Appointments for COVID-19 vaccination shots next week at mass vaccination sites in Massachusetts were fully booked Thursday morning, shortly after the state.
Boston neighborhoods hardest hit by COVID pandemic have the lowest vaccination rates, city data shows MassLive.com 3/3/2021 Tanner Stening, masslive.com
Many Boston neighborhoods that were hit hard early on in the COVID-19 pandemic are posting fewer vaccinations than others, where the impact has been less severe, according to new data released by the city.
Neighborhoods like Dorchester, East Boston and Mattapan had the lowest rate of first doses administered per capita than all other parts of the city, with 10,636, 10,403 and 10,560 per 100,000 residents, respectively.
Those three neighborhoods, which are predominately communities of color, had some of the highest infection rates in the state earlier in the pandemic. First doses administered per capita in neighborhoods like Jamaica Plain, the South End and West Roxbury were nearly double what they were in harder hit zones, at 18,882, 19,842 and 20,068 per 100,000 respectively, the data shows.
Updated: 11:23 AM EST Feb 28, 2021 A community-led partnership in Boston is working to vaccinate more people of color against the coronavirus.The Black Boston COVID-19 Coalition has partnered with CIC Health to take over operations at the vaccination site inside the Reggie Lewis Center in the city s Roxbury neighborhood.The coalition is hosting a two-day Black History Month vaccination event this weekend in the hopes of changing perceptions of the COVID-19 vaccine in Black and brown communities. We felt it was very important to recruit as many people that looked like and reflect the population that we re serving, said Dr. Ellana Stinson, manager of the medical site. By doing this, I feel like a lot of comments that I ve been hearing are that patients are really excited that they were able to participate in this and have this experience. BBCC organizers say vaccine registrations by the city s Black and Latino residents have defied all expectations.U.S. Rep. Ayanna Pressle
The expanded vaccination facility, along with eased public health restrictions expected to begin Monday for much of the state, come amid recent declines in new daily cases and deaths in Massachusetts due to the virus.