Shekarchi appoints bipartisan House task force for vaccine distribution

Alexa Gagosz

November 24, 2020 2:36 pm

SPEAKER-NOMINEE K. Joseph Shekarchi announced Tuesday a bipartisan House of Representatives task force to oversee the state's implementation of COVID-19 vaccine distribution. / COURTESY CENTERS FOR DISEASE CONTROL AND PREVENTION — A NEW STUDY says as many as 300,000 COVID-19 cases around the world can be traced to a two-day biotech meeting at a hotel in downtown Boston last February. COURTESY CENTERS FOR DISEASE CONTROL AND PREVENTION

PROVIDENCE – R.I. House of Representatives Speaker-nominee K. Joseph Shekarchi, D-Warwick, announced Tuesday a bipartisan House task force to oversee the state's implementation of COVID-19 vaccine distribution. The purpose of the task force, according to the announcement, is to ensure that Rhode Island's distribution of the vaccine is done in a "timely manner," following guidelines…