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Jordan Frias has reported on the response to COVID-19 through our Pandemic Democracy Project for nearly a year. Published together below, his latest dispatches from… FROM MASS TESTING TO MASS INOCULATION: A COVID RESPONSE IN THREE SCENES
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This article was produced by our partners at El Planeta and translated into English by the Boston Institute for Nonprofit Journalism. A Spanish version can be found here.




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Elijah Patterson flashes an activist icon on screen share during testimony at Friday’s DOC hearing while DOC attorney Heidi D. Handler looks on | Photo courtesy of Jean Trounstine




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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.