Mass. scrapped a vaccine blueprint 20 years in the making
Updated March 11, 2021, 2:30 a.m.
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When public services are privatized, hardest-hit communities suffer
The Commonwealth of Massachusetts abandoned its long-developed mass vaccination plan and opted instead for a privatized solution (â20 years of vaccination planning discarded,â Page A1, March 5). Taxpayers funded two decades of mass vaccine readiness, and now millions of our dollars are bypassing that infrastructure and flowing into private corporate coffers. What are those corporations doing with that money? Surely not enough is being done to ensure that these funds equitably reach communities who are hardest hit by the virus â Black and Latinx communities â who have the lowest vaccination rates in Boston.