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Area Churches offer services online. <ref> Virtual Worship South Church streaming Sunday services for safety, Andover Townsman March 19, 2020 </ref> <br>
Area Churches offer services online. <ref> Virtual Worship South Church streaming Sunday services for safety, Andover Townsman March 19, 2020 </ref> <br>


'''MARCH 19 2020'''
MARCH 19 2020<br>
Andover Townsman headline: Coronavirus cripples Andover <br>
Andover Townsman headline: Coronavirus cripples Andover <br>
School closures began during the week of March  
School closures began during the week of March  

Revision as of 18:09, 24 January 2024

MARCH 11 2020 Lawrence General Hospital opened a community covid screening hotline

MARCH 12 2020
The Andover Townsman reports that local stores are running out of sanitizing products. [1]

MARCH 15 2020
Area Churches offer services online. [2]

MARCH 19 2020
Andover Townsman headline: Coronavirus cripples Andover
School closures began during the week of March

JUNE 2020
Andover Elder Services Meals on Wheels Program doubled in size over it's service numbers from a year earlier.[3]

JULY 2020
Pfizer Inc.'s Andover facility played a critical role in the development of the first mRNA vaccines in 2020.
In July 2020, Pfizer's Andover facility began mass manufacturing the RNA required for the mRNA vaccine it co-developed with the German pharmaceutical firm, BioNTech. Sold under the brand name Comirnity, the Pfizer BioNTech Covid-19 vaccine production and trials were sped up and scaled up to meet the urgent demands of a private-public partnership initiated by the US government which enabled special fast-tracked government approval of vaccines under trail. [4]

  1. Local stores run low or are out of sanitizing products, Andover Townsman, March 12, 2020
  2. Virtual Worship South Church streaming Sunday services for safety, Andover Townsman March 19, 2020
  3. Town of Andover Annual Report 2020, page28
  4. Andover's Piece of the Vaccine, The Eagle Tribune, December 20, 2020.