Nearly 40 supermarkets across Massachusetts are working with the state to deliver COVID-19 vaccine to their pharmacies from next week.
Wegmans is one of the many supermarkets participating in the new vaccine effort. The supermarket chain will also work with officials in New York and Pennsylvania to administer vaccines.
According to the Baker government, the state has also partnered with grocery stores Big Y, Price Chopper, Stop & Shop and Hannaford to provide approximately vaccination sites from Monday.
The rise of vaccination sites comes after the discovery of nearly 2,000 spoiled doses of the coronavirus vaccine at Jamaica Plain VA Medical Center in Boston after the refrigerator in which it was stored was accidentally pulled out.
People in Boston have responded to the loss of nearly 2,000 COVID-19 vaccines at the VA Medical Center in Jamaica Plain.
This comes as more and more states say they no longer have vaccines. Many also claim that they did not have adequate doses to begin with.
Anna Nagurney, a professor of business management at UMass Amherst, who is an expert in supply chains, calls the loss of 1,900 vaccine doses at the VA institution ‘unforgivable’.
The administration of Biden sets a new goal for the distribution of vaccines, as states experience shortages and new strains of the COVID-19 virus emerge.
“You can not make that happen,” Nagurney said. “We need better safety, we need better quality control, it can not be a matter of someone disconnecting the refrigerators, it’s absolutely ridiculous.”
The supplement dose is on the way and according to the VA officials, the vaccination effort of the Jamaica Plain VA Medical Center may not be interrupted.