not...

Unions push Baker to back plan for firefighters to vaccinate educators, school workers By John Hilliard Globe Staff,Updated March 7, 2021, 7:37 p.m. Email to a Friend Freshman students in class at Brockton High School.David L. Ryan/Globe Staff Unions representing teachers and firefighters expect to meet Wednesday with the state’s Health and Human Services secretary on their proposal to have firefighters administer vaccine doses to thousands of school workers — a program they say would...

BOSTON (AP) — Unions representing teachers and firefighters in Massachusetts have...

Now the school just needs the vaccine — nearly 2,000 doses. “That’s what we’re waiting for,” school Superintendent Roger Forget said Wednesday afternoon. The plan is to dispense 1,997 first shots in a single day — possibly March 19 — to pre-K through grade 12 staff in the Bourne, Sandwich, Falmouth, Mashpee and Upper Cape Tech school districts, he said. “It’s not just teachers. It’s everyone. It’s the bus drivers. It’s the custodians,” said Forget, who worked with stat...

Most of the appointments posted Thursday will be reserved for patients who need a second dose.

CareWell clinics telling patients their second COVID-19 shots are canceled, triggering wider vaccination anxieties But state officials say they’re guaranteeing second doses By Robert Weisman Globe Staff,Updated February 26, 2021, 12:13 p.m. Email to a Friend Carewell Urgent Care in Framingham.Barry Chin/Globe Staff/file A wave of vaccine jitters rippled through the state Friday after a Quincy-based urgent care company began canceling second shot appointments for residents who’d alrea...

In a slight shift from Gov. Bakers emphasis on mass vaccination sites, more than a dozen hospitals are due to receive vaccines for public clinics.

The much-maligned package of software programs the state is using for residents to schedule COVID-19 vaccine shots has cost more than $400,000.

Two major health care providers in Massachusetts said Wednesday they would begin offering limited COVID-19 vaccination shots to their patients after the state...