And if you don’t own a car then just walk up, register and get vaccinated.
This latest method of getting free COVID-19 vaccinations in the city comes courtesy of the Fall River Emergency Medical Services’ newly acquired mobile trailer unit.
Wednesday marked the second day the 31-foot-long, towable trailer which is now equipped with a small refrigerator for storing vaccine doses was put into service by EMS workers and local health department nurses.
The location was the front parking lot area of the Seabra Foods supermarket on Stafford Road.
“We had grocery shopping to do today so it all worked out,” said Lynn Keilty, who lives in the city’s Globe section.
FALL RIVER If you can’t get to the vaccine the vaccine will come to you.
That’s been the case during the past five weeks for a growing number of homebound Fall River residents who either are physically unable or would have great difficulty leaving their residences in order to visit a COVID-19 vaccination site.
The city’s home-visit vaccine program has been handled by the Fire Department’s EMS, or emergency medical services, division.
As of Wednesday afternoon, a total of 278 mostly elderly and incapacitated city residents had received either Moderna or Johnson & Johnson shots, according to EMS Lt. Nick Silva.
This Mother’s Day, local women who gave birth during the pandemic are still handling big changes to the familiar patterns of new motherhood.
“It was a lot of unknowns and it was a weird time to navigate,” said New Bedford resident Becca Kurie.
Kurie gave birth to her second child, Olivia, last April, as the state locked down and COVID-19 cases surged upward.
With the birth of her second child, her family flew in from the Midwest to help out during the first few weeks, and friends came to visit and meet her son.
“You very quickly get excited to show off your new baby, and that was just not the case this time,” she said.
FALL RIVER All three monks got their vaccines on Sunday.
The same held true for the sole female nun who also resides at the Khmer Buddhist Temple on Highland Avenue.
“I’m happy,” said Lompha Riph, a petite woman who shaves her head in a manner consistent with Buddhist tradition.
A total of 68 people, most of them members of Fall River’s Cambodian community, came through the doors of the three-story dwelling to get a first-round shot of the Moderna COVID-19 vaccine.
Members of the city’s emergency medical services, a division of Fall River’s fire department, were on hand to administer the vaccines.
FALL RIVER An effort is under way to establish a collaborative quartet of regional COVID-19 vaccine sites in Bristol County.
Three of the sites would operate one day a week. The fourth would administer vaccine doses on two separate weekdays.
The proposal made to the Massachusetts Department of Public Health would provide regional vaccination sites in Taunton, Fall River, Somerset and Attleboro.
More than 1,550 Bristol residents have died since the advent of the pandemic a year ago, according to state health officials.
Taunton Mayor Shaunna O’Connell issued a statement Wednesday citing the collaboration between her office and that of Fall River Health and Human Services Director Tess Curran.