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Massachusetts lagging behind most other states in COVID-19 vaccination rollout Just over 5 percent of state residents have gotten a vaccine shot By Robert Weisman and Kay Lazar Globe Staff,Updated January 23, 2021, 2:41 p.m. Email to a Friend Gene Leonard, a WWII Army Air Corps gunner who served on a B-17 in Europe, beamed after getting his vaccine from Walgreens pharmacists Erin Smith at the Brightview Country Club Heights in Woburn.Lane Turner/Globe Staff Six weeks after the first COVID-19 vaccines were authorized for emergency use, Massachusetts — celebrated as a national health care ...

ABC News Turn on desktop notifications for breaking stories about interest? OffOn It remains unclear whether Biden can boost the supply of doses as promised. • 12 min read Biden lays out COVID-19 response plan President Joe Biden signed executive actions on establishing a testing board, extending mask mandates on some forms of transportation and requiring travelers to the U.S. to test negative.Alex Wong/Getty Images President Joe Biden is out with a new 200-page COVID-19 national strategy aimed at turning around the pandemic, including an ambitious new effort to boost supply and set up va...

Transcript Unger: Hello. This is the American Medical Association's COVID-19 update. Today, we're talking about the challenges we've seen with vaccine distribution and administration at the state level. I'm joined today by James Blumenstock, senior vice president for pandemic response and recovery at the Association of State and Territorial Health Officials or ASTHO, in Brielle, New Jersey, Rebecca Coyle, executive director, American Immunization Registry Association in Washington D.C. and Claire Hannan, executive director, Association of Immunization Managers in Rockville, Maryland. I'm Todd...

A nationwide COVID-19 vaccine shortage is creating postponements and frustrations among Florida seniors hoping to get vaccinated against the coronavirus, which has infected some 1.6 million people in the state and killed more than 24,500 — 83% of them 65 or older. Florida’s Surgeon General Dr. Scott Rivkees said the state has little choice but to wait for the federal government — and vaccine manufacturers — to increase vaccine allotments being sent to the states. This affected a mass vaccination effort in The Villages by the company Global Medical Response, which temporari...

With president Joe Biden now in the White House his bold pledge to vaccinate 100 million people in 100 days is to be tested. If fulfilled effectively, Biden’s promise would strike a significant blow against the coronavirus and give a country battered by the pandemic a major boost after a year of mismanaged response that has seen more than 400,000 people die and more than 24 million infected. But carrying out Biden’s promise will be a challenging...