U.S. Falling Short on Vaccine Equity, CDC Report Shows Chelsea Cirruzzo © (JOSEPH PREZIOSO/AFP via Getty Images) A sign in multiple languages lets the public know they can get inoculated here at La Colaborativa in Chelsea, Massachusetts on February 16, 2021. - Chelsea, with a population of close to 40,000 people, is one of the hardest hit cities in the United States by Covid-19 with close to 8,000 infected people and over 200 deaths from the virus. The community is made up of close to 70 percent Latino or Hispanic people and also retains a large undocumented population. East Boston Neighborhood Health Center is working with La Colaborativa to vaccinate any person in the community that wants to be vaccinated and is working to get the message out in multiple languages. Signs are outside the building in Spanish and English. La Colaborativa is all ready an established institution in the community for helping and empowering immigrants in the city. (Photo by Joseph P
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‘It feels like whiplash’: After state mandate, districts work to reopen schools Bianca Vázquez Toness © Jim Davis/Globe Staff Parents and students marched from Lincoln-Sudbury High School on Wednesday to the historic Sudbury town center to try to influence officials to reopen schools.
School systems statewide are scrambling to overhaul their reopening plans and return all students to full-time, in-person instruction in the wake of new mandates from state education officials.
Some districts said they might request waivers from the state in hopes of postponing complying to the aggressive move by Massachusetts Education Commissioner Jeffrey Riley, who scrapped the widely used hybrid schooling option and ordered elementary students back to school full time by April 5 and middle-schoolers by April 28.