PITTSFIELD Though the agenda hasn’t been made clear, members of an elected board in Pittsfield want to talk to the company whose new cell tower is generating health complaints
Adrian Elliot wants Black and Latino county residents, and all people of color in the Berkshires, to know that he thinks the COVID-19 vaccines are âamazing.â
Speaking at a panel dedicated to assuaging vaccine concerns among people of color, Elliot, chief of emergency medicine at Fairview Hospital in Great Barrington, stressed that the vaccines were proved safe and effective in clinical trials that included thousands of Black and Latino people.
And while he thinks âamazingâ is a word that should be reserved for rare occasions, like landing a rover on Mars, he happily applied it to the vaccines.
âDo [the vaccines] work?â Elliot asked. âShort answer, they work. Slightly longer answer, they work really well.â
PITTSFIELD Berkshire hospital executives and public health officials have joined together to develop a streamlined vaccination plan for later phases of the rollout, which could see as many as