Tufts Medical Center begins administering 2nd dose of COVID-19 vaccine to staff Share Updated: 12:52 PM EST Jan 6, 2021 Lucyus Fevrier/Tufts Medical Center Dr. Helen Boucher gets her first dose of COVID-19 vaccine on Dec. 15, 2020 at Tufts Medical Center. SOURCE: Lucyus Fevrier/Tufts Medical Center
TRACKING THE COVID-19 VACCINE Share Updated: 12:52 PM EST Jan 6, 2021 Local health care workers who were among the first to receive COVID-19 vaccinations are now getting their second dose. A spokesperson for Tufts Medical Center confirmed Wednesday that the hospital had begun injecting staff with their second round of the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine, which requires a second dose be administered three weeks after the first. Tufts began to administer the vaccine on Dec. 15, within hours of receiving their first shipment. Gov. Charlie Baker said earlier this week that more than 287,000 doses of the two authorized vaccin
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