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Eligible Cape Codders searching for COVID-19 vaccines will have an opportunity Tuesday morning to vie for one of 1,740 vaccination slots at two regional clinics on the Outer and Mid-Cape this week. People who live or work on Cape Cod can register online starting at 9 a.m. Tuesday for a Wednesday clinic at the Cape Cod Melody Tent in Hyannis. Eligible residents also can register for a second clinic at the Little Creek parking area in Eastham on Friday, officials with the Barnstable County of Health and Environment said Monday. Officials directed residents to go to maimmunizations.org to regist...

HYANNIS — Barnstable County officials announced Friday that registration is now open for a regional drive-thru vaccination clinic being held Thursday at the Cape Cod Melody Tent. People eligible for the clinic must live and work in Barnstable County and be either in phase one of the vaccination schedule or be in the top priority group in phase two, which is people age 75 years and up. Barnstable County officials said people can register for appointments at http://www.maimmunizations.org if the clinic is not visible on the state map at mass.gov/COVIDVaccineMap. There are 375 slots availa...

On paper, Massachusetts residents age 75 and older are eligible to be immunized against COVID-19 starting Monday. But Barnstable County officials said limited supplies of COVID-19 vaccine and a backlog left over from phase one mean the majority of older residents prioritized in phase two likely will have to wait to book an appointment locally.    “Our policy is to register eligible candidates when we have their dose in hand,” county officials said in a statement Wednesday. “Therefore we will not immediately be making appointments for our residents ages 75 and up.” Barnstable Count...

The state Department of Public Health has added Stop & Shop pharmacies in Hyannis, Harwich and Orleans to a map of Cape Cod vaccination sites for people in phase one of the state's COVID-19 vaccination rollout. The new listings bring the number of vaccination sites on the map to seven. Also vaccinating people in phase one are Walgreens in Mashpee and Hyannis and the CVS in South Yarmouth. A regional site at the Orleans Department of Public Works also is listed on the map, but two clinics scheduled at that location for people in phase one filled up within hours of registration opening Friday.

The 79-year-old retired advertising executive stays in touch with numerous friends and former colleagues across the country. She has noticed how many of them already have had their first shot of the two-dose vaccine designed to immunize people against the novel coronavirus, which has killed more than 410,000 Americans — most of them elderly. “I have friends in Houston, Texas, who had the first shots,” Finkle said. “I have a friend in Louisiana who had the first shot and has an appointment for the second shot.” People around her age who she knows in New York and Florida also have rec...