Need to get vaccinated at home? No problem.
The stateâs home vaccination program, which had strict eligibility requirements, has been expanded to all state residents unable to get to a vaccine site.
The program employs primarily Johnson & Johnson one-dose vaccines to reach people who are homebound or otherwise would need significant support to reach a clinic or pharmacy.
People ages 12 to 17 are also eligible for the program and would receive two doses of the Pfizer vaccine, the only vaccine that has been approved for that age group.
Previously, the program had been restricted to people who met specific federal criteria. The expanded eligibility comes as the state looks for more vaccine recipients, with increased supply and dwindling demand.
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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