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Legislature calls Baker to second COVID-19 oversight hearing, this time to probe scrapped emergency plans Matt Stout © John Tlumacki/Globe Staff Massachusetts Governor Charlie Baker speaks to the media after he toured the Shawmut Corporation manufacturing facility that makes N-95 masks. Governor Charlie Baker has been called to testify at a second legislative oversight hearing exploring Massachusetts’s COVID-19 rollout, according to state lawmakers, who intend to drill down into his administration’s decision to entrust a handful of private companies with running its seven mass vaccination sites. The March 23 hearing will explore what lawmakers called the rollout’s “technology infrastructure” as well as the public health and emergency response plans the state had spent two decades and millions of dollars creating ahead of the pandemic, legislators said Friday.

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