Mass Vaccination Website To Open At Danvers DoubleTree Hotel

DANVERS, MA — A mass vaccination web-site at the DoubleTree Hilton Resort in Danvers will open Feb. 3. The vaccination internet site will be in the ballroom, which has a different entrance and its individual parking space, claimed Kevin Varr, the hotel’s standard supervisor, in an interview with Patch Monday. The hotel will be in a position to work at its ordinary capacity, even though the vaccination web page is set up.

“The beauty of our ballroom is we can very a great deal cut off the relaxation of the hotel and have no effects from the ballroom spot, all over again due to the fact it has its very own entrances and exits, and parking on that facet of the making is commonly dedicated for the ballroom in any case,” Varr explained. “So we will not anticipate any unfavorable impacts or any impacts at all for our friends keeping at the hotel.”

In addition to having its very own entrance and parking, the ballroom is inside of, this means vaccinators will not have to fret about temperature or climate like they may well at an outdoor or semi-outdoor web site.

There are now five prepared mass vaccination web pages in Massachusetts: Fenway Park, Gillette Stadium, the DoubleTree Hilton Resort, the Eastfield Mall in Springfield, and the Reggie Lewis Center. Gov. Charlie Baker announced the opening of the last three at a news meeting Monday afternoon.

Varr stated that representatives from Danvers and Middleton—including the chiefs of law enforcement and hearth, and heads of the Division of Health—examined the hotel home and said that parking and website traffic manage would be taken care of by the towns.

Varr explained the resort is excited to start off functioning as a vaccination web-site.

“Our market was a single of the kinds that was greatly impacted by COVID-19 and I believe we are extremely delighted to be aspect of this course of action, just acquiring been so afflicted by this pandemic,” he stated.