Inter-agency COVID-19

Local Boards of Health Webinar

January 15, 2021

Inter-agency Staff on the Webinar

• Jana Ferguson, Assistant Commissioner, DPH

• Ron O’Connor, Office of Local and Regional Health

• Dr. Catherine Brown, Bureau of Infectious Disease and Laboratory Sciences

• Donna Quinn and Mary Clark, Office of Preparedness and Emergency Management

• Michael Flanagan, Mary Dozois and Adam Kinney, Department of Labor Standards

• Anne Gilligan, Department of Elementary and Secondary Education

• Cheryl Sbarra, Massachusetts Association of Health Boards

• Chief Edward Dunne, Massachusetts Chiefs of Police Association

• Jeff Farnsworth, Executive Office of Public Safety and Security

MEDIA AND RECORDING ADVISORY

• This webinar is intended for local boards of health. Any media who may have joined should disconnect.

• Recording is not consented to and not permitted.

LEGAL ISSUES ON WEBINARS

• DPH contracts with the Massachusetts Association of Health Boards (MAHB) to provide answers and guidance to health departments and boards of health on a wide range of public health issues including COVID-19.

• MAHB produces documents and provides information on these webinars for educational purposes only and are not to be construed as legal advice.

• For legal advice, please contact your city or town attorney.

QUESTIONS & ANSWERS PROCESS

Please use the webinar Q&A functionfor questions or comments.

If you are having technical issues, email Erica Piedade, erica.m.piedade@mass.gov

Department of

Public Health

(DPH)

UPDATE• Updates to Travel Order Web

Pages

• Vaccine Clinics Update

-Jana Ferguson

Updates to Travel Order Web Pages

Travel order pages are being updated to integrate information regarding• Persons Who Tested Positive within 90 Days of Arrival to Massachusetts and

Successfully Completed Isolation• Quarantine timelines to align with DPH quarantine

• Requirements to comply with the Travel Order after receiving the COVID-19 vaccine

Updates to the following pages:• https://www.mass.gov/guidance/guidance-for-travelers-arriving-in-the-

commonwealth-of-massachusetts• https://www.mass.gov/info-details/covid-19-travel-order

Vaccine Clinics UpdateJana Ferguson

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Mass Vaccination Sites

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• MA is launching mass vaccination sites.

• Vaccination locations and appropriate forms of identification

are posted

• Gillette appointments went live this morning and appointments

are available https://www.cic-health.com/vaccines-location

COVID-19 Vaccination LocationsInteractive map that shows COVID-19 vaccine locations available in Massachusetts for currently eligible recipients (Accessed on 1/15/2021)

https://www.mass.gov/info-details/covid-19-vaccine-locations-for-individuals-currently-eligible-to-be-vaccinated#find-a-location-to-get-vaccinated-if-eligible-

MA Medical Society support - COVID-19 vaccine for independent medical practices

• One of the approaches for Phase One health care workers eligible for vaccine

• A hospital serving each region of the state identified to act as a “depot” to assist with distribution

• For practices that are unable, due to their size and capacity, to receive larger, direct allocations of vaccine, a depot will redistribute vaccine and ancillary materials for office-based vaccination or will provide direct vaccination to health care workers.

• To enroll in the office-based vaccination, providers must sign up for the MIIS, the MCVP, and possess a valid MA Controlled Substance Registration. There is an MMS Intake Form being sent to providers.

• The MA Medical Society MS will contact qualifying practices to discuss next steps including scheduling times for vaccine pick up at the local depot.

• If providers are not planning to administer the vaccine to staff, MMS will identify the corresponding depot/sites for vaccination, when available.

• For more information and questions, please contact the MMS via email at: PPRC@mms.org

Next Steps for continued vaccine clinics

• Operations to continue through Phase 3

• Building the website and new map with pins for clinic information and how to register for appointments

• Will receive a response if you have indicated by email that you would like to continue through Phase 3 with a link to the Google doc to update clinic site information

• If you haven’t been running a clinic in your municipality, you have to have the enrollment in MCVP to receive vaccine.

Ordering more vaccine

• Clinics can indicate that more vaccine is needed via the ‘weekly

survey’ that will go out on Mondays. Orders need to be in by

noon on Wednesday.

• Each link for ordering is unique – you can’t use someone else’s

link. The links will be sent to the contact on the MCVP.

• Email vaccine management unit at DPH-Vaccine-

Management@MassMail.State.MA.US for a link if you don’t

receive it.

Other Updates

Next WebinarTuesday, January 19 at 3:00 p.m.

Please continue to send questions to

Mike Coughlin at michael.j.coughlin@mass.gov.

Thank You!

We welcome your feedback on the webinar format and suggestions for future topics.