Lives on hold, the oldest baby boomers wait — impatiently — for COVID-19 vaccines
They’re a generation that danced to the Beatles, cheered for Carl Yastrzemski, and spent decades chasing their dreams and raising their families in Massachusetts.

Now in or approaching retirement, eager to travel, meet friends for a drink, and reconnect with their grandchildren, the state’s oldest baby boomers — a graying army ages 65 to 74 — have a new quest: getting the coronavirus vaccine.

And they’re growing impatient. 

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