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A regional COVID-19 vaccination site in Massachusetts held a vaccine clinic for high school students aged 16 and older. The clinic ran from 8:30 a.m. to 5:30 p.m. Saturday at the DoubleTree Hotel in Westborough and was open to residents of the towns of Ashland, Boylston, Grafton, Holliston, Northborough, Southborough and Westborough. Sign up for our Newsletters The only COVID-19 vaccine the site offered was Pfizer because it is the only one.
A regional COVID-19 vaccination site in Massachusetts held a vaccine clinic for high school students aged 16 and older.The clinic ran from 8:30 a.m. to 5:30 p.m. Saturday at the DoubleTree Hotel in Westborough and was open to residents of the towns of Ashland, Boylston, Grafton, Holliston, Northborough, Southborough and Westborough.The only COVID-19 vaccine the site offered was Pfizer because it is the only one approved for people under the age of 18. Those aged 16 or 17 had to bring a parent with them or receive a parent s consent, in order to be vaccinated. My dad brought it up a little while ago, and I didn t know if I wanted to get it, said Connor Leonard, a student at Grafton High School. But I decided that I wanted to recently just so I could get it over with. When I heard that this was available for kids his age, I thought a lot of these people know a lot more than I do, so I m going to listen to them and try to keep my kid safe, said Michael Leonard, Connor Leonard s
“It’s the aesthetic,” agreed senior Elexa Reiss. “You drive in with your friends, you look out the window, there are lights, you’re in the middle of Boston. It was just going to be awesome!”
But their hopes for a Copley Plaza prom were dashed as the pandemic restrictions dragged on. In January, class representatives asked the hotel for a refund of their $10,500 deposit, so they could pay for an outdoor event.
“They told us that we were in default of the contract and that we owed them another $30,000 … because we were canceling the event,” says class advisor Karen Carig-O’Neill. “We said we’re not cancelling the event. We said if you can have a COVID guideline event for us, then we will have that. If you can have an outdoor event for us, we are more than willing to do that, but they couldn’t provide that.”