For weeks now, Mary McDarby has lived in vaccine limbo.
Her husband qualified for the coronavirus vaccine more than two months ago. Because he has later-stage emphysema, though, his lungs cannot tolerate cold air. Even the short distance between the parking lot and the door of a vaccine clinic could pose a threat.
The other option, bringing the vaccine to him, also has proved impossible. For McDarby, the silence from officials has left her feeling abandoned.
âI thought, thereâs gotta be a lot of disabled people in our situation,â she said. âBut, I canât find any information about it.â
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âThere are a lot of people who canât get to Fenway or Gilletteâ: Some residents feel overlooked in vaccine rollout
Thousands who canât easily leave home struggle to get their shots
By Kay Lazar Globe Staff,Updated February 14, 2021, 4:33 p.m.
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If anyone has experience overcoming obstacles
, itâs John Chappell. The 77-year-old Hanover resident, who is a paraplegic, is a former deputy commissioner of a state agency designed to help disabled people.
Yet Chappell, who is now president of an advocacy group called
the Disability Policy Consortium, is struggling to get a COVID-19 vaccine because he is bedbound and canât find a way to get the shot at home.
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