May 5, 2021
Final doses outnumber vaccine starts
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COVID-19 breakthrough cases have continued to rise.
By State House News Service
Providers on Monday reported administering 56,515 doses of the three approved COVID-19 vaccines in Massachusetts -- more than 60 percent of them final doses, the Department of Public Health said Tuesday.
The shots reported Monday included 21,628 first doses of the Moderna or Pfizer vaccines, each of which requires two shots. The other 34,887 shots reported as administered included 33,905 Moderna or Pfizer second doses and 982 doses of the single-shot Johnson & Johnson vaccine.
Since December, Massachusetts has administered 6,313,251 total vaccine doses, and 2,661,078 people here are now fully vaccinated.
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