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Storm to close New Hampshire vaccine sites Tuesday

CONCORD, N.H. (AP) Coronavirus developments across New England: MASSACHUSETTS Elderly Massachusetts residents who can’t leave their homes are struggling to get vaccinated, and disability advocates say the state isn’t doing enough to address the problem. “We have been told that the state is planning to work with home health agencies to administer vaccinations to people who are stuck in their homes,” Colin Killick, executive director of.

Homebound seniors and disabled residents feel overlooked in COVID vaccine rollout

‘There are a lot of people who can’t get to Fenway or Gillette’: Some residents feel overlooked in vaccine rollout Thousands who can’t easily leave home struggle to get their shots By Kay Lazar Globe Staff,Updated February 14, 2021, 4:33 p.m. Email to a Friend If anyone has experience overcoming obstacles , it’s John Chappell. The 77-year-old Hanover resident, who is a paraplegic, is a former deputy commissioner of a state agency designed to help disabled people. Yet Chappell, who is now president of an advocacy group called the Disability Policy Consortium, is struggling to get a COVID-19 vaccine because he is bedbound and can’t find a way to get the shot at home.

They have disabilities and serious medical conditions But under state guidelines, they don t qualify for early vaccination

They have disabilities and serious medical conditions. But under state guidelines, they don’t qualify for early vaccination Deanna Pan © John Tlumacki/Globe Staff Monica Jennings has 22q11.2 deletion syndrome, a genetic disorder caused by a tiny missing piece of her 22nd chromosome. Under Massachusetts’ rules dictating who is eligible for early access to the COVID-19 vaccine, Jennings doesn’t qualify despite a variety of health conditions. WEYMOUTH Since the pandemic began, Monica Jennings’s world, already small, has gotten smaller. Friends no longer visit. Family doesn’t come. She spends her days confined within the purple walls of her bedroom watching anime, reading fantasy novels, and dabbling in online fanfiction.

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