Four National Guard members and 13 additional health care workers from the state arrived Thursday at a city nursing home where reports of neglect have accelerated in recent weeks amid
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Gouveia says it s dangerous, pointing to people soliciting eligible seniors online and offering money to be their companions so they can get vaccinated, too. You re talking about getting into a car with someone you don t know, she said. Someone who is saying they will pay you to accompany you to the vaccination site.
There are also complaints that adding companions to the list pushes others further down including teachers.
In Boston Public Schools, there are 3,000 teachers working in person, and there have been more than 150 cases of COVID-19. The state should have followed the recommendation of the CDC to prioritize not just 65 and older folks, but also K-12 educators, said Jessica Tang, president of the Boston Teachers Union.
The Baker administration has unveiled a map identifying locations where Massachusetts residents may roll up their sleeves for the COVID-19 vaccine and not one of them is located anywhere near Fall River, New Bedford, or Cape Cod. It s outrageous, New Bedford Mayor Jon Mitchell told WBSM s Barry Richard today. I m at a loss. When I first saw the map, I thought they must have made some sort of mistake. But there s no mistake. How on earth do you justify that decision?
Mitchell said New Bedford and Fall River are cash-strapped cities with a high rates of COVID-19. Anyone from the low-income cities who wants to get the shot will have to travel to Gillette Stadium in Foxboro, a site that s about a 50-minute drive from the Whaling City.