The Berkshire Vaccine Collaborative and the Berkshire Eagle will host a virtual panel at 1 p.m. on Thursday, May 27, to answer vaccine and COVID-19 questions ahead of the state s
Berkshire Community College will hold the Class of 2021 Physical Therapist Assistant Pinning Ceremony at 6 p.m. Thursday, May 27, in the Connector, located between Hawthorne and Melville halls at the college.
The ceremony, which honors physical therapist assistant students who have successfully completed all requirements of the program, marks the entrance of these students into the professional field of physical therapy.
While the event is open only to BCC faculty, administration, and students involved in the ceremony, it will be recorded live by local Pittsfield Community Television and broadcast on Spectrum Cable channel 1302. Viewers can also tune in on the PCTV Select app, available by visiting pittsfieldtv.org, which will also air a video on demand after production.
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
The fight against the coronavirus is not yet finished, and unfortunately neither is the list of cultural casualties inflicted by the pandemic.
COVID precautions will force Pittsfield to forgo its Fourth of July Parade for one more summer. The Independence Day event that normally looms large among the cityâs summer festivities dates back to 1824. Before the COVID-19 pandemic struck, only two years â 1947 and 1977 â passed without a Fourth of July Parade in Pittsfield. This is the first time in the paradeâs 197-year history that it has been canceled two years in a row.
Itâs an outcome as sad as it is historic, underscoring the reality that the viral enemy against which weâve made great strides is not yet fully defeated.
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