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Antonio Loffa of Natick gets his COVID-19 vaccine at a mass vaccination site at the Natick Mall on Wednesday, Feb. 24, 2021, in Natick, Mass. (Matt Stone/The Boston Herald via AP, Pool)

What to know about the COVID-19 vaccination effort in Mass. this week

Khymani James at a morning press-conference on Saturday. He resigned from the Boston School Committee and BSAC, along with other student leaders who recently resigned from BSAC. They spoke out regarding the reasons for their resignation and to shine a light on the racism and manipulation they experienced, and call for change.

Students demand changes on Boston Student Advisory Council amid allegations against leadership

A driver was stopped in N.H. for allegedly traveling over 140 miles per hour.

Mass. man arrested after allegedly driving 142 mph in N.H.

FILE -- Two people take a COVID-19 test at Duke University in Durham, N.C., Feb. 3, 2021. The study of 1,407 people who tested positive for coronavirus found more than 30 symptoms, including anxiety, low back pain, fatigue, insomnia, gastrointestinal problems and rapid heart rate. (Pete Kiehart/The New York Times)

Many ‘long COVID’ patients had no symptoms from their initial infection March 8, 2021 | 8:59 PM

Aaron Hodges, who started the Franklin County Militia in 2020, near his home in Glade Hill, Va., Feb. 28, 2021. What appeared to be racial progress in rural Virginia turned into bitter conflict over a Confederate statue, the election and the Capitol riot. Now, people there foresee “a very dangerous time.” (Alyssa Schukar/The New York Times)

The officers danced at a Black Lives Matter rally. Then they stormed the Capitol. March 8, 2021 | 7:48 PM

FILE -- The biotech firm Emergent BioSolutions’ headquarters in Gaithersburg, Md.

Emergent BioSolutions

Biden cancels visit to vaccine maker after Times report on its tactics March 8, 2021 | 7:25 PM

Amherst, MA - 4/30/20 - A statue of the minuteman, the mascot of University of Massachusetts Amherst stands in front of the Old Chapel on April 30, 2020.

(Blake Nissen/ For The Boston Globe)

Nearly 200 UMass Amherst students could face suspension after maskless party March 8, 2021 | 6:26 PM

Biden's big relief package a bet gov't can help cure America March 8, 2021 | 5:53 PM

Dorchester, MA -- 3/3/21 -- A nurse administers a COVID-19 test at DotHouse to a girl who was getting tested so that she could return to school. None of the parties wished to be identified by name. (Jessica Rinaldi/Globe Staff)

Mass. reports 892 new COVID-19 cases, 18 new deaths March 8, 2021 | 5:09 PM

BOSTON, MA - 2/15/2021 The Green LineÕs B line cruises past the Pleasant Street station after making a stop on Monday afternoon. branch MBTA plans to consolidate stops on a stretch of the Green Line B section to speed the trains through what is now too many stops in too little space. Erin Clark/Globe Staff

Federal relief funds are helping the MBTA. But only for so long. March 8, 2021 | 4:59 PM

Pharmacist Andrea Glennon prepares doses of the Johnson and Johnson vaccine at the Tufts Medical Center COVID-19 Vaccination Clinic in Boston on March 4, 2021.

Mass. reports 715,136 people have been fully vaccinated against COVID-19 March 8, 2021 | 4:21 PM

Oct. 6, 2016 - Author Cornel West at the WEB DuBois medal ceremony in Cambridge, Mass. Photo Credit: Justin Saglio for the Boston Globe. Section: Arts. Slug: 07namesGrierNorman.

Cornel West leaving Harvard teaching post March 8, 2021 | 4:09 PM

COVID-19 claims 15 people in life of one Milwaukee woman March 8, 2021 | 2:50 PM

Police pursue hundreds of tips after violent Boulder, Colorado, party March 8, 2021 | 2:24 PM

Sen. Joe Manchin, D-W.Va., at the Capitol in Washington.

Democrats are debating filibuster changes – what do you think they should do? March 8, 2021 | 1:42 PM

Driver dies in toll plaza crash March 8, 2021 | 1:18 PM

Giovanni Taboh

Natick community mourns the loss of 17-year-old killed in Canton crash March 8, 2021 | 12:54 PM

Pharmacist Andrea Glennon prepares doses of the Johnson and Johnson vaccine at the Tufts Medical Center COVID-19 Vaccination Clinic in Boston on March 4, 2021.

