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BOSTON (AP) – Massachusetts residents hoping to book COVID-19 vaccine appointments through the state website will have additional locations to choose from beyond the state’s seven existing mass vaccination sites. Gov. Charlie Baker said Wednesday that starting this week, the state is adding the Amherst-Northampton Collaborative and the Marshfield Regional Collaborative to the site and will add more local health collaboratives in coming weeks. On April 19, anyone in Massachusetts who hasn’t received a vaccine dose will be allowed to preregister. Also Wednesday, the state’s confirmed death toll from COVID-19 topped 17,000 while more than 1.5 million Massachusetts residents have been fully vaccinated.
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Massachusetts expands COVID vaccine pre-registration system, plans to enhance user experience
Updated Apr 07, 2021;
Massachusetts officials on Wednesday announced the expansion of the COVID-19 vaccine pre-registration system to include the Amherst-Northampton Collaborative and Marshfield Regional Collaborative, with Gov. Charlie Baker noting plans to make more local health collaboratives available on the site later this month.
More than 1.5 million residents have been vaccinated, many at the state’s seven mass vaccination sites. More than three-quarters of the state’s seniors have gotten vaccinated, and the state has ramped up efforts to reach vulnerable populations and many communities of color that have disproportionately been impacted by the pandemic.
Massachusetts expanding vaccine preregistration locations
April 7, 2021
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BOSTON (AP) Massachusetts residents hoping to book COVID-19 vaccination appointments through the state website will have additional locations to choose from beyond the state’s seven existing mass vaccination sites, Gov. Charlie Baker said Wednesday.
Starting this week, the state is adding two additional locations the Amherst-Northampton Collaborative and the Marshfield Regional Collaborative and will add more local health collaboratives to the site in coming weeks, Baker said.
So far, more than 1.5 million people have preregistered for vaccine doses.
“As more people become eligible we hope to see a continued increase in the supply we receive from the federal government because we have of tons of capacity we can put to work,” Baker said, adding that the state has the ability to administer two or three times as many shots as it is currently administering.
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