'The Light Is At The End Of The Tunnel': Experts Optimistic About Pfizer...
Regulators and independent advisors are meeting Thursday to discuss promising data from Pfizer’s clinical trials, and experts say they expect emergency use authorization to be granted.
View Article31 Dead, Three-Quarters Of Residents Infected In Western Mass. Nursing Home...
Coronavirus infections have ripped through the state's third-largest nursing home in recent days, leaving 31 dead despite infection control measures.
View ArticleWATCH LIVE: FDA Considers Green Light For Pfizer Coronavirus Vaccine
The FDA is set to begin an in-depth panel discussion at 3 p.m., wrapping with votes on questions posed by its advisers. If granted emergency use authorization, Americans could begin receiving the...
View ArticleState-Run Data System Will Track Mass. Vaccine Patients And Remind Them When...
After the 2009 H1N1 outbreak, Massachusetts public health officials built a state-of-the-art data system for its vaccine programs. That system soon will be put to the test as the state deploys its...
View ArticleThis Mass. Epidemiologist Sits On The FDA Committee That Authorized Pfizer's...
Dr. Eric Rubin sits on that committee. He’s also editor-in-chief of the New England Journal of Medicine — and he joined WBUR's Morning Edition to talk about it.
View ArticleStudy: Biogen Conference Linked To As Many As 300,000 COVID-19 Cases
The meeting of Biogen managers sent 100 people home with the coronavirus who then spread it to 29 states and overseas to Australia, Slovakia and Sweden, according to the study published Thursday.
View ArticleSome Health Care Workers Could Get Vaccine As Early As Monday
The first COVID-19 vaccine authorized for emergency use in the U.S. is shipping to hospitals across the country. Health care workers will be among the first to receive the shots.
View ArticleWith COVID-19 Vaccines On The Way, BMC Doctor Discusses Future Plans For...
With COVID-19 vaccines approved for emergency use and on the way, Dr. Cassandra Pierre — an infectious disease physician at Boston Medical Center who serves as the acting hospital epidemiologist —...
View ArticleThe Vaccine Is Almost Here. Up First To Receive It, Health Care Workers Have...
As 60,000 small, frozen vials of a coronavirus vaccine make their way to hospitals in Massachusetts, there’s a growing sense of excitement, confusion and trepidation among hospital workers. Some...
View ArticleFirst Coronavirus Vaccines Arrive In Mass.
The vials were delivered at Boston Medical Center, Brockton Hospital, Cape Cod Hospital and Falmouth Hospital on Monday morning. Other area hospitals were also expecting deliveries early this week.
View ArticleBed Availability Metric More Precise As New Virus Cases Remain High
The Department of Public Health this weekend began using hospital bed counts as reported by the hospitals rather than rounded figures when reporting hospital capacity data in its daily reports.
View ArticlePhotos: American Front-Line Workers Get The COVID-19 Vaccine
A look around the country as the first front-line workers in America get the COVID-19 vaccine.
View Article96-Year-Old WWII Veteran In Mass. Is First VA Patient In U.S. To Get...
As the first COVID-19 vaccines began arriving in Massachusetts on Monday, a 96-year-old World War II veteran in Bedford became the first VA patient in the country to get the shot.
View ArticleSay 'Ahh': New App Uses Voices As Biomarker To Screen For Illness
Sonde Health has introduced an app it says can help detect respiratory illnesses by using the voice as a biomarker. Bob Oakes talks to company officials and tries the app himself.
View ArticleMGH Emergency Preparedness Expert Discusses State Plan To Distribute The Vaccine
WBUR's Morning Edition host Bob Oakes was joined by Dr. Paul Biddinger. He’s chief of the Division of Emergency Preparedness at Massachusetts General Hospital, and director of the MGH Center for...
View ArticleBaker Urges Mass. Residents To Alter Or Cancel Holiday Plans To Increase...
The Massachusetts Department of Public Health will issue new guidance Tuesday to offer tips on how to safely celebrate Hanukkah, Christmas, Kwanzaa and New Year's amid the state's rising count of...
View Article'It's Definitely A Relief': Mass. Health Care Workers Begin Receiving...
The arrival of the vaccine has been met with jubilation from health experts. The beginning of these injections, they say, marks a big step toward ending the pandemic.
View ArticleA 'Light On The Horizon': Mass. Doctor Describes Being Among The First To...
Dr. Dani Hackner is a pulmonologist and the chief clinical officer for Southcoast Health System. He was one of several employees to take the first dose of a vaccine against the coronavirus on the first...
View ArticleAs The FDA Reviews Moderna's Vaccine, Scientists Are Already Celebrating
After reviewing an FDA analysis of Moderna's clinical trial data released on Tuesday, health experts expect a repeat of the Pfizer vaccine’s prompt emergency authorization.
View ArticleBoston Doctor Explains Mixed Emotions That Hit Health Workers Who Got COVID...
Dr. Joshua Barocas, an infectious diseases physician at Boston Medical Center, discusses how it felt for him and many others to be first in line to receive the vaccine after 10 months of wading through...
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