Gillette Stadium's mass vaccine site hits major milestone
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Updated: 5:37 PM EDT Mar 15, 2021
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Updated: 5:37 PM EDT Mar 15, 2021
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>> I’M FREE IN TWO WEEKS. TODD: BETH AND TIM ERICKSON, FROM CHARLTON, GOT THEIR SECON VACCINE DOSE TODAY AT FENWAY PARK. THE FREEDOM THEY WILL SOON FEEL STANDS IN CONTRAST TO TH PARALYSIS THEY AND MANY OTHERS ENCOUNTERED WHILE TRYING TO BOOK THEIR FIRST APPOINTMENT ON THE STATE’S VAXFINDER WEBSITE. >> OUR SON HAD TO DO IT FOR US. WE COULDN’T. I TRIED AND TRIED, AND I WAS JUST SO FRUSTRATED, AND SO HE BOOKED BOTH OUR APPOINTMENTS TODD: ON FRIDAY, THE STATE LAUNCHED A NEW, PRE-REGISTRATION SYSTEM FOR THE MASS VACCINATION SITES, LIKE GILLETTE STADIUM, WHERE, AS OF TODAY, MORE THAN 200,000 DOSES HAVE BEEN ADMINISTERED, WHICH IS A SIGN OF THE PROGRESS BEING MADE, -- BEING MADE IN THE VACCINATION EFFORT. >> I THINK WE’RE AT OVER 20% HAVE GOTTEN AT LEAST ONE VACCI IS MY UNDERSTANDING. OVER 10% THAT HAVE GOTTEN FULLY VACCINATED. TODD: ONCE YOU HAVE THE APPOINTMENT, THE ACTUA VACCINATION IS EFFICIENT. >> YOU GO IN THERE, THEY HAVE IT ALL ORCHESTRATED TODD: DESPITE THE INCREASED EASE OF BOOKING AND RECEIVING THE VACCINE, THERE IS STILL SOME RELUCTANCE AND TREPIDATION IN SOME SEGMENTS OF THE POPULATION TO GET VACCINATED. DR. ROBERT FINBERG SAYS THOSE FEARS ARE UNFOUNDE >> THESE VACCINES ARE VERY SAFE. THEY’VE BEEN TESTED, NOW, IN MILLIONS OF PEOPLE, AND WE JUST DO NOT SEE MAJOR SIDE EFFECTS, TODD: THE MOST RECENT DAILY COVID-19 VACCINE REPORT SHOWS MASSACHUSETTS HAS RECEIVED MORE THAN 2.8 MILLION DOSES, AND HA -- 2.8 MILLION DOSES OF VACCINE AND HAS ADMINISTERED ABOUT 90% OF IT REPORTING LIVE AT GILLETTE .