Massachusetts should still receive 100,000 doses of the single-shot Johnson & Johnson vaccine after reported manufacturing issues, but the outlook in following weeks is still under review, Baker administration officials said Thursday.
Massachusetts is planning to launch a new strategy to bring COVID-19 vaccine shots to some of the state's hardest hit areas.
Beginning next week and ramping up over time, mobile and pop-up clinics will take to the streets of Chelsea, Revere, Boston, Fall River and New Bedford.
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Vaccine doses will be picked up by mobile vaccination teams at the Hynes Convention Center -- one of the state's mass vaccination sites -- and then distributed and administered in the communities.
Most of the mobile units and pop-up clinics will be set up in city parks, parking lots, and other community locations identified by the municipalities as easy to access for community members.
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The effort is made part in possible by a partnership with the Federal Emergency Management Agency, which is bringing in an additional 6,000 daily vaccine doses to the Hynes for an eight-week period.
The doses supplied to the mobile and pop-up clinics will come from the FEMA vaccines.
