Now Recovered From COVID-19, DPH's Bharel Describes 'Intense Exhaustion' And...
Dr. Bharel joined WBUR's Morning Edition to discuss her own experience and the way forward for Massachusetts.
View ArticleCOVID-19 Hits Elder Care Facilities In Mass. The Hardest, With More Than...
More than a third of these facilities have at least one person who's tested positive, and the list grows by the day. WBUR's Miriam Wasser joins Bob Oaks to discuss the situation.
View ArticleDoctors Try Out Curbside Vaccinations For Kids To Prevent A Competing Pandemic
There is no way to prevent the coronavirus, but there are vaccines for a dozen-plus diseases that threaten children, in particular. And if kids delay or skip their vaccinations, communities in...
View ArticleAfter Hundreds Of Patients In Somerville COVID-19 Clinic, A Turning Point...
A Somerville clinic finds that among its patients, shortness of breath that begins after several days of COVID-19 symptoms may be a critical turning point.
View Article49 Residents — More Than One-Third — Of Belmont Manor Residents Have Died...
The family-owned Belmont Manor Nursing Home has been one of the hardest hit long-term care facilities in the state.
View ArticleBaker Still Won't Say Whether He'll Extend The Shutdown Order for...
Senior State House reporter Steve Brown joins WBUR's All Things Considered to discuss the day's coronavirus news from Beacon Hill.
View ArticleFor Boston Homeless Shelter Workers On The Coronavirus Front Line, Importance...
The president of the day shelter St. Francis House, Karen LaFrazia, became ill with COVID-19. Her 15-year-old daughter then caught it and is hospitalized. LaFrazia says widespread testing in the...
View ArticleMass. General Hospital Builds COVID-19 Simulator To Help Predict Impact of...
To help with the state's decision of when and how to reopen non-essential businesses, researchers at Massachusetts General Hospital have developed a COVID-19 simulator that they say can predict future...
View ArticleCOVID-19 Front-Line Diaries Show Pride And Pain For Health Care Workers In...
To help us grasp what’s happening, WBUR asked five front line hospital staffers, those in some of the highest risk positions, to record and share some of their experiences during what may be the peak...
View ArticleBU Global Health Professor Says To Expect A Gradual Decline In Coronavirus Cases
Dr. David Hamer is a professor of global health and medicine at Boston University, and an infectious disease specialist at Boston Medical Center.
View ArticleFor Nursing Homes Battling COVID-19, Baker Says State Will Deploy Emergency...
Baker also again said he would have more to say about business closures and plans to reopen the economy later this week.
View ArticleCOVID-19 Reporting Hiccup Due To Lab’s Computer Changeover
The laboratory reporting error that created a hiccup in COVID-19 data in Massachusetts at the end of last week was the result of a computer system changeover that delayed when test results were sent to...
View ArticleGovernor Says Coronavirus Curve Flattening in Mass. As Shutdown Deadline...
WBUR's Senior State House Reporter Steve Brown joins All Things Considered to talk about the latest in the state's response to the coronavirus pandemic.
View ArticleChecking In With The Mayor Of Brockton
Brockton Mayor Robert Sullivan joined WBUR's Morning Edition to discuss the coronavirus outbreak in the city, and the way forward.
View ArticleBaker Says Curve Is Flattening In Mass.; White House Releases 'Blueprint' For...
WBUR senior news correspondent Kimberly Atkins joined Morning Edition host Bob Oakes about what's next both in Massachusetts and in Washington.
View ArticleMass. Treatment Center Has Among The Highest COVID-19 Prisoner Death Rates In...
A WBUR analysis finds the treatment center has one of the highest COVID-19 prisoner death rates in the nation.
View ArticleCoronavirus Infections Double Among Prisoners At MCI-Shirley
As of Monday, 106 prisoners tested positive, of 245 prisoners tested at Shirley.
View ArticleMass. Prisoners Are Not Routinely Tested For The Coronavirus When Released
Three men recently released from the Massachusetts Treatment Center in Bridgewater tell WBUR they were not tested before their release. Two of the men have since tested positive for the virus.
View ArticleMajor Boston Hospitals Now Require Virus Testing For Pregnant Patients...
A diagnostic nasal swab is now required for all pregnant patients admitted for delivery -- whether they have symptoms or not -- at many of the state’s largest maternity care facilities.
View ArticleWhy Doesn't COVID-19 Make Most Kids Sick? Boston Children's Hospital Launches...
The study will follow 800 children at hospitals around the country and try to understand why COVID affects them so differently from the flu.
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