Now try doing it when you cannot receive even the meager financial assistance that is coming out of Washington, D.C. That is the reality for scores of immigrant families in Berkshire County. The Berkshire Immigrant Center is working to support those families now more than ever, but the non-profit can only do so much. I receive tons of emails back from clients in all caps saying, God bless you, and Thank you, and then a week later they re asking if we have any more aid available, BIC assistant case worker Emma Lezberg said this week. We re not meeting the need that s there.
Adrian Elliot wants Black and Latino county residents, and all people of color in the Berkshires, to know that he thinks the COVID-19 vaccines are âamazing.â
Speaking at a panel dedicated to assuaging vaccine concerns among people of color, Elliot, chief of emergency medicine at Fairview Hospital in Great Barrington, stressed that the vaccines were proved safe and effective in clinical trials that included thousands of Black and Latino people.
And while he thinks âamazingâ is a word that should be reserved for rare occasions, like landing a rover on Mars, he happily applied it to the vaccines.
âDo [the vaccines] work?â Elliot asked. âShort answer, they work. Slightly longer answer, they work really well.â
PITTSFIELD, Mass. — Former Gov. Deval Patrick will lead a virtual panel of local health professionals on Tuesday to address the low numbers of COVID-19 vaccinations in the state's.
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