Health & Fitness

State Explores New Options To Make COVID Vaccines More Accessible

Gillette Stadium will become a mass vaccination site and maybe other large venues like the Marshfield Fairgrounds will follow.

(Carly Baldwin/Patch)

BOSTON — The COVID vaccines are rolling off the manufacturing belts. The question now becomes how to get them into arms, almost seven million in Massachusetts.

There are plans in place and new ideas every day. On Thursday, Secretary of State Bill Galvin proposed polling sites to Gov. Charlie Baker. “We already relocated many of these polling places to larger premises last year because of COVID so now we have the opportunity to take a larger space and there often times is parking located near these locations, we’ve tested them out, they’re handicapped accessible,” Galvin said.

Gillette Stadium will become a mass vaccination site and maybe other large venues like the Marshfield Fairgrounds. Several years ago, during the Avian flu outbreak, state officials suggested many towns come up with a plan to inoculate their residents and they did.

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