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Rhode Island has received an infusion of more than $70 million in federal funding to bolster the state’s coronavirus testing and vaccination programs, U.S. Sen. Jack Reed announced Monday. The money from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention will be used to expand COVID-19 testing and vaccine distribution across the state, the Democrat said in a statement....

While vaccine distribution is in full swing nationwide, some states are outperforming others when it comes to doses distributed and administered. A few New England states are near the top of one or both of those lists, according to the Center for Disease Control and Prevention’s COVID Data Tracker, last updated Monday evening. But some show disparities, where the...

With most K-12 schools in Massachusetts remaining in some sort of hybrid or remote learning so far this school year, many districts have set a goal of returning to more traditional learning in the fall. But there are currently no plans to vaccinate children — which means we’d be relying on the herd immunity of adults only in the hope…

Massachusetts Gov. Charlie Baker has provided new information on the plan to vaccinate people across the commonwealth.

COVID-19 infections and deaths continue to grow in many parts of the country while vaccine distribution continues to lag.

Maine’s Scarborough Downs horse racetrack will be the state’s first mass vaccination site.

More than 13,000 Vermonters who are 75 or older have signed up to be vaccinated against COVID-19 in the first few hours the Vermont Health Department’s signup site was open Monday. The vaccinations will begin on Wednesday for the group, who are part of phase 1B of the program in Vermont. The state estimates there are about 49,000 people in…

President Joe Biden said he expects anyone who wants a vaccine to be able to get one by the spring and he upped his vaccination goal for his first 100 days in office, NBC News reports. Biden said Monday he now thinks the country can administer 1.5 million shots a day in the coming weeks and give 150 million vaccinations over the…

The spoilage of nearly 2,000 COVID-19 vaccines at the VA Medical Center in Boston’s Jamaica Plain neighborhood sparked a reaction from people in the city. Anna Nagurney, a professor of operations management at the Isenberg School of Management at the University of Massachusetts Amherst, is an expert in supply chains, including vaccine rollouts. She says the loss of 1,900 vaccine…

A lot of people are eager to get the coronavirus vaccine, but some people of color in hard-hit communities are still hesitant to get it.

Nearly 2,000 doses of the coronavirus vaccine spoiled this week at the Jamaica Plain VA Medical Center in Boston, a spokesperson confirmed, at a time when vaccine doses coming to Massachusetts are down 73%. The Veterans Affairs Boston Pharmacy staff on Tuesday found out that a freezer at the Jamaica Plain campus failed, ruining 1,900 doses of Moderna’s COVID-19 vaccine….

Registration for the next phase of New Hampshire’s coronavirus vaccination plan got off to a quick start Friday, with nearly 150,000 people signing up in the first seven hours, Gov. Chris Sununu said. That’s almost half the people who are eligible. Registration opened at 8 a.m. for the approximately 325,000 people in phase 1B of the state’s vaccination plan....

The CDC says the two products are not interchangeable, but it added in updated guidance posted Thursday that it’s OK to mix the shots in rare circumstances.

Gov. Phil Scott and other Vermont officials detailed how people over the age of 75 can get vaccinated during a virtual coronavirus update Friday as they remain in quarantine. Starting Monday, Jan. 25, people over the age of 75 can begin making appointments to get their first dose of the coronavirus vaccine online or over the phone. Vaccine clinics will…

A freezer malfunction discovered Tuesday at the Jamaica Plain VA Medical Center in Boston ruined 1,900 doses of Moderna’s COVID-19 vaccine.

Phase 2 of Massachusetts’ vaccine distribution timeline is scheduled to begin in less than two weeks – that’s two months ahead of the general population. Some were surprised to learn that one “co-morbid condition” that qualifies people to get the vaccine in that earlier phase is smoking. “Doesn’t really seem right to me, but on the other hand, I do…

Nearly 2,000 doses of the coronavirus vaccine spoiled on a truck in Jamaica Plain Tuesday, a VA spokesman confirmed, at a time when vaccine doses coming to Massachusetts are down 73%.

If a second dose of the coronavirus vaccine is not available within the recommended three-week time frame, it can still be effective up to six weeks later, according to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention

Smokers in Massachusetts may be able to get the coronavirus vaccine as soon as February after a recent change in the state’s priority order for the vaccine.

Public health experts are blaming COVID-19 vaccine shortages around the U.S. in part on the Trump administration’s push to get states to vastly expand their vaccination drives to reach the nation’s estimated 54 million people age 65 and over