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COVID vaccine rollout: First responders in Massachusetts to start getting vaccinated Monday
Updated Jan 11, 2021;
Posted Jan 11, 2021
Firefighters in Quincy, Massachusetts were among the first first responders in the state to receive the COVID-19 vaccine. As the officials look to roll out more doses of the vaccine, though, many police officers and firefighter say they don t plan on getting vaccinated. (Friends of Quincy Firefighters IAFF Local 792)
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Hundreds of first responders in Massachusetts are expected to start receiving doses of the coronavirus vaccine Monday as part of the state’s phased rollout of the immunization.
Gov. Charlie Baker announced last week that more than 45,000 police officers, firefighters, emergency medical personnel and other first responders in Massachusetts would be eligible for the first dose of the vaccine beginning Jan. 11.
‘For the safety of our employees’: Regional COVID vaccine clinic for first responders will happen despite some saying they won’t get it
Updated Jan 08, 2021;
Two town officials in Auburn appear to be at odds in their attitudes toward the coronavirus vaccine.
After the Auburn police chief stated last week he and roughly half the other officers in his department won’t get the vaccine, citing its speedy development and unknown long-term impact, the community’s town manager asserted his opinion is not representative of her administration as a whole.
In an interview with MassLive, Auburn’s 56-year-old police chief, Andrew J. Sluckis Jr., claimed, given his age and lack of any underlying health conditions, he would have more than a 99% chance of surviving COVID-19 were he to catch the viral respiratory infection.