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[Hank Chinaski]

Originally Posted by Greedy,Greedy,Greedy

We have a lot of variation by city here that people worry about. Boston is actually pretty good, the burbs, both inner and outer, are excellent but the smaller cities, Springfield, Lowell, and Worcester, are not so good and the truly rural areas' rates kind of suck.

At least here, access does seem to matter, in terms of where cities have gone out of their way to do outreach and let people know of how to get the vaccine - where there is local leadership in Churches and among politicians we do better. And in Boston the local hospitals have been doing great outreach for years, giving them a lot more credibility.

In the rural areas, it isn't just the conservatives who are problems, there are hippy anti-vaxxers as well.

All in all a complex scene, but anyone working against vaccines, which includes virtually the entire Republican party (except our Republican, health-care experienced governor, who is actually pretty good on them). But on the left it's the Marianne Williamson and Robert Kennedy types and in the black community here it really isn't the Boston leadership (leadership in places like Lowell among the Hispanic community is much more suspect).

Our rural counties are also way worse than even Detroit.