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At the time of his retirement as pastor of St. Nicholas Parish in Abington in 1997, Father Mark Carr reflected that he remembered the first “documentation” of his desire to be a priest was in a composition he wrote at the Henry Adams School in Boston in fourth grade!
A Bostonian through and through and the son of two immigrants from Ireland, Mark and Mary (McNamara) Carr, Mark F. Carr was born in Boston and educated in its public schools. The names of the schools echo the proud history of the city itself: Henry Adams, Francis Parkman and Boston Latin.
December 18, 2020 GMT
BOSTON (AP) Massachusetts expects to receive 20% fewer doses of the Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine this year after the federal government reduced its allotment, state officials said Friday.
The state joins more than a dozen others that have been told their vaccine shipments will be smaller than planned in coming weeks. Instead of receiving 180,000, Massachusetts now expects to get 145,000.
Republican Gov. Charlie Baker said he hasn’t received an explanation for the cutback.
“We’re certainly frustrated,” Baker said at a COVID-19 briefing on Friday. “We’re working to get clarity on what this means, what happened and how that bump will be dealt with along the way.”
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Published December 18. 2020 10:22PM
BOSTON (AP) Massachusetts expects to receive 20% fewer doses of the Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine this year after the federal government reduced its allotment, state officials said Friday.
The state joins more than a dozen others that have been told their vaccine shipments will be smaller than planned in coming weeks. Instead of receiving 180,000, Massachusetts now expects to get 145,000.
Republican Gov. Charlie Baker said he hasn’t received an explanation for the cutback.
“We’re certainly frustrated,” Baker said at a COVID-19 briefing on Friday. “We’re working to get clarity on what this means, what happened and how that bump will be dealt with along the way.”
BOSTON â Massachusetts is now expecting to receive a little more than 145,000 Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine doses by the end of the year, a roughly 20 percent decline in the anticipated shipment that top officials on Friday characterized as frustrating but among the expected bumps in the process of rolling out a nationwide vaccination program.
âThe vaccine process, much like the pandemic itself, is fast-moving and ever-changing, and we will continue to pivot as necessary,â Secretary of Health and Human Services Marylou Sudders said.
Massachusetts had originally expected 180,000 doses this month of the Pfizer/BioNTech vaccine, and Gov. Charlie Baker said Friday that the state had received word from the federal government that the next few allocations will be smaller than anticipated â 42,900 doses, instead of more than 59,000.