When can I get my COVID-19 Vaccine?

Vaccination Location:

V-Care Pharmacy of Chestnut Hill | 1244 Boylston Street Chestnut Hill, MA 02467

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Vaccine distribution in Massachusetts will occur in a phased approach. The timeline reflects several priorities: protecting our most vulnerable, maintaining health care system capacity, and addressing inequities in health care access and COVID-19 burden. 

Fill out the form below and be automatically notified when the COVID-19 Vaccine will be available to you based on the phase group you belong to.

Phase 1

Listed in order of priority:

• Clinical and non-clinical health care workers doing direct and COVID-facing care, including:
  • COVID-19 testers, staff of test sites, urgent care centers, other clinics,school nurses, and public health nurses performing COVID-19 testing;
  • COVID-19 vaccinators and support staff for a COVID vaccination clinic including pharmacists, pharmacy interns, and pharmacy technicians, school nurses, and public health nurses supporting COVID-19 vaccination;
  • Medical Reserve Corps who are called up to vaccinate or other COVID facing direct care work;
  • COVID facing Hospice/palliative care professionals;
  • COVID facing laboratorians;
  • COVID facing imaging professions;
  • Emergent employees (manufacturing COVID vaccine)
  • Sexual assault nurse examiners (SANE)
  • Primary care providers
  • Skilled nursing facility rapid response teams
  • Visiting and contract nurses
• Long term care facilities, rest homes and assisted living facilities
• Emergency medical services, police, and fire , including:
  • All interfacility transport workers, MedFlight staff, college/university campus police, 911 Dispatch employees
  • Federal law enforcement (including FBI, DEA, Coast Guard, federal court officers, U.S. Marshals Service, ATF, Federal Reserve Police, Homeland Security investigators)
  • Court officers
  • Harbormasters/Assistant Harbormasters
  • Massport police
  • ABCC Inspectors
• Congregate care settings, including:
  • Corrections and shelters (residents/inmates, staff, and volunteers)
  • Patients and staff of SUD treatment programs (if program is residential)
  • Patients and staff of Section 35 treatment programs
  • Adults with autism, intellectual disabilities, and severe behavioral challenges in residential programs
• Home-based health care workers including:
  • PT/OT/SLP therapists who work with medically complex home students
  • Personal Care Attendants (PCAs)
  • Home Health, hospice, and home care agency staff performing visits in the home
  • Independent Nurses and Continuous Skilled Nursing staff performing visits in the home
  • Aging Service agency staff performing regular visits in the home
    State Agency staff performing direct care in the home, including DCF Emergency Response Workers, DMH case managers and DDS care coordinators
  • Mental and behavioral health providers providing in home treatment (e.g., ACCS integrated team, PACT, CBHI, ABA, ESP)
  • Adult Foster Care and Group Adult Foster Care workers performing work in the home
  • Independent Therapists (physical therapists, occupational therapists, Speech & Language therapists) performing work in the home
  • Home-Based Respite and Individual/Family Support staff (DDS and DDS Self Directed)
• Health care workers doing non-COVID-facing care, including:
  • Dentists/dental students, and dental hygienists (unless routinely working with COVID-19 positive or suspected patients such as Oral Surgeons covering the ER, in which case should be considered COVID-facing);
  • Medical and nursing students (unless routinely working with COVID-19 positive or suspected patients, in which case should be considered COVID-facing);
  • Inpatient and outpatient physical therapists (unless routinely working with COVID-19 positive or suspect patients, in which case should be considered COVID-facing);
  • Interpreters who work in hospitals (unless routinely working with COVID-19 positive or suspected patients, in which case should be considered COVID-facing);
  • Behavioral health clinicians not already covered in congregate care or direct care;
  • Non-COVID facing Laboratorians;
  • Blood donation workers;
  • Organ donation procurement worker;
  • Hospice/palliative care professionals;
  • Non-COVID facing Imaging Professionals;
  • Dialysis center workers and patients;
  • Audiologists and speech and language pathologists (unless routinely working with COVID-19 positive or suspected patients, in which case should be considered COVID-facing);
  • Podiatrists and pedorthists (unless routinely working with COVID-19 positive or suspected patients, in which case should be considered COVID-facing);
  • Program of All-inclusive Care for the Elderly (PACE) staff;
  • SUD treatment program staff (if program is non-residential);
  • Asthma and allergy specialists;
  • Diagnostic sleep testing center staff;
  • Chiropractors
  • School nurses (other than those working as vaccinators/testers)
  • Members of the clergy (if working in patient-facing roles)
  • Acupuncturists

Phase 2

 Listed in order or priority:

• Individuals age 75+
• Individuals age 65+, individuals with 2+ comorbidities (only those conditions listed as at increased risk for severe illness)
• Other workers, including:
  • Early education, K-12, transit, grocery, utility, food and agriculture, restaurant and cafe workers;
  • Employees across the food, beverages, agriculture, consumer goods, retail, and foodservice sectors;
  • Meatpackers;
  • Sanitation, public works and public health workers;
  • Vaccine development workers;
  • Food pantry workers and volunteers;
  • Transit/transportation: Uber/Lyft/ride share services/pharmacy delivery drivers, workers in the passenger ground transportation industry (e.g. paratransit for people with Disabilities, food delivery, non-urgent medical transport), Massport workers other than police;
  • Convenience store workers (under grocery workers);
  • Water and wastewater utility staff
  • Court system workers (judges, prosecutors, defense attorney, clerks), other than court officers who are listed under first responders
  • Medical supply chain workers
  • Funeral directors and funeral workers
  • Shipping port and terminal workers
• Individuals with one co-morbid condition

Phase 3

Listed in order of priority:

• The vaccine is expected to be available to the general public, including:
  • Higher education workers, including administrators, teaching and non-teaching staff;
  • Bottled beverage industry workers;
  • Veterinarians