State House Roundup: Glimmer at end of COVID tunnel
Matt Murphy
BOSTON - The historic Hoosac Tunnel, running through the mountains between North Adams and Florida, is four-and-three-quarters miles long. The Big Dig's Tip O'Neill Tunnel goes for a mile and a half under downtown Boston.
And the tunnel we unknowingly descended into sometime last winter when the novel coronavirus first arrived in Massachusetts? That one's measured not in miles but in months, and we still have a ways to go before coming out the other side, or even before knowing exactly how much of the trek remains.
But somewhere, off in the distance, is a faint glimmer, in the form of vaccines that will be complicated to distribute, require a bolstering of public trust and still have to work their way through the rest of the federal approval process.