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In Massachusetts, Inmates Will Be Among First to Get Vaccines As prison outbreaks rise, the state has moved inmates forward in the line to receive inoculations. The Massachusetts Correctional Institution in Shirley, Mass. Nearly 4,000 cases of the coronavirus have been recorded among inmates and corrections officers in the state, and the number of incarcerated people testing positive has been steadily increasing.Credit...Jessey Dearing for The Boston Globe, via Getty Images Dec. 18, 2020 Tens of thousands of prison inmates in Massachusetts will be among the first to be offered coronavirus vac...

Pregnant? Allergies? Immunocompromised? You're still eligible for COVID-19 vaccine © Jeff Kowalsky/AFP via Getty Images Pins for Beaumont Health Care workers after receiving their first dose of the Pfizer/BioNTech Covid-19 vaccine are seen at their service center in Southfield, Mich., Dec. 15, 2020. The Food and Drug Administration's emergency use authorization of the Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine has generated understandable excitement, but even as the first doses of the vaccine are administered, mixed messages have caused confusion about who is eligible. Massive phase 3 trials show...

Experience in early hotspots shows need for collaboration, coordination   Bruce Walker, the Phillip T. and Susan M. Ragon Professor of Medicine at Massachusetts General Hospital and co-director of MassCPR, gave a brief overview of the unprecedented, rapid development of vaccines for SARS-CoV-2, noting that many have wondered how the vaccines can have been developed so quickly without compromising safety. “The answers to that are not due to cutting corners but really to tremendous scientific advances—and to some decisions that were made early on to accelerate those aspects that co...