Red Sox Bump Vaccine Site From Fenway | Patch PM

MASSACHUSETTS — It's Thursday, March 4. Here's what you should know this afternoon:

• The Red Sox are stealing a state vaccine home. Baseball will soon return to Fenway, and that means the mass vaccination site there will close.
• The push to help people get vaccinated is getting some local help from Somerville.
• The Boston boyhood home of Malcolm X is getting some historic recognition.

Scroll down for those and other stories Patch has been covering in Massachusetts today.

Wednesday’s Top Story

Peanuts and beer and will soon replace the coronavirus vaccine at Fenway Park.

Gov. Charlie Baker announced Thursday the mass vaccination site will be on the move as baseball season ramps up. The vaccination site is heading to the Hynes Convention Center, which will begin administering shots March 18. Fenway will continue its vaccination efforts until March 27, four days before Opening Day.

Those who are scheduled to receive their second vaccination after March 27 will have their appointment transferred to Hynes, which will eventually administer 5,000 shots per day, according to Baker.

More than 25,000 vaccinations have been administered at Fenway. That number is expected to be doubled before the move.

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Today’s Other Top Stories In Massachusetts

WooSox delay: Major League Baseball is delaying the start of the Triple-A season due to coronavirus, which means the WooSox won't play a home game until mid-May. But the team did score some key licenses on Thursday to serve alcohol and offer entertainment.

Sex abuse investigation: An Essex County grand jury will look into allegations of sex abuse at Peabody Memorial High School beginning in 1999 and continuing after the victim graduated in 2003. The victim has sued the city of Peabody and the teachers involved in federal court. The former student, who is identified as John Doe in court documents, claims he was given drugs and alcohol and sexually abused by Lynette Occhipinti, a former educational assistant at the school, starting when he was a freshman at the school in 1999.

Scammers pay up: A Melrose couple will pay $145,000 for their part in a plot that scammed elderly residents for tech support they didn't need. In a settlement announced Thursday by Attorney General Maura Healey's office, Shalu and Vishal Chawla also agreed to never again run tech support companies. Shalu Chawla owned VTech Software Solution and Techmate, Inc. His wife assisted in both companies' affairs.

Cape Coast Guard comes through: A U.S. Coast Guard crew from Cape Cod helped rescue 31 Canadian fishermen from a vessel that caught fire and sank about 130 miles off the Nova Scotia coast. The 143-foot Atlantic Destiny caught fire Tuesday night and began taking on water in high winds and rough seas, Coast Guard officials said.

They Said It

"The process was complicated and stressful, and it led me to look into what it looked like in Massachusetts."
— Somerville resident Diana Rastegayeva, who is organizing volunteers to help eligible Massachusetts residents secure COVID-19 vaccine appointments.

By The Numbers

1874 — That's when Malcolm X's Boston home was originally built. The house where the civil rights leader once lived was just added to the National Register of Historic Places.

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