As the field hospital in Lowell closes up shop after a month in service, plans for another mass vaccination site are in the works.
On Monday, Feb. 8, Lowell General Hospital will move its COVID-19 Mass Vaccination Program to the Cross River Center in an effort to increase its efforts to vaccinate eligible, Phase 1 patients.
Hospital officials said they plan to start vaccinating about 400 people a day before increasing that number to 1,000 in the coming weeks.
The site is located 2 miles from the hospital’s main campus, where vaccination clinics have been an ongoing occurrence.
For patients over the age of 75, scheduling can be done through Circle Health-affiliated primary care practices. It is not yet available to the general public.
The site will be the sixth in the state.
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