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“I’m here to tell you that you should get the shot,” said CDC Director Dr. Nirav Shah. “Sadly, we’ve talked about just in the past week how two people in their 20′s in Maine died from COVID-19.”
New England states encouraging COVID vaccination
May 2, 2021
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BOSTON (AP) After an initial surge in vaccinations against COVID-19, the number of people receiving the shots in Massachusetts has been declining for nine days.
The Boston Globe reports the state’s day for peak inoculations came April 22, three days after all adults became eligible for the shots on April 19.
“We’re definitely seeing a decline in the past week or so,” said Dr. Alastair Bell, of Boston Medical Center, where the number of first doses at its South End hospital and five satellite sites in Boston neighborhoods dipped to about 800 a day last week from about 1,500 the previous week.
Baystate Health COVID hospitalizations drop from 70 to 52 in week
Updated 3:49 PM;
SPRINGFIELD – The number of patients admitted in critical care units at Baystate Health hospitals with COVID-19 has dropped by more than 20% in a week.
As of Sunday, hospital staff is caring for 52 patients with confirmed COVID-19, of those 14 are being treated in critical care units. There were 70 patients being treated with COVID-19 a week ago and 17 were in critical care units, officials said.
The number of patients hospitalized at Baystate Health facilities with COVID-19 had been decreasing slowly before this week’s dip. The week before there were 72 people and the two weeks previously there were 79, officials said.