Salem: 2 Mobile Coronavirus Vaccination Opportunities This Week

SALEM, MA — The efforts of the city and local health care providers to bring the coronavirus vaccine to convenient public locations where people are at continues this week with two more mobile pop-up opportunities to get the shot.

A Massachusetts General/Brigham & Women's van will set up on Wednesday at the Salem Food Pantry at Salem State University from 10 a.m. to noon on Loring Avenue.

A Curative van — the company that ran the vaccination clinic at the Danvers DoubleTree Hotel site — will be at the Peabody Essex Museum offering doses from 4 to 7 p.m. on Friday.

This is in addition to the 10 CVS, Walgreens and other health care sites listed here that have daily walk-in vaccination opportunities and appointments.

Salem's most recent report said that 65 percent of residents have received at least one dose of a coronavirus vaccine, which is slightly below the statewide rate of 70.8 percent as of July 3 — among the highest in the nation.

New vaccinations have slowed in recent weeks just as public health officials are becoming increasingly concerned about variants that are considered more easily transmissible among those who have yet to be vaccinated.

Residents who have been fully vaccinated in Massachusetts have until July 22 to register for the first $1 million state VaxMillions lottery to be held on July 26.

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(Scott Souza is a Patch field editor covering Beverly, Danvers, Marblehead, Peabody, Salem and Swampscott. He can be reached at Scott.Souza@Patch.com. Twitter: @Scott_Souza.)