Massachusetts Expands Coronavirus Vaccination Effort: Patch PM

MASSACHUSETTS —It's Monday, January 25. Here's what Patch has been covering in Massachusetts today.

Massachusetts is opening five new vaccination sites and dozens of smaller sites across the state ahead of next week's move to begin offering the coronavirus vaccine to people over the age of 75.

Also see: Massachusetts Vaccination Effort Lags Behind Other States

With the new sites, the state will have the capacity to administer 242,000 vaccines per week, and 305,000 by mid-February. But the state does not expect to get that many doses from the federal government in coming weeks, Gov. Charlie Baker said at a news conference.

"We can only move as fast as the federal government ships vaccines to the Commonwealth," Baker said.

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