Chris Van Buskirk
State House News Service
The vaccination distribution phase the state finds itself in as summer kicks off is almost like managing a political campaign, the state s top health official said Monday. I think of this phase of vaccine distribution as being hyper-focused, hyper local, a ground game, Health and Human Services Secretary Marylou Sudders said at a virtual forum. Think of it almost as like a political campaign but instead of political canvassing, we re vaccine canvassing.
Case numbers for COVID-19 are at a low not seen since the summer of 2020, the percentage of Massachusetts residents fully vaccinated is steadily climbing, and the state has officially rescinded nearly all of the restrictions put in place to help mitigate the pandemic.