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Heading into the holidays, Berkshire Health Systems has ended the first round of its staff COVID-19 vaccination campaign.
“We were able to vaccine about 2,200 to 2,300 Berkshire Health Systems employees, and the supply of vaccine is now getting lower, of course, said spokesperson Michael Leary. And there may be a few stragglers that may need to be vaccinated over the next several days, but the formal vaccine clinics that we have been running for staff have run their course for now until we get to the second dose.”
The second dose of the Pfizer vaccine happens 21 days after the first. BHS has also received at least one shipment of around 100 doses of the Moderna vaccine.
An apparent discrepancy has emerged in the public reporting of coronavirus cases at two long-term care facilities in Lee. In a report dated Dec. 18, Next Step Healthcare â the facilitiesâ parent company â listed two cases at Lee Healthcare and one at The Landing at Laurel Lake.
The stateâs Dec. 18 daily report listed between one and four cases among Lee Healthcare residents but no cases among residents or staff for The Landing at Laurel Lake. Dec. 19 and Dec. 20 state reports said there were no cases among residents or staff at either facility. The stateâs website says the reports feature data from the previous day.
BY THE NUMBERS: Berkshire Countyâs death toll rose by one on Monday to 120. The confirmed COVID-19 case count climbed 37 to 2,482, the state Department of Public Health said.
The DPH said 41 new deaths were reported in Massachusetts, pushing the statewide total to 11,506. Deaths including those listed as probably caused by COVID-19 is 11,759. Confirmed cases rose 3,760 to 314,850. The stateâs surge in cases is made clear by this statistic: More than one-tenth of the total number of confirmed cases to date in Massachusetts were confirmed in just the last week.
According to data provided by Johns Hopkins University, 206,843 people in Massachusetts with COVID-19 have recovered.