FROM MASS TESTING TO MASS INOCULATION: A COVID RESPONSE IN THREE SCENES
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.
NON-ENGLISH SPEAKING RESIDENTS STRUGGLE TO GET VACCINATION APPOINTMENTS
“If I haven’t been able to get it for myself, what will this mean for them?”
DISPATCH FROM THE DISASTROUS DOC HEARING ON ITS SNAIL MAIL OVERHAUL
Department in denial that officers smuggle in drugs. Prisoner advocates cry foul.
ARTIFICIAL TURF DEBATE INTENSIFIES, FOR SOMERVILLE LOCALS AND ADVOCATES
A park on Somerville Avenue becomes the subject of a heated argument.
LOSING LOCAL NEWS: INSIDE THE WORLD OF ONE SOMERVILLE REPORTER
“I am acutely aware that it is absolutely impossible for me to do justice to what the city deserves in terms of news.”
SHELTER SHOCK
Despite effective short-term measures, long-term homelessness persists in Mass
“WE’RE HERE. WE GOT YOU.”
How street medics bolster protests in more ways than you may realize
PRISON HORRORS BY THE NUMBERS
Mass respondents shed light on COVID atrocities in new national survey
NO RELIEF IN SIGHT
In a COVID winter, it’s harder than ever to find a public bathroom in Boston. What’s the city doing about it?
APPOINTED SOMERVILLE OFFICIAL SPURS OUTRAGE WITH TWEETS FROM DC MOB SCENE
Mayor Curtatone says “We’re taking it seriously and doing our due diligence”