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Mass. notifies state providers to halt Johnson & Johnson vaccine rollout Email to a Friend A nurse filled a syringe with the Johnson & Johnson COVID-19 vaccine in the Staten Island borough of New York.Mary Altaffer/Associated Press Massachusetts and several other states, including Maine and Rhode Island, on Tuesday swiftly announced pauses of the administration of the Johnson & Johnson vaccine, abiding by federal recommendations so officials can investigate reports of blood clots in six recipients out of the more than 6 million people who have received the single-dose shot. The Massachusetts ...

How Massachusetts will roll out COVID-19 vaccines Frontline health care workers, residents of nursing homes and long-term-care facilities, emergency workers, and staff and residents of prisons and homeless shelters will be among the first to receive COVID-19vaccinations in Massachusetts. At a December 9, 2020, press conference, Gov. Charlie Baker said the state plans to distribute more than 2 million doses by the end of March 2021, and that the vaccine will be free to everyone. He said that the timing of the rollout would depend on federal authorizations for the vaccines. The Baker administra...