As Phase 2 begins, Fenway Park and Reggie Lewis Center on the front lines against COVID-19 By John Hilliard Globe Staff,Updated January 31, 2021, 8:32 p.m. Email to a Friend A waiting area is set up as people are monitored after they got their COVID-19 vaccination shot at Fenway Park in Boston.John Tlumacki/Globe Staff Two Boston institutions â Fenway Park and the Reggie Lewis Track and Athletic Center â will be on the front lines of the fight against the coronavirus as they are transformed into vaccination centers The disease has killed 14,287 people in Massachusetts and caused nearly a half-million infectionsand the need to inoculate against it grows more urgent with the rise of dangerous variants of the virus. The sports arenas â one longtime home to dreams of glory, the other honoring the legacy of a basketball hero â will cradle hope that the tide will soon turn against COVID-19.