Jordan Frias has reported on the response to COVID-19 through our Pandemic Democracy Project for nearly a year. Published together below, his three latest dispatches from the field show the movements of public health workers and officials on the ground, as they continue testing for coronavirus and attempt to get as many vaccines into biceps as possible.
SHELTER SHOCK
Despite effective short-term measures, long-term homelessness persists in Mass
INOCULATION HUB
Greater Boston’s murky world of open-source COVID-19 vaccine research
MASS MUNICIPALITIES BRAVE ZOOM LEARNING CURVE IN PANDEMIC TIMES
“Our goal was to really make the meetings and the access to the public as similar as possible to the way it’s been.”
POLITICALLY CONNECTED CONSULTANTS WIN LARGE COVID SCHOOL CONTRACTS IN MASS
Like the state government’s contract for no-bid saliva tests, the contract with McKinsey was issued without going through the standard bidding process