1,000 Beds Planned For Boston Convention Center To Treat Coronavirus Patients
Half the beds would be dedicated to serving people who are homeless and have the the coronavirus, but don't need full hospital care. The other 500 beds will be for coronavirus patients coming from...
View ArticleAs COVID-19 Killed Veterans, Holyoke Soldiers' Home Staffers Say Leadership...
Several Soldiers' Home employees gave WBUR damning accounts of poor decision-making by leaders at the Holyoke facility that likely contributed to the spread of the virus among residents and staff.
View ArticleNew COVID-19 'Surge' Projections for Mass.; Patriots Help State Get 1 Million...
WBUR's Senior State House Reporter Steve Brown spoke with All Things Considered host Lisa Mullins about Thursday's developments.
View ArticleAnxiety, Furloughs And Treatment In The Halls: Community Hospitals Respond To...
A few dozen of the acute care hospitals in Massachusetts are community hospitals. They don't have the same resources as the large teaching hospitals backed by big universities. But community hospitals...
View ArticleBringing Home Something Deadly: How Health Workers Are Isolating From Their...
With limited supplies of masks, eye protection and face shields, health care workers must resort to dangerous rationing measures like reusing potentially contaminated masks. Many clinicians fear they...
View ArticleA Lawrence Doctor On Battling The Pandemic In The Merrimack Valley Update
Dr. George Kondylis is chief of emergency medicine at Lawrence General. He joined WBUR's Morning Edition host Bob Oakes to talk about the challenges facing his community amid the outbreak.
View ArticleState Ramps Up Response As Coronavirus Cases And Deaths Continue To Multiply...
WBUR’s Carey Goldberg joined Morning Edition host Bob Oakes to report the latest updates.
View Article3 Residents At Worcester Nursing Home Have Died Of The Coronavirus, 13 Others...
State health and human services secretary Marylou Sudders said there are now clusters of the virus in close to 80 longterm care facilities in the state.
View ArticleHealth Care Workers Push Back Against Rationing Of Protective Equipment
“You are allowed one N95 mask per patient. That means as many times as you go into that room, all your shifts, you are using the same mask and putting it in a brown paper bag again and again,” says...
View ArticleMass. To Begin Contact Tracing Program To Track New Coronavirus Cases
Gov. Charlie Baker announced the ambitious project during a press conference on Friday, saying the state will work with Partners in Health to stand the program up.
View Article51 Of 98 Residents In Wilmington Nursing Facility Test Positive For Coronavirus
State officials had been in the process of moving residents out of the nursing home in order to temporarily convert it into a COVID-19 recovery building. Those plans have been halted.
View Article2 Veterans With COVID-19 Moved From Chelsea Veterans Home To Bedford VA...
Two veterans were moved to a newly converted ward at the Bedford VA Medical Center Thursday night.
View Article'A Heck Of A Time To Get Cancer': Hospitals Defer All But The Most Urgent...
From hip replacements to cancer surgery, some of the "elective procedures" that have had to be postponed because of the coronavirus may not feel very "elective" to the patients who need them, but the...
View ArticlePreparing For COVID-19 'Surge,' Mass. Hospitals Are Losing $1 Billion A...
For more on what else hospitals are doing to fortify themselves, president of the Massachusetts Health and Hospital Association spoke to WBUR. He said it's impossible for hospitals to over-prepare for...
View ArticlePartners In Health Helps State Launch First-In-Nation Contact Tracing;...
Steve Brown talks about the state's new "contact tracing" efforts. Plus, Massachusetts issues its largest number of deaths reported in a single day so far.
View Article'It's Frightening': How New Moms Are Experiencing The Coronavirus Pandemic
The worries that almost all new mom can relate to can be exacerbated in a time of crisis.
View ArticleMass. Health Officials Report More Coronavirus-Related Deaths At Holyoke,...
There have now been at least 22 veteran deaths at Holyoke, while state officials reported an additional death at Chelsea, bringing the death toll there to at least three. Both are state-run nursing...
View ArticleNew England Patriots Open Virus Testing Site
The New England Patriots are opening a drive-through testing site at their stadium in Massachusetts.
View ArticleMorton Hospital In Taunton Converting To COVID-19 Center
Steward Health Care is also making changes in Ayer, Haverhill and Methuen.
View ArticleWalsh Says Boston Is At 'Beginning Of The Surge' And Recommends Curfew In Boston
Boston now has 1,877 confirmed cases and 15 dead attributed to COVID-19. That's up 259 cases from Saturday.
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