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Homebound seniors and disabled residents say they feel overlooked in COVID-19 vaccine rollout
It’s hard enough getting a wheelchair through the snow, disability advocates say. Or navigating the state’s vaccine locator website, which has not meshed well with software that reads computer screens for the blind.
But older and disabled residents who can’t easily travel to one of the state’s mass vaccination sites, let alone to a local pharmacy, say state vaccination plans have forgotten about them.
No one knows the exact number of homebound adults who are eligible for shots, but among the state’s 430,000 people 75 and older, the number is probably substantial.
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