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NORTH PROVIDENCE – A municipal vaccine clinic will start back up in North Providence this Thursday, April 22, says Mayor Charles Lombardi, representing a significant win for the town and its residents.
Lombardi said that with this vaccination clinic in operation for the next four to five weeks, twice per week after this week, he expects to have everyone in town who wants a vaccine to be vaccinated around the end of May, allowing for relative normalcy this summer.
“The goal now is to get the shots out as quickly as possible so we can get back to some normalcy,” said Fire Chief John Silva, who will oversee the team administering the vaccines at North Providence High School.
NORTH PROVIDENCE – Mayor Charles Lombardi says he’s received word from the state that the town will be allowed to keep its own vaccination site in business at North Providence High School going forward.
Lombardi said he read the news two weeks ago that communities such as Providence and Pawtucket were getting to keep their own sites because of the density of their populations and the strength of the pandemic there, and so he called state officials to ask them about North Providence, where he noted that 34,000 people live within 5.2 square miles and the town has the second or third highest population of seniors.
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NORTH PROVIDENCE – The town’s first in a series of vaccine clinics for residents age 75 and older over the weekend was seamless and left everyone “very, very happy and satisfied,” said Mayor Charles Lombardi.
The mayor said a total of 259 people were vaccinated in the closed-pod clinic at North Providence High School last Saturday.
“Not one vaccine was left over,” he said, adding that he told Fire Chief John Silva, the town’s EMA director, that with vaccines at a shortage, there was no option to have any left at the end of the day.
Lombardi thanked Silva and the Fire Department, as well as Linda Giorgio and staff at the North Providence Mancini Center and other volunteers, for their work in making the first clinic such a success.