RESIDENTS OF LONG-TERM CARE facilities across the state are testing positive for COVID-19 in growing numbers, raising concerns that the highly contagious virus could sweep through a very vulnerable population. […]
Virus notes: Concerns rise at long-term care facilities
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Museum of Fine Arts losses at $1.4m and growing
A MASSACHUSETTS ART MUSEUM laid off almost three-quarters of its staff. Another expects to face a budget deficit in the tens of millions of dollars. Leisure destinations that rely on […]
Posted inHealth Care
Physician assistants provide workforce flexibility
MICHELLE SHKNEVSKY, a general surgery physician assistant at Brockton Hospital, is actually seeing fewer patients since the COVID-19 epidemic began. With no elective surgeries being performed, her unit needs fewer […]
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Judge indicates he plans to release ICE detainees
US DISTRICT COURT JUDGE William Young said on Thursday that he is considering releasing immigrants being held by Immigration and Customs Enforcement at the Bristol County jail to reduce the […]
Posted inHealth Care
Dr. Lee: ICU units won’t beat this disease
This is the fourth conversation between Dr. Jarone Lee, a frontline critical care physician at Massachusetts General Hospital and associate professor at Harvard Medical School, and Dr. Paul Hattis, an […]
Posted inHealth Care
705 to 2,580 COVID-19 deaths projected in Mass.
A GROUP OF EXPERTS assembled by the Baker administration is projecting that the number of confirmed COVID-19 cases during the course of the pandemic in Massachusetts is going to rise […]
Posted inNews Analysis, Politics
Democrats, Republicans divided over coronavirus threat
OVER THE WEEKEND, public health experts warned that the national death toll from the coronavirus could kill up to 200,000 people, escalating the risk faced by the country. Despite these […]
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Remembering the dead
AS OF WEDNESDAY, 122 people had died from COVID-19 in Massachusetts. Many died alone. Their funerals were tiny; their memorial services were postponed. Their families often grieved alone. These are some […]
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Remembering the dead
As of Wednesday, 122 people had died from COVID-19 in Massachusetts. Many died alone. Their funerals were tiny; their memorial services were postponed. Their families often grieved alone. These are […]
Posted inHealth Care
Patriots plane delivers 1m masks from China
MASSACHUSETTS LANDED about 1 million N95 medical-grade respirator masks on Thursday through a humanitarian mission orchestrated by the Baker administration with the help of US and Chinese officials and the […]
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Virus notes: Franklin Cty. reports 3 more deaths
THREE MORE COVID-19 deaths were reported on Wednesday in tiny Franklin County, bringing its total to seven and solidifying its position as the Massachusetts county with the most deaths per […]
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Baker hires private lawyer to probe Holyoke Soldiers’ Home
GOV. CHARLIE BAKER hired an independent attorney to investigate what went wrong at Holyoke Soldiers’ Home leading to a COVID-19 outbreak and related deaths. Baker on Wednesday announced that his office […]
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To mask or not to mask
GOV. CHARLIE BAKER, who is leading efforts to stop the spread of COVID-19 in Massachusetts, doesn’t see a need to wear a mask as he holds press conferences at the […]
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State budget writers are starting over
MASSACHUSETTS BUDGET-WRITERS started the process of crafting the Fiscal 2021 budget in December with a hearing with economic experts about the state’s anticipated revenues. Four months later they’re starting over […]
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For Trump, cameras leave no room for social distancing
Practice what I preach, not what I do. That’s the only takeaway message one can glean from what have now become daily televised briefings by President Trump from the White […]
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For Trump, cameras leave no room for social distancing
Practice what I preach, not what I do. That’s the only takeaway message one can glean from what have now become daily televised briefings by President Trump from the White […]
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State hits some snags in working from home
A LONG-TIME HEALTH CARE administrator working at North Shore Community College is over 60, putting her in a vulnerable category for COVID-19. But as of last week, she was still […]
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How vets died of COVID-19 and no one knew
IT TOOK EIGHT VETERANS’ DEATHS and five days before the head of the Holyoke Soldiers’ Home informed state and local public health authorities about the extent of the COVID-19 outbreak […]
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Virus notes: Franklin emerges as hotspot
NEW NUMBERS RELEASED on Tuesday show just how quickly the coronavirus situation can change, as confirmed cases continued a steady rise, deaths jumped dramatically, and two of the state’s smallest […]
Posted inEconomy
Con sólo pistas ayudan a los hispanohablantes a llenar el formulario de seguro de desempleo
UN GRUPO EN NORTHAMPTON está ayudando a los hispanohablantes a llenar el formulario de seguro de desempleo estatal con una herramienta en lÃnea que los guÃa paso a paso. El […]
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Baker extends state shutdown until May 4
GOV. CHARLIE BAKER on Tuesday urged Massachusetts residents to continue all existing social distancing measures and ordered all non-essential businesses to keep their offices and factories closed until May 4. […]
Posted inEconomy
40 percent of Mass. residents expecting financial hardships
OVER THE COURSE of just a few weeks in March, the markets set records for crashes, unemployment claims shattered records for increases, and economic activity the world over slowed to […]
Posted inPolitics
Markey ‘wins’ state Dem convention
A correction has been added to this story clarifying that Ed Markey and Joe Kennedy III agreed that Markey would have won the convention and Kennedy would have won the […]
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Markey ‘wins’ state Dem convention
Ed Markey is going to win the state Democratic Party’s nomination for US Senate without even having to go to the Tsongas Center at UMass Lowell and give a speech. […]