Fully-vaccinated people can gather without masks, CDC says, but should cover face in public March 8, 2021 | 11:23 AM

FILE - In this March 4, 2018, file photo, then-MacKenzie Bezos arrives at the Vanity Fair Oscar Party in Beverly Hills, Calif. Scott, philanthropist, author and former wife of Amazon founder Jeff Bezos, has married a Seattle science teacher. Dan Jewett wrote in a letter to the website of the nonprofit organization the Giving Pledge, on Saturday, March 6, 2021, that he was grateful to be able to marry such a generous person and was ready to help her give away her wealth to help others. (Photo by Evan Agostini/Invision/AP, File)

MacKenzie Scott marries Seattle teacher after Jeff Bezos divorce March 8, 2021 | 11:16 AM

Oprah on CBS This Morning

Meghan and Harry

Watch: Oprah shares more clips from her interview with Meghan and Harry March 8, 2021 | 10:45 AM

Intersection of Auburn and Summer Streets in Bridgewater

Police investigate hit-and-run that killed 34-year-old man in Bridgewater March 8, 2021 | 10:19 AM

Mary Beth Baca, a registered nurse of Douglas, Mass., and other nurses gather outside Saint Vincent Hospital in Worcester, Mass., as a strike begins Monday, March 8, 2021.

Hundreds of nurses have walked off the job in Worcester March 8, 2021 | 9:26 AM

Five-and-a-half year-old Maddie Higgins left her bike along the path as she climbed a tree in the Public Garden last week. Temperatures in Boston are expected to rise into the 60s by Thursday.

Record-breaking warmth possible in the upcoming week March 8, 2021 | 9:10 AM

Nurse Betsy Zorilla prepares to administer a COVID-19 vaccination at the Doubletree Hotel, Friday, Feb. 5, 2021, in Danvers, Mass.

VACCINE DISTRIBUTION

Residents turned away from Danvers mass vaccination site because of apparent glitch March 7, 2021 | 11:42 PM

Male body pulled from Merrimack River March 7, 2021 | 9:36 PM

Mark Lennihan

One-shot vaccine

Johnson & Johnson vaccines coming to Cape Cod March 7, 2021 | 6:49 PM

President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris speak at the White House in Washington after the Senate voted to pass a $1.9 trillion relief package, March 6, 2021.

What’s in the stimulus bill? A guide to where the $1.9 trillion is going March 7, 2021 | 6:40 PM

Andrew Cuomo, governor of New York.

Top state leader says ‘Cuomo must resign.’ Governor says ‘no way.’ March 7, 2021 | 6:24 PM

Randolph, MA - 1/5/2021: EMT Chris Martin of Cataldo Ambulance Service uses a nasal swab to collect a specimen at a COVID-19 testing site outside the Randolph Intergenerational Community Center in Randolph, MA on January 05, 2021. The site run by the town of Randolph, Cataldo Ambulance Service and many volunteers is part of the Massachusetts Stop the Spread program. On Monday (Jan. 4) the site performed 992 tests at the location. (The Stop the Spread program is intended to provide low barrier, free, and easy to access testing to all Massachusetts residents. Open to all Massachusetts residents. Testing is not restricted to residents of the cities where sites are located.) (Craig F. Walker/Globe Staff) coronavirus Covid-19

Mass. reports 1,281 new COVID-19 cases, 41 new deaths March 7, 2021 | 5:33 PM

Snow Guns at Nashoba Valley Ski Area.

Skier injured after colliding with building at Nashoba Valley Ski Area March 7, 2021 | 5:19 PM

Registered Nurses and supporters stand in a picket line and wave to cars as they drive by outside St. Vincent Hospital in Worcester, Massachusetts on February 24, 2021. - 800 Nurses voted to go on strike starting March 8 after giving the hospital a ten day notice. During the pandemic the nurses have cited more than 500 reports of safety issues for both themselves and patients and had more than 100 co-workers leave. Nurses are asking for increased staffing levels and a new contract. (Photo by Joseph Prezioso / AFP) (Photo by JOSEPH PREZIOSO/AFP via Getty Images)

800 nurses at Worcester's St. Vincent Hospital preparing to strike March 7, 2021 | 4:44 PM

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Central Falls, RI 3/1/21 Dr. Beata Nelken (cq) draws a dose of the Moderna COVID-19 Vaccine. However, on further questioning of the woman who was to receive it, it was determined that she came one day too soon for her second shot. The drawn dose was returned to the refrigerated unit for later use. The city of Central Falls has become a hot spot for the coronavirus in Rhode Island. Nelken, the president and CEO of the 1-year-old Jenks Park Pediatrics (cq) practice, has stepped up by providing testing and vaccinations for the community. (Pat Greenhouse/Globe Staff) Reporter: Ed Fitzpatrick

Mass. reports 703,676 people have been fully vaccinated against COVID-19 March 7, 2021 | 4:14 PM

Rhode Island Democratic Gov. Dan McKee, left, is ceremonially sworn in by R.I. Secretary of State Nellie Gorbea, right, as his wife Susan McKee, center, holds the family Bible during an inauguration ceremony, Sunday, March 7, 2021, in front of the Statehouse, in Providence, R.I.

New Rhode Island Gov. McKee vows to maintain fight against virus March 7, 2021 | 1:53 PM