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

December 15, 2020
1 min read

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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