The collaborative has announced plans to scale down its three largest COVID-19 vaccine clinic sites in Great Barrington, North Adams and Pittsfield gradually over the next month and offer pop-up clinics and vaccination at testing sites.
"This is really the next phase vaccination, these large clinics were stood up so that we could quickly and efficiently vaccinate as many people as possible and they've been incredibly successful," Executive Director of Communications, Planning and Development Jennifer Vrabel said.
"And we're finding that we've now reached a critical mass where most of the people who are eligible and who wanted to get really actively engaged in the process, have come out and gotten it at the large clinics, and at the height, we could vaccinate with all of our volunteers, around 1,000 people a day, and now, we've got six-hour clinic blocks, and 100 people coming in. So we're shifting to this model have more availability more days and more consistent times by offering vaccination at our testing centers."