CONCORD — Residents age 75 and older will be among the next wave of citizens to be offered the vaccine against COVID-19 beginning at the end of this month.
In addition to health-care workers, residents and staff of long-term care facilities, and first responders, the state will then go to vaccinating about 225,000 estimated residents who are older than 74.
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