In a previous column, I wrote that the rollout was slow and confusing, and that residents deserved better, which was certainly true at the time. But now, the vaccine campaign has gone from zero to hero.
Just a short few months ago, Massachusetts residents stayed up at all hours to get a coronavirus vaccine appointment, battling against a crashing online registration portal as the state’s vaccination rates languished behind national averages. In a previous column I wrote that the rollout was slow and confusing, and that residents deserved better. That was certainly true at the time. But now, the vaccine campaign has gone from zero to hero. As of Saturday,48% of Massachusetts’ total population is fully vaccinated and about 76% of the adult population has received at least one shot. The Bay State now ranks fourth in the country in terms of percent of fully vaccinated people, and third for the percent of residents with at least one dose, according to a Bloomberg tracker. “We felt we were in a race against time and we needed to get people vaccinated and vaccinated as quickly as we possibly could,” Gov.
