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BOSTON — Pharmacists have begun vaccinating residents and staff of long-term care facilities in Massachusetts.
"Hallelujah," said Shirley Nolan, the first resident to be vaccinated Monday in the dining room of the Edgar P. Benjamin Healthcare Center in Boston.
Teams from CVS and Walgreens pharmacies are traveling to about 2,000 facilities throughout Massachusetts to administer the vaccine to about 173,000 people starting Monday, according to the Department of Public Health. The doses come from the state's second shipment of the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine.
"I'm glad that I got a shot of something that can help this virus that's going around," Nolan said after receiving her first dose. "This could be the start of helping people stop dying."