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Baker Tells Residents To Stay Home for the Holidays as Vaccination of Health Workers Get Under Way

December 15, 2020

Caregivers at Tufts, as well as colleagues at two sister community hospitals, MelroseWakefield Hospital and Lowell General Hospital, were selected to be vaccinated Tuesday as hospitals start providing the first of the two shots required for the vaccine.

North of Boston, MelroseWakefield Healthcare — composed of MelroseWakefield Hospital in Melrose and Lawrence Memorial Hospital in Medford — got its first delivery Tuesday morning.
 

Read the full article in the Boston Globe

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“I’m absolutely going to get it, yes!,” said Dr. Steven Sbardella, the chief medical officer at MelroseWakefield Hospital. “I hope to be one of the first ones to get it.”

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