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Choosing COVID vaccination

Vaccines give us the chance to get back to the places and people we love. But the choice to get vaccinated isn’t always easy. Watch to learn why some of our leaders, caregivers and neighbors decided to get a COVID-19 shot.

Why doctors are choosing to vaccinate their kids against COVID: Dr. Simone Wildes

‘I can feel confident that I have done my part to keep them healthy’

How one mom made the decision to vaccinate her kids against COVID

Advice from the family doctors, and lots of evidence of safety and efficacy

Getting vaccinated to protect against COVID while pregnant

What moms and clinicians want you to know about how the shot can protect you and your baby

‘I wanted to get my vaccine to protect the ones around me’

Kids line up at Equity Now & Beyond mobile clinics sponsored by Blue Cross to protect communities and help schools stay open

Why doctors are choosing to vaccinate their kids against COVID: Dr. Stephanie Carreiro

‘I have spent the last 18 months watching COVID wreak havoc’

WATCH: ‘I’m going to get to hug my friends again’

What kids want kids to know about the COVID vaccine

Why doctors are choosing to vaccinate their kids against COVID: Dr. Alysse Wurcel

‘Doing our part to get back to what we love’

Why doctors are choosing to vaccinate their kids against COVID: Dr. Kavita Babu

‘It’s the most incredible relief’

‘We are going block to block’

Vaccine partnership sponsored by Blue Cross brings life-saving shots to hard-hit neighborhoods

‘I don’t believe vaccination should be a political issue’

GOP leader champions safe, effective shots to protect against COVID-19

Listen to Big Daddy: ‘Why not get vaccinated?’

After bout with COVID, Fox football commentator drives home immunization message

‘Oh my gosh, I am sick’

After catching COVID at a bachelor party, a millennial shares a message: ‘Get your vaccine’

‘As someone who has had COVID, I would 100 percent say, get the vaccine’

A Lowell business owner shares his story

‘This is not just a personal choice, this is a family choice’

Why a Vermont dad chose to get vaccinated against COVID-19

‘This is life and death’

How a self-proclaimed ‘exhibit A of vaccine hesitancy’ decided to get the shot

'I want to keep living an active life'

After a COVID hospitalization, an amputee athlete is urging Bay Staters to get vaccinated

WATCH: 'We have to keep fighting'

Rev. Liz Walker works to help communities of color overcome the trauma of the pandemic

Battling a pandemic, with science and empathy

Health care leader Dr. Charles Anderson builds trust along with a vaccination campaign as he cares for one of Massachusetts' most vulnerable communities

VIDEO: 'It felt great'

First responders embrace the opportunity to get vaccinated against COVID-19

Video: What the COVID-19 vaccine means to me

Four frontline providers share their gratitude and hope as they receive the new shots

WATCH: A faith leader’s way forward

Rev. Dr. Gloria White-Hammond champions COVID-19 vaccination, as a pastor and a physician

WATCH: 'Stars in the darkness'

After a year of battling the pandemic, Central Mass. community health center workers play a leading role in the vaccination effort

The vaccine’s a hit at Fenway Park

Bay Staters share their excitement and hope outside a mass vaccination site

‘Absolutely just get the vaccine’

A fierce battle with COVID leads to vaccine advocacy

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