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‘I think people are a little frustrated’: Springfield officials praise President Biden’s COVID plan, but urge faster local vaccine distribution Updated Jan 25, 2021; SPRINGFIELD — City officials and hospital representatives on Monday praised President Joe Biden’s COVID-19 response plan but urged an accelerated, larger local vaccination effort as doses are depleted. The combination of praise and pleas came just prior to the announcement of three new mass vaccination sites in Massachusetts by Gov. Charlie Baker, including a site at the Eastfield Mall scheduled to open Jan. 29. At the...

‘We definitely need to pick up the pace’ on COVID vaccinations, Baystate Health CEO says Updated Jan 11, 2021; Posted Jan 11, 2021 Baystate Health president and CEO Dr. Mark Keroack, right, in file photo, speaks during Springfield's weekly update on the coronavirus pandemic with Dr. Robert Roose, chief medical officer for Mercy Medical Center, and Mayor Domenic J. Sarno. Both hospital systems have depleted first-dose vaccines for COVID-19.Focus Springfield Facebook Share SPRINGFIELD — Massachusetts needs to ramp up the number of people receiving COVID-19 vaccine doses each day in orde...

Springfield will rely on ‘trusted voices’ for vaccine education; new cases in city fall again from previous week Updated Dec 21, 2020; SPRINGFIELD — The city will rely on a group of well-known and well-respected community members to help educate residents about COVID-19 vaccines, officials said Monday during the weekly update on the pandemic at City Hall. Helen Caulton-Harris, commissioner of the city’s Department of Health and Human Services, said she and Mayor Domenic J. Sarno will convene a group of “trusted voices” — health professionals from city neighborhoods — to help ...

‘I did not even feel the needle’: Mercy Medical Center staff receive coronavirus vaccines Updated Dec 16, 2020; Posted Dec 16, 2020 Alexander Payes, a registered nurse in the emergency department of Mercy Medical Center, receives Pfizer's COVID-19 vaccine from Tess Grieshaber, clinical pharmacist, Wednesday, Dec. 16. (Mercy Medical submitted photo by Frank Mastromatteo) Facebook Share “I did not even feel the needle,” Wright said shortly after his immunization. Wright said he stepped up because he believes in the importance of role models in health care in helping to overcome skepti...

3:00 The first doses of a life-saving coronavirus vaccine are expected to arrive in western Massachusetts on Tuesday.  Baystate Health, the region’s largest hospital network, expects its first shipment of the Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine to arrive Tuesday and plans to begin vaccinating healthcare workers the following day. "I consider it to be the beginning of the end to the pandemic," said  Dr. Mark Keroack, the president and CEO of Baystate.  He would not say Monday how many doses the hospital expects in the first shipment.  Boston Medical Center Monday received 1,950 doses of the Pfiz...