On February 1st, Senator Sal DiDomenico testified before the Commonwealth’s Health Equity Task Force regarding health disparities that underserved and underrepresented communities disproportionately experience in light of the COVID-19 pandemic.
Senator DiDomenico represents one of the hardest-hit districts in Massachusetts, and throughout this pandemic, his Senate office has centered the Commonwealth’s most vulnerable residents and worked to address the fallout from the COVID-19 crisis.
“COVID-19 has offered us tangible and concrete representation of health inequities that have been in existence in Massachusetts for many years but have now been exponentially worsened due to the public health crisis,” said DiDomenico. “Data has clearly illuminated what we have already known infection rates are highest and most disproportionate in traditionally underserved communities, like those I represent. If we are to comprehensively and holistically solve the health-related inequities
The Baker-Polito Administration announced Wednesday a new $4.7 million initiative to promote COVID-19 vaccine equity in the 20 communities most disproportionately impacted by the pandemic, with one of those communities being Chelsea. •Vaccination Appointments: On Feb. 25, around 50,000 new appointments…