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This story has been updated to include comments from Wareham Selectman Alan Slavin. Wareham’s Southcoast Health vaccination clinic at the Gleason Family YMCA will no longer be booking appointments for first doses of the covid-19 vaccine, according to a Feb. 12 release from the healthcare system to its patients. The clinic at 33 Charge Pond Road opened on Feb. 10, giving 400 first doses to residents aged 75 and over as part of Phase 2 of the state’s vaccine distribution plan. According to Southcoast Health, the state’s Department of Public Health is not supplying hospitals and healthcare...

The state previously distributed almost half of its vaccine to hospital networks.

In an email to its patients on Friday, Southcoast Health explained the Massachusetts Department of Public Health will no longer send additional first-dose vaccines to hospitals and health systems. The state will re-prioritize and redirect doses to mass vaccination sites, as they have announced two more in Danvers and Dartmouth this week, as well as retail pharmacy sites and community health centers. “All patients and hospital staff with existing appointments will get their first and second shots, and the administration is hopeful more vaccines will arrive soon for more providers, includin...

A pharmacy technical worker at Boston Medical Center removes two trays of Pfizer's COVID-19 vaccine, each containing 975 doses, from a box. They will be placed into a freezer kept at a temperature between -60° and -80°. (Jesse Costa/WBUR) Most hospitals in Massachusetts have stopped scheduling first-dose vaccination appointments, and some are ramping down operations at community vaccination sites, after learning the Baker administration will not send them additional doses for the time being. “Earlier today, we were notified by the state that it will be greatly reducing the supply of vacci...

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 — Fenway Park and the Reggie Lewis Track and Athletic Center — 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 nea...