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Lawmakers Confront Baker On Vaccine Rollout
The committee's co-chair thought the gravity of the issues residents have faced in securing a vaccine had not gotten through to Baker.

The committee's co-chair thought the gravity of the issues residents have faced in securing a vaccine had not gotten through to Baker.

The ER doctor from the South End is running to make sure the city's recovery from the pandemic is one "rooted in equity and opportunity."
Lawmakers on both sides of the aisle have questions after the state's vaccination appointment website crashed Thursday.
Starting next week, the city will start releasing Boston-specific vaccination data broken down by neighborhoods, race, and ethnicity.
Trusted caregivers who bring someone 75 or older to a site will be able to be inoculated, regardless of eligibility status.
Baker's administration and key lawmakers have not seen eye-to-eye on many of the finer details of the legislation.
Thousands of hours are spent manually inputting data, Suffolk District Attorney Rachael Rollins said Friday.
The single-shot vaccine was developed with help from Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center.
Instead of laying out a detailed policy agenda, Baker's "State of the Commonwealth" revolved almost entirely around the COVID-19 response.
The 3.5 percent increase amounts to an additional $112,535, on average, for all 351 municipalities.
Massachusetts would need more than 1 million doses of COVID-19 vaccine to fully inoculate everybody in the first phase of the plan.
It's a whole lot more than just the $600 stimulus checks everyone's getting.
No schools will be newly named underperforming in the upcoming school year, superintendents were told Tuesday.
Despite strong pushback, the MBTA is barreling ahead with significant service reductions early next year.
The Republican governor said he would not sign a bill that bans police from using facial recognition systems to solve crimes.
MBTA General Manager Steve Poftak announced Monday he would suggest deferring some critical decisions on the service cuts until February.
The device is connected to the ignition and prevents the vehicle from starting if it detects alcohol when an individual blows into a tube.
While vaccines could get here within a couple weeks, it will be months before members of the general public have access to immunizations.
The number of students recorded as exiting their districts for home-schooling this year is about nine times the 802 logged last year.
As people get tested amid the COVID-19 surge and ahead of Thanksgiving, some lines are seeing waits of up to five hours.