Baystate Health administers first COVID-19 vaccine; other Western Mass hospitals set to immunize staff
Updated Dec 16, 2020;
SPRINGFIELD Ten months into the COVID-19 pandemic that has swept the globe, a new front against it has begun in Western Massachusetts.
Baystate Health began to administer its allotment of 1,950 doses of Pfizer’s coronavirus vaccine early Wednesday morning to staff at greatest risk for exposure to SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes the respiratory disease known as COVID-19.
The number of confirmed COVID-19 cases in Massachusetts now stands at 286,866 and it is blamed for 11,190 deaths in the Bay State. (Nationally, there have been 16.6 million confirmed cases resulting in more than 302,000 fatalities.)
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