Charlie Baker Plans to Ramp Up Vaccines for Hardest-Hit Cities. Lawmakers are Asking What Took So Long

“This afternoon’s announcement by the Baker-Polito Administration shows a recognition that targeted outreach efforts are desperately needed to speed vaccination in the communities hardest hit by COVID – something we welcome as ‘better late than never,'” Democratic senators Sonia Chang-Díaz and Becca Rausch and representatives Liz Miranda and Mindy Domb said in a statement. “But the announcement is exasperatingly short on specifics.”