Massachusetts Girds For the COVID-19 Surge
WBUR Senior State House Reporter Steve Brown joins WBUR's All Things Considered from Beacon Hill to discuss the day's developments.
View ArticleHarvard Economist Weighs In On How Reopening For Business May Look...
Despite President Donald Trump’s impatience to re-open the economy, there’s still no clear end to the public health crisis; and from this vantage point, the recovery looks long and hard.
View ArticleBaker Teams Up With Northeastern Governors As Mass. Contends With Surge
WBUR's Anthony Brooks joined Morning Edition to share the latest on the pandemic.
View ArticlePressley Says ICU, Ventilator Guidelines Negatively Affect Minorities And...
The guidelines were created to help health care providers decide which patients receive critical resources like intensive care unit beds or ventilators in the event they become scarce.
View ArticleBaker Mum On Whether State Troopers Sent To NYC To Protect Medical Supply...
Baker was asked about a tweet from the official State Police account, which said troopers were escorting the Patriots tractor-trailer to JFK Airport to bring more medical supplies back to the state.
View ArticleHere's How Many COVID-19 Patients Are In Massachusetts Hospitals
Hospitals are reporting how many COVID-19 patients they have in their beds, including in the ICU. Check out our charts below to see how the number of patients has changed over time.
View ArticleMass. Continues To Add Hospital Beds To Tackle The Surge of...
Senior State House Reporter Steve Brown joined WBUR's All Things Considered from Cape Cod, where Gov. Charlie Baker held his daily briefing at a new field hospital.
View ArticleTesting Reveals 'Stunning' Asymptomatic Coronavirus Spread Among Boston's...
Doctors who work with Boston's homeless population are sounding the alarm about asymptomatic spread of the coronavirus and the need for more testing.
View ArticleThe Surge: WBUR's Virtual Town Hall Tackles Your Questions About COVID-19
See highlights from WBUR reporter Carey Goldberg's conversation with Dr. Shira Doron, epidemiologist and infectious disease physician at Tufts Medical Center. Together they answer your questions so far...
View ArticleSitting Shiva Online: How We Grieve During A Pandemic
How do you mourn the loss of a loved one when you can't leave your home?
View ArticleBoston Homeless Advocates Say Asymptomatic Virus Spread Shows 'Urgent' Need...
A cluster of positive cases was discovered among people staying at Pine Street Inn, but most of the patients had no symptoms. That spurred advocates tocall for widespread testing among the city's...
View ArticleHarvard Researchers: Social Distancing May Intermittently Last Into 2022
A group of researchers at Harvard’s T.H. Chan School of Public Health warns that the United States may need to practice periodic social distancing through 2022.
View ArticleMore Than 950 Coronavirus Deaths Reported In Mass., Including Boston Police...
WBUR's Quincy Walters joined Morning Edition host Bob Oakes to report the latest.
View ArticleHealth Care Professionals Move To Mass. Temporarily To Battle The Coronavirus
WBUR's Angus Chen brought the story of one nurse who has left her husband and children to join the frontlines of the fight against COVID-19 to Morning Edition.
View ArticleField Hospitals Going Up In Lowell, Dartmouth
Two more field hospitals are in the works at the University of Massachusetts campuses. A new hospital capacity report, based on numbers from Sunday, shows that about half of the state's total 15,900...
View ArticleMore Than 1,000 Now Reported Dead Due To COVID-19 In Mass.
The latest data released Wednesday shows 1,108 deaths are now attributed to COVID-19. There are 29,918 reported cases in the state.
View ArticleAs Deaths Rise At Nursing Homes, Updates On Mass.' COVID-19 Plans For...
Massachusetts Gov. Charlie Baker on Wednesday focused on the state's efforts to support long-term care facilities during the pandemic. Hundreds have died of COVID-19 inside these facilities.
View ArticleMassachusetts Is In The Coronavirus 'Surge," Says Gov. Baker
Senior State House Reporter Steve Brown joins WBUR's All Things Considered to give us an update on the coronavirus outbreak in Massachusetts.
View ArticleCOVID-19 Hits Boston's Black Community Especially Hard
Michael Curry is senior vice president and general counsel at the Mass League of Community Health Centers and a member of the newly minted COVID-19 Health Inequities Task Force. He joined WBUR's...
View ArticleBerkshire County's COVID-19 Surge Could Be Ahead Of Eastern Mass.
Dr. James Lederer is chief medical officer and chief quality control officer for Berkshire Health Systems. He's also an infectious disease specialist. He joined WBUR's Morning Edition to discuss the...
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