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Healthcare Workers Receiving State’s First COVID-19 Vaccinations

December 15, 2020

Frontline workers at Tufts Medical Center are among the first people in Boston to get the coronavirus vaccine.

Across the Commonwealth, a handful of employees at Melrose-Wakefield Hospital and Lawrence General rolled up their sleeves to get the shot.
 

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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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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.

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