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Several hospitals in New Hampshire have come up with a daily strategy to avoid chaos when people try to get leftover vaccination doses at the end of the day.

A little more than 135,000 coronavirus vaccine doses have arrived in Massachusetts, three days earlier than expected as weather conditions across the country had threatened to delay much needed shipments. The Baker Administration originally anticipated they would not arrive until Monday, but doses arrived on Friday afternoon. “As a result, providers will not have to cancel appointments,” Command Center spokesperson…

The federal government blamed the delays on winter weather and staffing shortages. In Framingham, Saturday’s coronavirus clinic was postponed two weeks, before the state announced more than 135,000 doses had arrived three days earlier than expected.

A little more than 135,000 vaccine doses in Massachusetts on Friday, three days earlier than expected, which means the state will not run out of vaccine doses at least for now. But the supply chain concerns caused the City of Framingham to go ahead and call of Saturday’s vaccination clinic, even before that announcement.

Vaccine doses originally thought to be delayed until Monday have arrived in the Bay State.

At least some of the COVID-19 vaccine doses that the state said Thursday would not arrive here until Monday, a little more than 135,000 doses, arrived in Massachusetts on Friday, enough to ensure that providers will not have to cancel vaccination appointments, the state’s COVID-19 Command Center said Friday afternoon. “Governor Baker and the Command Center have been in constant…

More than 135,000 delayed coronavirus vaccine doses arrived, three days earlier than expected. This, one day after the state’s sign-up website crashed just as it opened to those 65 and older.

State Rep. Tami Gouveia said it was great news that 135,000 delayed coronavirus vaccine doses arrived in Massachusetts three days earlier than expected.

Britain’s main doctors’ organization says it is concerned about the U.K.’s decision to give people a second dose of coronavirus vaccine up to 12 weeks after the first, rather than the shorter gap recommended by manufacturers and the World Health Organization

Massachusetts health care workers who received their first dose of a COVID vaccine will soon be getting their second shot, but at least one New England medical experts is pushing for a delay. “We’re likely looking at, at least another 100, maybe another 150,000 people dying between now and the end of February, and that’s awful and we’ve got...

Brown University School of Public Health Dean Dr. Ashish Jha argues that with case numbers rising, and the new COVID variant threatening to worsen the spread, it may be time to consider delaying the second dose of the COVID-19 vaccines, to be able to immunize a larger number of people sooner.