MGH Infectious Disease Doctor Discusses Mass.' 1st Confirmed Case Of New...
Jacob Lemieux, an MGH infectious disease doctor, joined Morning Edition to discuss the variant of the coronavirus and its implications for Massachusetts residents.
View ArticleMedical Professionals, Activists Push Baker To Prioritize Vaccine Access For...
Massachusetts Gov. Charlie Baker is being urged by a coalition of community activists and medical professionals to give the state’s Black and immigrant communities priority access to COVID-19 vaccines.
View ArticleWorcester Begins Coronavirus Vaccinations At Homeless Shelters
Guests and workers at the shelter known as Hotel Grace received their first doses of the Moderna vaccine Tuesday. Healthcare workers will return to the site and other shelters 28 days after the first...
View ArticleFenway Park Named As Next COVID-19 Mass Vaccination Site
Starting Feb. 1, the ballpark will begin administering 500 vaccines per day by appointment and will soon ramp up to providing 1,000 vaccines per day to eligible residents in phase one priority groups...
View ArticleSecond Case Of COVID-19 Variant Detected In Mass.
Public Health Commissioner Monica Bharel said the case of the B.1.1.7 variant was discovered by the Massachusetts Public Health Laboratory, but she did not offer further details.
View ArticleMassachusetts Drops Student Flu Vaccine Mandate
The state has dropped a requirement that all students get the flu shot this academic year in part because it has been a mild flu season so far.
View ArticleVaccine Delivery Speeds Up In Mass.
The newly eligible health care workers include dentists, medical and nursing students, physical therapists, hospital interpreters, behavioral health clinicians, among others.
View ArticleStudy Finds No Increase In Suicides In Mass. During First Months Of Pandemic
"We certainly can say that the lockdown period, or stay-at-home period itself, was not associated with a rise [in suicides]," said Brigham and Women's Hospital emergency physician Dr. Jeremy Faust.
View ArticleTwo More Mass. Prisoners Die Of COVID, DOC Reports
Six prisoners have died of the disease in the past three weeks, and fourteen state prisoners were hospitalized with COVID-19 as of Friday morning.
View ArticleMass. Eases Coronavirus Restrictions, As Some Trends Show Positive Change
Dr. Abraar Karan, an internal medicine physician at the Brigham and Women's Hospital and Harvard Medical School.
View ArticleNearly 2,000 Vaccine Doses Spoiled At A Boston Hospital
Staff at the Jamaica Plain VA Medical Center discovered on Tuesday that a freezer had failed, compromising 1,900 doses of the Moderna COVID-19 vaccine.
View Article'I Said Yeah, I Want To Get That Shot': Pine Street Inn Shelter Residents...
Boston shelters hope to vaccinate upwards of 70% of their guests and staff members. Pine Street Inn reports at this point, about 50% are saying yes to the vaccine.
View ArticleMass. Health Connector Continuing Open Enrollment Until March 23
Officials said that with open enrollment ongoing, Massachusetts residents who do not have health insurance have an additional opportunity to get coverage.
View ArticleToday's Special At Grendel's Den In Harvard Square: A Coronavirus Test For...
As "pooled testing" -- combining test samples to cut costs -- becomes more popular, a classic Harvard Square hangout gives it a try.
View ArticleAn Epidemiologist On Where The Pandemic Stands In Mass., Nearly A Year After...
Stephen Kissler, an immunology and infectious disease research fellow at Harvard’s T.H. Chan School of Public Health, joined WBUR's Morning Edition host Bob Oakes to talk about the latest on the...
View ArticleModerna Testing Booster To Combat New Variant
Cambridge-based Moderna will launch a clinical trial to study a potential COVID-19 booster shot after finding that its vaccine does not produce as significant a response to a new variant of the highly...
View ArticleBaker Makes Seniors Eligible Sooner And Adds Vaccination Sites Amid Slow Rollout
Residents aged 65 and older have been bumped up in priority, and will join people with two or more comorbidities in the second group to become eligible in phase two sometime in February.
View ArticleN.H Reverses Policy, Now Says Vaccines Only Available For State Residents
According to a state website updated Jan. 21, anyone who owns land in New Hampshire need only provide proof of property ownership to get vaccinated in New Hampshire, despite the lack of doses currently...
View ArticleVaccines Will Take Months To Slow Down The Pandemic. Until Then, Mask Up
Vaccines may one day help us bring the pandemic to an end, but they won’t do much to lower COVID deaths for the next few months. A new analysis finds lives saved by basic measures like masking,...
View ArticleBaker Says Second Phase Of Vaccine Rollout Starts Next Week, But Experts...
For more on this, WBUR's Morning Edition was joined by Michael Curry. He’s president and CEO of the Massachusetts League of Community Health Centers, and serves on the state’s COVID vaccine advisory...
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