By Katie Lannan and Michael P. Norton, State House News Service
December 17, 2020
Katie Lannan and Michael P. Norton, State House News Service
Boston Medical Center pharmacy technical worker William Senior removed two trays of Pfizer’s COVID-19 vaccine, each containing 975 doses, from the box it arrived in Monday morning. Jesse Costa/WBUR photo
As the first Covid-19 vaccines began arriving in Massachusetts on Monday, a 96-year-old World War II veteran in Bedford became the first VA patient in the country to get the shot. The VA Bedford Healthcare system announced the milestone over social media, posting that Margaret Klessens, a resident of the Community Living Center in the Edith Nourse Rogers Memorial Veterans Hospital, had received the shot at 12:07 p.m.