Using the same collaborative strategies that powered the Cambridge Innovation Center, founder Tim Rowe has helped Massachusetts fight the COVID-19 pandemic with hundreds of testing sites and vaccination clinics.
After hosting an oversight hearing that top state health officials skipped, high-ranking lawmakers are now calling on Gov. Charlie Baker to consider a menu of pandemic management options, including quarantine and isolation shelters and a pause on school mask mandate exemptions.
Gov. Charlie Baker said his administration has secured over 2 million rapid COVID-19 tests and will be distributing them in the state’s communities “hardest hit” by the pandemic.
Greater Boston construction workers will have more access to COVID-19 testing under a new regional testing partnership that a group of elected officials, health experts and construction industry leaders announced Monday.
The new numbers pushed the state’s confirmed COVID-19 death toll to 10,588 and its confirmed caseload since the start of the pandemic to nearly 225,800.
With a second surge of COVID-19 transmission still underway as the holiday season begins, Gov. Charlie Baker brushed away “rumor-mongering” that the state will soon tighten restrictions but flagged clusters in houses of worship as a growing concern.
Many suburban and rural areas have been added to the riskier categories, and nearly a quarter of Massachusetts communities landed in the red.
The Baker administration unveiled a new risk measurement system Friday for cities and towns in Massachusetts, raising the cases required per 100,000 threshold for the “red” designation while adding variables for community size and positive test rate.
With COVID-19 cases rising in Massachusetts this fall and branches continuing to service customers, a local community bank has set up a regular testing program to fight the spread of the virus.
Massachusetts residents traveling to New York State and Connecticut must now self-quarantine for 14 days because the Bay State’s incidence of COVID-19 has risen too high.
Massachusetts is in the midst of a steady resurgence of the highly-contagious virus with 1,128 new cases of COVID-19 reported Saturday and another 1,097 new cases confirmed Sunday and the governor is urging safety for Halloween festivities.
Massachusetts public health authorities have reported around 1,000 daily tallies of new confirmed cases of COVID-19 for the past four days, the first time in months such a statistic has been repeatedly reported.
Stocks are pulling lower Friday, as Wall Street’s first reaction to President Donald Trump’s testing positive for the coronavirus was to retrench.
The return of college students from around the world to the many campuses and college towns in Massachusetts has been the source of much concern in recent weeks.
There are more than 300 more active cases of COVID-19 in Massachusetts this week than there were last week and the rate at which new cases are being diagnosed continues to outpace the rate at which people are recovering.
Does your college-bound child have all the latest accessories? A laptop, a mask, notebooks, pens, Lysol wipes, and a crippling feeling of loneliness as they sit in their dorm room alone for months on end?
State field teams will fan out across five communities that have recorded persistent dangerously-high transmission rates for COVID-19 as the state seeks to stamp out the disease.
With the average COVID-19 positive test rate hovering around a pandemic-era low of 1 percent for the past week, Gov. Charlie Baker said Tuesday that health metrics are “in a great place” even as he stressed the importance of continued vigilance against the highly infectious coronavirus.
Another 262 cases of COVID-19 were confirmed by the Department of Public Health on Thursday as hospitalizations inched up but the state’s seven-day average positive test rate declined to its lowest point yet.
