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At Roxbury vaccination site, few people of color line up for shots
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They traveled from Beacon Hill, West Roxbury, Brookline, and Cambridge. One 78-year-old man, guided by his son as he shuffled across the slushy sidewalk with his walker, said he lived in North Smithfield, R.I., but worked as a certified public accountant in Massachusetts.
State and local officials heralded the opening of a COVID-19 mass vaccination site in Roxbury — the heart of Black life in Boston — as a step toward fixing the gulf in inoculation rates between white residents and their Black and Latino counterparts, who remain starkly under-vaccinated by comparison. But the residents who snagged the first appointments at the Reggie Lewis Track and Athletic Center Tuesday afternoon were overwhelmingly white and from affluent enclaves in Boston and beyond.
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– In Suffolk County, Black and Latino residents face stark disparities in vaccine access
– Pressley urges Baker to emphasize equity in vaccine distribution
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