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Type 2 diabetes mellitus Massachusetts' list of conditions that qualify for vaccination in phase 2 is a complete replica of the CDC's above, except it opted to also include "asthma (moderate-to-severe)." Now, as Massachusetts makes vaccines available for residents with two or more COVID risk conditions, many residents are trying to figure out if they qualify. Take Suzy Dolan, a Cambridge resident diagnosed with type 1 diabetes. Dolan says the advice from her doctors has been clear since the beginning of the pandemic. “ ‘If you get COVID, you will get really sick,’ is basically what they...

Published February 15. 2021 11:18PM | Updated February 15. 2021 11:24PM CONCORD, N.H. (AP) — Coronavirus developments across New England: MASSACHUSETTS Elderly Massachusetts residents who can’t leave their homes are struggling to get vaccinated, and disability advocates say the state isn’t doing enough to address the problem. “We have been told that the state is planning to work with home health agencies to administer vaccinations to people who are stuck in their homes,” Colin Killick, executive director of Disability Policy Consortium, told The Boston Globe. “What we’ve heard ...

CONCORD, N.H. (AP) — Coronavirus developments across New England: MASSACHUSETTS Elderly Massachusetts residents who can’t leave their homes are struggling to get vaccinated, and disability advocates say the state isn’t doing enough to address the problem. “We have been told that the state is planning to work with home health agencies to administer vaccinations to people who are stuck in their homes,” Colin Killick, executive director of...

‘There are a lot of people who can’t get to Fenway or Gillette’: Some residents feel overlooked in vaccine rollout Thousands who can’t easily leave home struggle to get their shots By Kay Lazar Globe Staff,Updated February 14, 2021, 4:33 p.m. Email to a Friend If anyone has experience overcoming obstacles , it’s John Chappell. The 77-year-old Hanover resident, who is a paraplegic, is a former deputy commissioner of a state agency designed to help disabled people. Yet Chappell, who is now president of an advocacy group called the Disability Policy Consortium, is strugg...

They have disabilities and serious medical conditions. But under state guidelines, they don’t qualify for early vaccination Deanna Pan © John Tlumacki/Globe Staff Monica Jennings has 22q11.2 deletion syndrome, a genetic disorder caused by a tiny missing piece of her 22nd chromosome. Under Massachusetts’ rules dictating who is eligible for early access to the COVID-19 vaccine, Jennings doesn’t qualify despite a variety of health conditions. WEYMOUTH — Since the pandemic began, Monica Jennings’s world, already small, has gotten smaller. Friends no longer visit. Fami...