The collaborative has announced plans to scale down its three largest COVID-19 vaccine clinic sites in Great Barrington, North Adams and Pittsfield gradually over the next month and offer pop-up clinics and vaccination at testing sites. This is really the next phase vaccination, these large clinics were stood up so that we could quickly and efficiently vaccinate as many people as possible and they ve been incredibly successful, Executive Director of Communications, Planning and Development Jennifer Vrabel said. And we re finding that we ve now reached a critical mass where most of the people who are eligible and who wanted to get really actively engaged in the process, have come out and gotten it at the large clinics, and at the height, we could vaccinate with all of our volunteers, around 1,000 people a day, and now, we ve got six-hour clinic blocks, and 100 people coming in. So we re shifting to this model have more availability more days and more consistent
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The Berkshire Vaccine Collaborative is a coalition of county healthcare leaders, including Berkshire Health Systems, the county Boards of Health Association, Community Health Programs, Northern Berkshire EMS, the city of Pittsfield and more. For months, the collaborative has worked to distribute COVID-19 vaccines throughout the westernmost county in Massachusetts. This week, the collaborative said it’s beginning to scale down its larger clinics with almost half the county vaccinated. Collaborative spokesperson Jennifer Vrabel, Executive Director of Communications for Berkshire Health Systems, spoke with WAMC Josh Landes.
VRABEL: The most recent data released by the state shows that about 60% of county residents have received at least one dose of the vaccine and 43% have been fully vaccinated. An enormous number of those folks have been vaccinated by our large clinics in Pittsfield, North Adams amd Great Barrington. And we ve been able to serve so many people by collaborating
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