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Massachusetts Gov. Charlie Baker on Thursday said he will next week lift a stay-at-home advisory and an order requiring all businesses close by 9:30 p.m. as health officials see encouraging trends in the state’s COVID-19 data. The orders will be lifted Monday at 5 a.m., Baker said, adding the moves were possible because COVID-19 hospitalizations and the state’s average...

Coronavirus vaccines are being rolled out at pharmacies across Massachusetts, a happy day for people who got their first dose.

Massachusetts residents, qualified to get a COVID-19 vaccine, are beginning to have more options of places to get vaccinated.

A group of about 94,000 people living and working in group homes, shelters and correctional facilities is next up for coronavirus vaccinations in Massachusetts. This group, officially defined as those who are part of congregate care facilities, will become eligible on Monday to receive the first of two shots, the Baker administration announced Wednesday. Staff and residents in this category...

Rite Aid has given more than 5,000 Covid vaccations so far and it’s seen the rollout’s challenges firsthand, its CEO said.

“I think by the end of February, we’re going to find that we have to open up eligibility pretty wide,” Dr. Scott Gottlieb told CNBC.

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Vaccinating residents and staff at nursing homes and assisted living facilities is one of the first major steps in the nationwide rollout.

The announcement in 2018 that the CEOs of Amazon, Berkshire Hathaway and JPMorgan Chase had teamed up sent shock waves throughout the world of health care.

New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo said he would propose a law that would make it a crime to sell or administer Covid-19 vaccines to people trying to skip in line.

As consumers face rising health-care costs, Walmart is diving deeper into the business, opening a number of doctor-run clinics called Walmart Health.

“Our main advantage is that we have a centralized health-care system,” said Eran Segal, a computational biologist in Rehovot, Israel.

“We agree that that number is lower than what we had hoped for,” Moncef Slaoui, chief advisor of Operation Warp Speed, said Wednesday.

Biden Covid advisor Dr. Luciana Borio said the incoming administration will have to “dramatically ramp up” support to states to distribute the vaccine.

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said just over 11.4 million doses had been distributed as of Tuesday, short of the federal government’s goal.

Beginning Monday, CVS Health will administer Pfizer’s COVID-19 vaccine at about 2,000 long-term care facilities in Massachusetts. The move comes after the Rhode Island-based company began administering doses of the Pfizer vaccine in Connecticut, New Hampshire and other states last week as part of a larger effort to vaccinate at about 40,000 nursing homes and assisted living facilities nationwide. An…

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Beginning Monday, CVS Health will administer Pfizer’s COVID-19 vaccine at about 2,000 long-term care facilities in Massachusetts. It’s part of a larger effort to vaccinate at about 40,000 nursing homes and assisted living facilities nation-wide.

West Virginia has leaned on local pharmacies to vaccinate its long-term care facility staff and residents, Gov. Jim Justice told CNBC.

CVS Health Corp. says it will roll out coronavirus vaccines to 1,995 senior living facilities in Massachusetts starting Dec. 28, as part of a nationwide distribution at more than 40,000 senior living facilities throughout the country.  Both CVS and Walgreens were tapped by the federal government to distribute the vaccine to staff and residents senior living facilities. CVS, headquartered in…