Massachusetts Gov. Charlie Baker expects state to exceed 2 million fully vaccinated against COVID this week
Updated 1:29 PM;
Despite the drop in Johnson & Johnson shipments, Massachusetts Gov. Charlie Baker remains confident the state will surpass 2 million complete COVID-19 vaccinations this week.
More than 1.7 million people in Massachusetts have received both doses of the Moderna or Pfizer vaccine or the single-dose vaccine from Johnson & Johnson, the state Department of Public Health reported Sunday.
Baker foresees the state will have covered more than 2 million people this week, roughly one-third of the eligible population.
“I fully expect that at some point later this week,” Baker said, pausing to look at Health and Human Services Secretary Marylou Sudders. He asks what she thinks and then says, “We’ll pass 2 million people in Massachusetts fully vaccinated.”
One year after COVID outbreak at Holyoke Soldiers’ Home, questions over accountability linger
Updated 5:00 AM;
State Rep. Michael Finn recalls the last legislative breakfast he attended at the Holyoke Soldiers’ Home before the pandemic.
It was January 2020, just weeks before an outbreak transformed the state-run facility for aging veterans into a frightening show of the power of COVID-19. The event featured the usual menu of coffee, scrambled eggs, retail politicking and speeches.
While the gathering hinted at nothing of what was to come, Finn, a six-term Democrat from West Springfield, noticed an odd dynamic: Bennett Walsh, superintendent of the Soldiers’ Home, and Francisco Ureña, the state’s secretary of veterans’ services, were pointedly ignoring each other.
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With just a single one-and-done shot, another 100,000 people in Massachusetts are slated to get fully vaccinated against COVID-19 next week.
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The state is expecting 100,000 doses of the Johnson & Johnson vaccine for this coming week as part of what Gov. Charlie Baker described as the “first really significant shipments” of the one-dose vaccine. And despite a national manufacturing slip up, state officials expect the shipment to arrive as scheduled.
Like the two-shot Pfizer and Moderna vaccines, the Johnson & Johnson vaccine has shown to be 100 percent effective at preventing hospitalization or death due to COVID-19. However, the Baker administration has touted the convenience and efficiency of not needing to return for a second appointment three or four weeks later meaning that individuals who get the J&J vaccine will be fully immune to COVID-19 two weeks after their first shot, rather than five or six.