FRAMINGHAM The city has administered more than 500 COVID-19 vaccines to residents as part of the state’s vaccine equity program.
On Monday, the Framingham Public Health Department reported that 457 first doses of the Moderna vaccine had been administered since March 24. In addition, 53 doses of the single-shot Johnson & Johnson vaccine were given to residents who are disabled and confined to their homes due to debilitating health conditions.
Framingham is among 20 communities included in the equity program, which targets areas whose residents have been disproportionately hurt by COVID-19.
Since late March, small-scale vaccination clinics have been held at community organizations that serve vulnerable populations. Last week, clinics were held at the Brazilian American Center, Pelham Learning Center and the MetroWest Worker Center.
One motherâs quest captures the challenges as Biden seeks to reunite separated migrant families
By Jazmine Ulloa Globe Staff,Updated February 6, 2021, 3:29 p.m.
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WASHINGTON â Angelica Gonzalez-Garcia answered the call from an unknown number with suspicion.
She was scared and alone in a small apartment in Framingham, desperate to find her 7-year-old daughter after they had been separated a month earlier without any explanation at an Arizona detention center. At the time, in mid-2018, the
public was only becoming aware of what immigration lawyers along the US-Mexico border had long suspected: The US government was splitting migrant families apart not by incompetence or chance but as a matter of policy, a form of deterrence, as then Attorney General Jeff Sessions described it, to discourage