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Needham Public Health hosts vaccination clinic for residents of town s housing authority
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One-hundred Needham Housing Authority residents received their first COVID-19 vaccination Saturday during a clinic hosted by Needham Public Health.
Around 455 Needham residents live in housing managed by the NHA, where rent is paid with varying levels of assistance from either the state or federal government.
According to Needham Public Health Director Timothy McDonald, the clinic employed Russian, Mandarin Chinese, and Spanish translators to assist some residents.
McDonald said the town originally requested 200 doses from the state s COVID-19 Response Command Center for the Needham clinic, but in an email sent on Monday, he reported his department only received 100 shots to distribute to NHA residents.
COVID Update: Needham adds 27 new cases last week; town unveils COVID dashboard
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Just less than a year after Massachusetts declared a state of emergency around the coronavirus, more than 2 million doses of COVID-19 vaccines have been put into people s arms here.
The Department of Public Health reported Friday that 2,005,800 vaccine doses have been administered in Massachusetts including 1,355,389 people who have gotten the first of two doses of the Moderna or Pfizer vaccines, 646,005 people who have received both doses of the Moderna or Pfizer shots, and 4,406 people who have gotten the single-shot Johnson & Johnson vaccine.
That means there are 650,411 people in Massachusetts who are fully vaccinated against COVID-19, an increase of 35,822 people from Thursday s report.