Massachusetts vaccine rollout has gone from political nightmare to point of pride for Governor Charlie Baker

As the state maintains its spot near the top of national rankings for percentage of population vaccinated, critics who were at Governor Baker’s throat earlier this year have changed their tune or quieted altogether.  Image via the Boston Globe

— News covered by Quincy Quarry News with commentary added.

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Massachusetts vaccine rollout has gone from a political nightmare to a point of pride for Governor Charlie Baker.

In the wake of fits and stumbles when mass vaccination efforts commenced in Massachusetts, Massachusetts is now leading the way for more populated and at least somewhat larger states to see its residents vaccinated.

While some vaccination plans did not work out as planned, many more eventually worked.

As such, one can only properly cut some slack for Governor Baker for his accomplishing what has never been done before.

“Thanks, Charlie …  You’re doing a hell of a job.”
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So well, in fact, that Democratic President Joe Biden has given some serious props to Republican Governor Charlie Baker for seeing vaccinations happen in Massachusetts.

Regardless, at least some carping continues as regards racial inequities in vaccination rate statistics even if unfortunately disparities across racial groups is both a common problem across the country for a variety of reasons, including that some vaccination hesitancy among certain demographic groups has not helped. 

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IIn fairness, the Quarry must thus point out that for the most part Massachusetts media and especially the Commonwealth’s otherwise Democratic Ruling Class carping are fueled by their own biases while Governor Baker kept doing all that he could to roll out vaccination plans that would see people vaccinated as quickly as might be realistically possible.

That and is continuing to rethink and revise the Commonwealth’s vaccination efforts so as to endeavor to do better by all demographic groups.

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After all, at the end of the day, Governor Baker is nothing if not a wonk who both monitors the data and then reacts to the same so as pursue best practices or at least work to improve what all is working.

Source: For Baker, the Mass. vaccine rollout has gone from a political nightmare to a point of pride. Still, racial inequities continue

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