Are smaller vaccination sites the key to reaching residents within Massachusetts’ urban centers?
Updated Feb 13, 2021;
Posted Feb 13, 2021
One of the 10 National Guards m edical personel stands outside the doors at the Eastfield Mall vaccination site. (Douglas Hook / MassLive)
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As the vaccine slowly drips through to municipalities across the state, city leaders look at where they could open their own sites for residents.
Springfield houses the only super vaccination site west of Worcester at the Eastfield Mall, which has seen problems with understaffing and overbooking for the Pfizer-BioNTech dose. On Feb. 1, people 75 years old and over were able to book a vaccine at sites across the state. With a limited number of appointments statewide, officials question how many city residents are getting vaccinated at the site.
By Zac Crain
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Arts & Entertainment
February 5, 2021
2:22 pm
Like all of us, the Nasher Sculpture Center has a lot of plans that are on hold. Some of them indefinitely, and I imagine some forever.
In place of those plans, most of us instead have almost a year (and counting) that we can’t get back. March 11, 2020–???? is a still growing pothole in our collective memory waiting to swallow nostalgia or at least run it off the road that is, whenever we get enough distance to start remembering this cursed period of time, or the strength to actually do it. I hope and believe I will acquire the former at some point. I doubt I’ll get the latter. I’ve put most of the past year through a paper shredder in my mind already.
Springfield city councilors urge Gov. Charlie Baker to expand COVID vaccine availability
Updated Feb 04, 2021;
SPRINGFIELD - A group of 10 city councilors submitted a plea to Gov. Charlie Baker on Thursday, urging him to spread his coronavirus vaccine program to reach all neighborhoods of the city.
The councilors said it is “illogical” for the state to think that the nearly 160,000 residents of the city can be served by a single mass COVID-19 site now operated by the state at the Eastfield Mall on Boston Road.
A localized vaccine distribution plan with multiple neighborhood clinics is needed “to ensure equity and access,” the councilors said.
CSU looks to end streak vs Gardner-Webb
January 30, 2021 GMT
Paul Porter Arena, Boiling Springs, North Carolina; Saturday, 5 p.m. EST
BOTTOM LINE: Gardner-Webb looks to extend Charleston Southern’s conference losing streak to 13 games. Charleston Southern’s last Big South win came against the Presbyterian Blue Hose 81-64 on March 3, 2020. Gardner-Webb lost 59-55 loss at home to High Point in its most recent game.
FABULOUS FRESHMEN: Neither team has been afraid to rely on their freshmen this year. Jaheam Cornwall, D’Maurian Williams, Jordan Sears and Jamaine Mann have combined to account for 53 percent of Gardner-Webb’s scoring this season. For Charleston Southern, Ja’Quavian Florence, Melvin Edwards Jr. and Emorie Knox have collectively scored 34 percent of the team’s points this season, including 49 percent of all Buccaneers points over their last five.
Bulldogs take finale Friday afternoon 83-75 Charleston Southern saw a career performance from Ja’Quavian Florence and four players in double figures, but UNC Asheville used a late run for the game’s eighth and final lead change taking the Friday afternoon win 83-75 in Big South men’s basketball action. (Source: Charleston Southern Basketball) By CSU Media Relations | January 15, 2021 at 5:46 PM EST - Updated January 15 at 5:46 PM
ASHEVILLE, N.C. – Charleston Southern saw a career performance from Ja’Quavian Florence and four players in double figures, but UNC Asheville used a late run for the game’s eighth and final lead change taking the Friday afternoon win 83-75 in Big South men’s basketball action.