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Dear Governor Baker:
I hope this letter finds you well. Having been unanimously authorized by the Wareham Board of Selectmen, I write on behalf of the people of the Town of Wareham to ask you to reconsider your Administration s recent decision to stop issuing COVID-19 vaccine through the Southcoast Health System and other operators of community hospitals statewide, and instead to issue vaccines only through state-run sites and, eventually, pharmacies. In response to your Administration s decision, we have been informed that Southcoast is no longer accepting new appointments, and is awaiting word back from the state that those who have existing appointments will still be provided the vaccine.
Nicholas Capote dispenses the first Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine doses at Tufts Medical Center from a vial into a syringe. (Jesse Costa/WBUR)
Health care workers administered the first COVID-19 vaccines in Massachusetts to their own on Tuesday. Doctors, nurses, cleaning staff and others stationed in COVID units, emergency rooms or other front-line positions received the injection after workers unpacked the frozen vaccine vials in a puff of cold mist.
The arrival of the vaccine, developed in record time by Pfizer and BioNTech, a German company with U.S. headquarters in Cambridge, has been met with jubilation from health experts. The beginning of these injections, they say, marks a big step toward ending the pandemic.
Dr. Dani Hackner, pulmonologist and chief clinical officer for Southcoast Health System, gets his first dose of the Pfizer-developed coronavirus vaccine on Tuesday. (Courtesy Southcoast Health System)
Frontline health care workers in Massachusetts on Tuesday became among the first in the state to get doses of the coronavirus vaccine made by Pfizer and BioNTech.
The vaccine was authorized last week by the Food and Drug Administration for emergency use; it s the first vaccine of its kind in the U.S.
A similar one, developed by Cambridge-based Moderna, goes before the FDA for emergency authorization next week.
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Dr. Dani Hackner is a pulmonologist and the chief clinical officer for Southcoast Health System, which operates hospitals in New Bedford, Fall River, and Wareham. Hackner and several of his colleagues received the coronavirus vaccine Tuesday; he spoke with WBUR s Jack Lepiarz about why he decided to get vaccinated as soon as he could.
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