Moderna 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...
View ArticleAs Those Over 75 Become Eligible For Vaccines, Mass. Residents Describe A...
In emailed responses, residents describe a confusing online sign-up system, a lack of available appointments, and frustration at the slow vaccine rollout.
View ArticleA Public Health Expert On Who Is To Blame For Massachusetts Vaccine Rollout Woes
For more on this, WBUR's Deborah Becker spoke with Dr. Howard Koh, the former state commissioner of the Department of Public Health and served as the assistant secretary of public health under...
View ArticleState Lawmakers Urge Baker To Create More Streamlined Vaccination Sign-Up System
Sen. Eric Lesser, a Longmeadow Democrat, filed a bill Thursday ordering the Department of Public Health to create a one-stop online portal that is more accessible as soon as possible.
View ArticleTips From Mass. Residents Who Successfully Booked Coronavirus Vaccinations...
We reached out to our readers and listeners, asking those who were successful in making an appointment for their COVID vaccine to share tips and words of wisdom on the process. Here's what they had to...
View ArticleElder Services Organizations Assisting Seniors With Accessing Vaccinations...
The CEO of Jamaica Plain-based Ethos says the organization is helping elders navigate the confusing process through outreach, technical and language assistance, transportation. and other services.
View ArticleTwo Hot Dogs And A Shot, Please! From Fenway Park To Hospitals, More...
The iconic baseball park is being transformed into a mass vaccinating site able to give thousands of shots a week.
View ArticleWith Latinos Dying At Higher Rates From COVID, Brigham And Women’s Hospital...
When Brigham and Women's Hospital compared Black and brown patients to white patients with similar chronic illnesses, they found no difference in the risk of death from COVID. A difference did emerge...
View ArticlePandemic Help Wanted: Fast Food Managers, Road Race Experts
The race director of the Boston Marathon, which is on hold until fall, is part of an emerging group of event organizers and other unconventional logistics experts who are using their skills to help the...
View ArticleFuneral Industry Awaits Response On Vaccine Request
A group of more than 100 lawmakers who asked Gov. Charlie Baker two weeks ago to prioritize funeral home workers for COVID-19 vaccines say they are frustrated that they have yet to hear back from the...
View ArticleSome Community Health Centers, Key Partners In Vaccine Rollout, Don’t Have Any
Community health centers are supposed to play an important role in the state's effort to vaccinate residents of cities and towns with the highest coronavirus infection rates. But as vaccinations get...
View ArticleWhat Phase Two Of Vaccine Rollout Means For A Hospital In A COVID Hot Spot
WBUR's Morning Edition host Bob Oakes was joined by CEO and family physician Dr. Kiame Mahaniah to discuss.
View ArticlePhase 2 Of Vaccination Plan Begins Amid A Snowy Day In Mass.
After criticism about the decentralized vaccine sign-up website, Gov. Baker said his administration will open a call center and has begun making changes to the website. Meanwhile, civil rights and...
View ArticleSecret Addiction Treatment Shoppers Log Hard Sell Tactics At Some Residential...
Luxury rooms, help with travel, pressure to enroll and requests for family contact info. These were among a range of questionable recruitment tactics encountered by callers posing as uninsured heroin...
View ArticleSpanish Speakers Eligible For Vaccine Frustrated By Language Barrier
Tibisay Zea, a reporter for WBUR's partner El Planeta, joined Morning Edition host Bob Oakes to discuss.
View ArticlePHOTOS: With 5 Mega Vaccine Sites Now Open In Mass., Here's A Look Inside...
Sites at the Reggie Lewis Center in Roxbury and Fenway Park began administering coronavirus vaccines this week.
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