Summer tourist destinations rush to get full-time residents vaccinated
and last updated 2021-03-08 14:05:10-05
The peace and the quiet that encompasses Block Island in the middle of the winter are what keeps lifelong resident Sue Millikin on this 7-mile stretch of land off the New England coast.
One of a small handful of cab drivers here, the 63-year-old resident spends her days crisscrossing the island helping people get to where they need to go. Tourists flock to Block Island in the summer months, but during the winter, only about 1,000 full-time residents remain here.
But while this summer safe haven is seemingly cut off from the world, it is not cut off from COVID-19.