Massachusetts to receive 170,000 first doses of COVID vaccine this week: Here’s where they will be available
Updated Mar 17, 2021;
State officials announced Wednesday the number of COVID-19 vaccination doses allocated for Massachusetts this week.
Massachusetts will receive approximately 170,000 first doses this week, a figure which includes an unexpected 8,000 doses of Johnson & Johnson vaccines, according to Gov. Charlie Baker’s office.
In total, the state will receive 316,000 first and second doses, not including the doses provided directly to pharmacies and hospitals through the Federal Retail Pharmacy Program or to Federally Qualified Health Centers.
The distribution of the state’s 316,000 first and second doses will go to:
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LEESBURG Seventy percent of seniors ages 65 and older have been vaccinated against COVID-19, Lake County officials announced Monday at a press conference.
Officials also noted a downward trend in coronavirus cases around 9% of those tested are proving positive, one of the lowest rates in the state.
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“It has been one year that the county has been in a local state of emergency for COVID,” Thomas Carpenter, Director of the Office of Emergency Management for Lake County, said. “Looking back a year ago today, we didn’t know what to expect but once vaccines got here, we saw the light at the end of the tunnel. We’ve vaccinated 70 percent of our 65 and older and the reason we’ve been able to do that is a fantastic partnership between the Department of Health who have led the way, the county, our municipa
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A man stands amid chairs in a post-vaccination waiting area at Lumen Field Event Center s COVID-19 vaccination site on March 13, 2021. (Matt M. McKnight/Crosscut)
In early March 2020, Julee Richards remembers sitting in stunned silence with her co-workers in the breakroom. COVID-19 had just been declared a global pandemic, and panicked shoppers were starting to swarm the Fred Meyer near Tacoma where Richards works as a cashier.
Over the next few weeks, a number of employees quit out of concern for their safety, leaving Richards and those who remained to manage the crowds on their own. “We barely survived through May,” she said.