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Hardest hit by COVID, vaccine inequity frustrates Massachusetts' diverse, lower-income cities


COVID vaccine inequity frustrates Massachusetts diverse, lower-income cities hardest hit by virus
Hadley Barndollar, USA TODAY NETWORK
How COVID-19 is disproportionately affecting people of color
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For New England’s only majority Black city, the closest COVID mass vaccination site is 23 miles away a one-hour round-trip drive with no public transportation. 
Brockton has seen more than 11,000 confirmed cases of the coronavirus since last March and 372 related deaths. The city is frequently among the top 10 communities in Massachusetts with the highest percentage of positive cases. 
And yet, when the state announced in January the opening of more than 100 vaccination sites for those age 75 and older, none were located in Brockton. A marker for Brockton High School on the state s vaccine locator map was for a clinic to vaccinate first responders that has since closed to make way for when city students return  ....

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