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Officials expect a mass booster shot site at Fenway to be up and running in a couple of weeks as the city seeks to counter the spread of the omicron variant.

The start of next year’s baseball season may be in jeopardy, but the turnstiles will be turning again at Fenway Park in January, when it is expected to reopen as a COVID-19 booster clinic. Gov. Charlie Baker’s administration and the Red Sox are in talks to reopen the ballpark to increase access to COVID-19 vaccine boosters as examples of...

Another mass vaccination site will close its doors Wednesday as Massachusetts surpasses Gov. Charlie Baker’s goal of vaccinating more than four million people. Baker’s long-sought goal was to fully vaccinate 4.1 million people against the coronavirus by early June. Massachusetts reached that goal Tuesday, albeit a few weeks late. Meanwhile, the mass vaccination site at the Natick Mall is...

The mass vaccination site at Hynes Convention Center in Boston administered its final COVID-19 shots Tuesday. Massachusetts is in the process of closing its state-run sites and focusing instead on getting the coronavirus vaccine to people in underserved communities. The Hynes site opened on March 22, when it replaced the one at Fenway Park ahead of the Boston Red Sox’…

Four of the seven mass COVID-19 vaccination sites in Massachusetts will close by the end of June as the state moves into the “next phase” of the vaccine distribution process.

The state is hoping to vaccine 4.1 million in the next few weeks through smaller venues.

Massachusetts has received more than a half-million doses of the coronavirus vaccine this week, a majority of which are headed to health systems and health care providers, the Baker Administration confirmed on Thursday. According to data from the Massachusetts Department of Public Health, 85% of the state’s current first and second doses have been administered, as some sites report supply…

While the number of people getting coronavirus vaccines in Massachusetts has gone up, there is now a surplus of appointments.

A different kind of race is taking its third lap at the New Hampshire Motor Speedway this weekend, as the state holds another mass vaccination event at the Loudon facility. Gov. Chris Sununu this past week set a goal of giving out 12,000 total doses during New Hampshire’s third vaccination drive at the racetrack, all of which were provided by…

The Bay State is forcing elementary school to re-open Monday as part of its phased reopening plan. Ahead of the change, teachers are being prioritized at mass vaccinations sites throughout the state.

Massachusetts’ mass COVID-19 vaccination sites are prioritizing shots for educators and school staff on Saturday as the state readies to fully re-open schools for in-person learning. The state is forcing elementary schools to reopen Monday as part of its phased school reopening plan. “As long as the teachers are vaccinated, it should be safe. And if they have the proper…

CDC Director Rochelle Walensky, who previously worked at Massachusetts General Hospital, toured the Hynes Convention Center in Boston on Tuesday to see one of the state’s FEMA mass vaccination sites.

Gov. Charlie Baker provides update on COVID-19 and vaccine distribution in Massachusetts.

Teachers, staff and more educators had their first of four exclusive scheduled days to get a shot at a mass vaccination site in the state.

Fenway Park may be the smallest stadium in baseball, but it’s had an outsized impact for public health over the past two months. Usually in hibernation from its primary operations over winter months, Fenway opened its doors at the end of January to serve as the second mass vaccination site in Massachusetts. Since a soft launch on Jan. 29, more…

Workers in K-12 education got special access to vaccines at seven mass vaccination sites on Saturday.

Massachusetts’ mass COVID-19 vaccination sites held their first clinics specifically designated for educators and school staff, Saturday. The state has designated four days where its mass vaccination sites will only offer first dose appointments for K-12 educators, K-12 school staff and child care workers. The dates include: March 27, April 3, April 10 and April 11. A total of 400,000…

Massachusetts residents 60 years and older and a new group of essential workers become eligible for the COVID-19 vaccine Monday as the Hynes Convention Center officially opens as a mass vaccination site.

The Hynes Convention Center officially opens as the state’s newest mass vaccination site in Boston’s Back Bay neighborhood Monday as more people become eligible in Massachusetts. After a soft launch last week, the Hynes officially opens Monday in a transition to replace the large-scale clinic at Fenway Park. The soft launch kicked off with capacity for 500 daily appointments....

We got our first look inside Boston’s Hynes Convention Center, which is set to become the largest mass vaccination site in Massachusetts as it ramps up operations and replaces Fenway Park.