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Holyoke, Chicopee roll out COVID vaccine bus
Updated May 06, 2021;
HOLYOKE – When the COVID-19 vaccine bus arrived, Maria and Gilberto Vargas and other members of their church were ready to step aboard.
The couple was among more than 120 people who were vaccinated on Thursday when Holyoke Health Center and Tufts Health Plan – Harvard Pilgrim Health unveiled the area’s first mobile clinic at Veteran’s Park on Maple Street.
The couple, who live in Springfield, learned about the free, walk-up clinic on Wednesday from a congregation member.
“A customer passed the information to her and she passed it to us and we passed it to all the brothers and sisters in the congregation,” said Vargas, adding her husband is the pastor of Jehova Tsidkenu in Chicopee. “A few of them have come already. We want the congregation to be safe.” ....

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