As vaccines turn pandemic’s tide, US and Europe diverge on path forward

While the United States appears to be trying to close the curtain on the pandemic, across the ocean, in Britain and the European Union, it is quite a different story. Despite plunging infection levels and a surging vaccine program, parts of Europe are maintaining limits on gatherings, re-imposing curbs on travel and weighing local lockdowns.

Around the region:

• A partnership between Massachusetts and Market Basket is offering free, walk-up vaccination clinics in the parking lots of stores in Chelsea, Fall River, Lawrence, Lynn, and Revere on Thursday, Friday, and Saturday this week and next. The clinics are run by CIC Health.