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COVID-19 Vaccine Site To Open In Hard-Hit Chelsea In this July 27, 2020, file photo, a nurse in Binghamton, N.Y., prepares a shot of Moderna's COVID-19 vaccine. Hans Pennink / AP Share In It Together | Feb. 21, 2021 On Thursday, the city of Chelsea is set to open its own coronavirus vaccination center at the headquarters of the Chelsea Collaborative. The East Boston Neighborhood Health Center will operate the new vaccination site. Appointments can be made online and over the phone starting Tuesday morning. The center will initially be limiting access to Chelsea residents only, starting with t...

A patient receives the Pfizer vaccine as the ballpark is opened as a COVID-19 public vaccination site on January 29, 2021 at Fenway Park in Boston, Massachusetts. (Billie Weiss/Boston Red Sox/Getty Images) Getting COVID-19 vaccine shots into the arms of nearly 6 million adult residents will be one of the greatest public health challenges Massachusetts ever attempts. And it’s a challenge we risk failing, if our health institutions don’t convince skeptical minority communities of the urgency and benefits of being inoculated. As the former executive director of the Massachusetts Office for R...

Some 5.1 million Americans are continuing to receive state jobless benefits, down from 5.2 million in the previous week.

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Hundreds of medical professionals call on Baker to prioritize vaccine access for Black and immigrant communities By Hanna Krueger Globe Staff,Updated January 18, 2021, 8:07 p.m. Email to a Friend First responders received vaccinations Monday during the opening day of vaccinations at the Gillette Stadium/CIC Health COVID-19 Vaccination Site, the first large-scale vaccination site in Massachusetts.Jessica Rinaldi/Globe Staff On the day the state’s first mass vaccination site launched at Gillette Stadium, community activists and medical professionals Monday called on Governor Charlie Baker ...