COVID-19 Variant That Originated In South Africa Found In Mass.
The variant was discovered in a female in her 20s who lives in Middlesex County and who had no reported travel.
View ArticleMass. Residents 65+ Or With 2 Comorbidities Can Get Coronavirus Vaccine...
Starting Thursday, people 65 and older, those with two or more specific comorbidities and staff and residents of low income senior housing will be eligible for coronavirus vaccinations in...
View ArticleCiting Shortcomings, Lawmakers Call Baker Administration To Testify On...
The Legislature's new COVID-19 and Emergency Preparedness and Management Committee will host a hearing on Feb. 25 to hear testimony from the executive branch about how it has been distributing vaccine...
View ArticleOn 1st Day Millions Are Eligible For The Vaccine, Mass. Websites Crumble...
Now, as the vaccine rollout steams into larger and younger populations that are more internet savvy, experts worry web slowdowns might hit with greater frequency if certain weaknesses aren’t addressed.
View ArticleMass. Survey Documents Disparate Impacts Of Pandemic For People Of Color, Low...
Groups including LGBTQ populations, people of color, lower-income households and those with disabilities often experienced more worry about COVID-19, less economic stability during the crisis, and...
View Article6 Hours And 6 Minutes: Bob Oakes On Delays And 'Delirium' Signing Up For A...
Stepping away. English breakfast tea. Remembering the woodpecker. How Morning Edition host Bob Oakes kept it together enough to keep trying to book his vaccine appointment.
View ArticleDo I Qualify? Vaccine Confusion For Patients With Multiple Serious Medical...
As Massachusetts makes vaccines available for residents with two or more medical conditions that put them at risk of a severe case of COVID, many residents are finding the state's criteria can be...
View ArticleRage Quit: Mass. Residents Furious Over State's Faulty Vaccine Websites
An estimated million Massachusetts residents had been waiting patiently for their turn to receive the COVID-19 vaccine. This morning, it was their time, and they threw themselves at the states vaccine...
View ArticleWeekly Vaccine Shipment to Massachusetts Partially Delayed
At least some of the vaccine doses already allotted to Massachusetts this week will not arrive here until Monday, and the state's COVID-19 Command Center is working with providers to determine how the...
View ArticleAfter Uncertainty, Mass. Says 135,000 Vaccine Doses Have Arrived And...
On Thursday, Gov. Charlie Baker said the wintery weather across the south was threatening to delay part of the state's weekly vaccine shipment from the federal government.
View Article'Vaccine Redlining': Massachusetts' Congressional Delegation Talk About...
After about a full year of the coronavirus crisis, data has gradually revealed what many predicted would happen: people of color, as well as people who are medically or financially vulnerable, are...
View Article2 More Mega Vaccination Sites Opening In Massachusetts
The state already has mass vaccination sites at Gillette Stadium, Fenway Park, the DoubleTree Hotel in Danvers, and the Eastfield Mall in Springfield.
View ArticleAs U.S. Surpasses A Half Million Deaths, COVID Cases Are On The Decline
"It's certainly premature to think that we are out of the woods. We're not out of the woods. We're just in a somewhat less densely wooded part of the woods," says Bill Hanage, an associate professor of...
View ArticleVaccination Scheduling Vendor Billed State For Almost $500,000
The Maryland-based software company whose technology played a role in the state's COVID-19 vaccine scheduling system fiasco last week appears to have cost Massachusetts almost half a million dollars,...
View ArticleHuman Testing Begins On Springtime Lyme Disease Shot Developed In Mass.
The shot is first being tested in Nebraska rather than Massachusetts to be sure the antibodies in subjects come from the injection rather than previous infections.
View Article2 Hard-Hit Cities, 2 Diverging Fates In Vaccine Rollout
Rhode Island has opened up vaccinations to all Central Fall residents 18 or older. City officials say they’re on pace to inoculate most residents by the summer. Massachusetts, meanwhile, hasn’t done...
View ArticleSome Hospitals Resuming New COVID-19 Vaccinations As Supply Increases
Gov. Charlie Baker had shifted deliveries of vaccines to mass vaccination sites, pharmacies and community health centers saying he needed to focus on efficiency with limited supply.
View ArticleWhat Went Wrong With The Mass. Vaccine Website — And What's Being Done About It
The system for signing up for the coronavirus vaccine in Massachusetts has had its share of problems and left countless people looking for appointments extremely frustrated.
View ArticleWhat Went Wrong With The 'Tiny Nonprofit' Behind The State's Beleaguered...
A tiny nonprofit transformed its software to manage COVID vaccine appointments in 27 states. The program, PrepMod, is now under a microscope.
View ArticleBaker Testifies About Vaccine Rollout Snags On Beacon Hill
WBUR health reporter Angus Chen joined Morning Edition to unpack the hearing's highlights.
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