Skewed Data Confuses Vaccination Rates In Some Western Mass. Hilltowns

Two small towns in western Massachusetts are ranked among the lowest COVID-19 vaccination rates in the state. But some officials blame a glitch in the data collection.

Early on, the town of Buckland — with a population under 2,000 — had to work very hard to get its residents vaccinated.

“We don’t have a sports center. We don’t have a big mall,” said Marty Ferguson, who chairs Buckland’s Board of Health. “We had no mass vaccination site and we had people clamoring for vaccine.”

So Buckland collaborated with other Franklin county towns and held pop-up clinics at the regional high school and senior centers.

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