CHARLEMONT Run by the Hawlemont Emergency Dispensing Site team and Franklin Regional Council of Governments (FRCOG), a COVID-19 vaccine clinic at the Charlemont Fairgrounds on Sunday offered the single-dose Johnson & Johnson vaccine and served as.
Renew Swim Area Season Passes: The Green River Swimming and Recreation Area opened on Saturday, June 5. Purchase or renew your season pass now.Hiring Lifeguards: The Recreation Department is looking for certified lifeguards, ages 16 and up, to work at.
CHARLEMONT Articles concerning transferring the tree warden’s responsibilities to the highway superintendent and amending bylaws with specific enforcement measures will be discussed among funding decisions at Annual Town Meeting on Saturday. The.
My Turn: Next pandemic will we treat the homebound better? AL NORMAN
Published: 6/9/2021 1:13:10 PM
Massachusetts began administering COVID-19 vaccines on Dec. 15, 2020. One hundred four days later, on March 29, Gov. Charles Baker announced the launch of a new “Homebound Vaccine Program.” By that point in time, the commonwealth had already administered 3,409,635 doses of vaccine to the public. The Homebound Program was clearly not as high a priority as reaching patients in nursing facilities, where COVID fatalities were a daily headline. As a result, homebound elderly and disabled people waited three and a half months to get their turn at a shot. Some of these people had as many as three or four home health aides, visiting nurses, or physical therapists, coming into their homes daily any of these workers were potential COVID spreaders. In-home COVID testing was also not widely available.
CHARLEMONT A town plan for mosquito control that centers on education has been proposed as an alternative to a state Department of Agricultural Resources program that several local towns have opted out of due to public health concerns.The state’s.