What The 'Designated Driver' Campaign Could Teach Us About How To Handle The...
Jay Winsten says effective public health communication is crucial to get people to change their behavior.
View ArticleMass. Now Will Allow Businesses To Operate At 40% Capacity
Gov. Charlie Baker is comfortable enough with the downward trend of COVID-19 cases to loosen a major restriction. Start Monday, offices, gyms, restaurants and other businesses are being allowed to...
View ArticleSomerville Mayor Curtatone Explains Why His City Won't Relax COVID Business...
Somerville Mayor Joe Curtatone explains the city's decision, even as the state announced that as of Monday, businesses can now operate at 40% capacity.
View ArticleMBTA Plans Vaccine Site For Workers In Quincy
General Manager Steve Poftak told the agency's board Monday that the facility will have a target capacity of 200 doses per day before potentially scaling up.
View ArticleChelsea Organizations Band Together To Create Vaccination Site
Dinanyili Paulino, chief operating officer of La Colaborativa, talks to Morning Edition about the effort in Chelsea to get residents vaccinated. Community organizers say the city and its communities of...
View ArticleClinicians Concerned About Vaccine Hesitancy Among People Experiencing...
In the three weeks since the population became eligible for coronavirus vaccines, Boston's Health Care for the Homeless Program says 25% of people staying in the city's shelters have received the first...
View Article'Twindemic' Averted: Not Much Flu In Mass., And Record Low Rates Across The...
Infectious disease specialists had feared a double hit from both flu and COVID-19, but it appears that measures to stem COVID have also kept the flu at bay.
View ArticleSeniors' Trusted Companions Now Also Can Be Vaccinated At Some Sites In Mass.
In an effort to make the COVID-19 vaccine more accessible to residents 75 and older, the Baker administration plans to begin this week allowing anyone who accompanies an eligible senior to one of the...
View ArticleData Shows Improvement In Mass. Vaccination Effort
In six days, the percentage of COVID-19 vaccine doses shipped to Massachusetts that have been administered has risen from just under 58% to almost 71%, an indication of progress in the widespread...
View ArticleWhen You've Been Vaccinated Against COVID, But The People You Live With Have Not
The millions of Americans who’ve been vaccinated are still a pretty exclusive club. That means a lot of couples, roommates and families divided into haves and have-nots, with some shifting roles,...
View ArticleMass. Vaccination Rate Improving, But Still Falls Short Of New England Neighbors
For more, WBUR's Morning Edition was joined by Dr. Monica Bharel, commissioner of the Massachusetts Department of Public Health.
View ArticleNurses At Worcester Hospital Vote To Authorize Strike
Thee nurses at St. Vincent hospital have voted to authorize their negotiating committee to call a strike if management does not agree to increase staffing levels, which the nurses say is necessary to...
View ArticleHospitals Fume As Governor Shifts Coronavirus Vaccine Strategy
Hospitals in Massachusetts have stopped scheduling new vaccination appointments, and some are ramping down operations at community sites, after learning the Baker administration will not send them...
View ArticleIn Letter To Baker, House Dems Call For End Of Companion Vaccines
The lawmakers said the so-called "companion system" offers disproportionate benefits to families with reliable access to a car and ability to take time off work -- many of whom will tend to be white...
View ArticleMassachusetts Vaccine Companion Rule Gets Abused By Some
A rash of online ads from people looking to cut the vaccination line drew a stern rebuke from Gov. Charlie Baker, who warned against offers of help from complete strangers.
View ArticleSite Changes Aim To Ease Work Of Making Vaccine Appointments
The state's COVID-19 vaccine website now lists available appointments for some locations, part of a new platform the Baker administration launched Friday to smooth the sometimes-challenging process of...
View ArticleBaker Says No Doses Without Appointments, Despite Reports Of Excess Vaccines...
Long lines formed and confusion spread earlier this week at the mass vaccination site in Danvers, raising questions about what is being done with excess doses. Baker repeatedly said no one without an...
View ArticleHow Our Brutal Science System Almost Cost Us A Pioneer Of mRNA Vaccines
A doctor who witnessed the tribulations of mRNA vaccine pioneer Katalin Karikó warns that science is naturally hard, but the system that puts make-or-break financial pressures on American scientists...
View ArticleMass. AG's Office Awards $1.5 Million In Grants To Address Racial Disparities...
The Massachusetts attorney general's office has awarded $1.5 million in grants to 16 organizations across the state to address racial disparities in opioid addiction treatment and recovery services.
View Article19 More Cases Of U.K. Coronavirus Variant Reported In Mass.
The highly-transmissible variant has caused surges of transmission in the U.K. and parts of California and Florida. Some studies suggest the variant could increase transmissibility by about 50%.
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