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By Bill Galluccio On his first full day in office, President  Joe Biden will be focusing his efforts on the coronavirus pandemic that has killed over 400,000 Americans in less than one year. On Thursday (January 21) afternoon, Biden will sign at least ten executive orders relating to vaccine distribution and production, masks, coronavirus testing, reopening schools, and workplace safety. Two of those executive orders will create a National Pandemic Testing Board that will work to boost t...

Purdue names Thompson as 2021 Dreamer Award recipient Don Thompson, recipient of the 2021 Dreamer Award. (Photo provided) Download image Purdue alumnus Don Thompson’s vision for service has made a difference in the lives of millions of customers and employees across the country throughout his career. But his impact and commitment to Boilermakers continues to be one of his strongest sources of pride – reflected in his years of working to advance Purdue’s com...

Free COVID-19 testing in Worcester this week

Interim Hopkins Academy leader staying on as permanent principal Hopkins Academy in Hadley GAZETTE FILE PHOTO April Camuso is seen on a high school trip with students to Prague. SUBMITTED PHOTO By SCOTT MERZBACH HADLEY — April Camuso, named as the interim principal at Hopkins Academy for the school year in June, will remain in the position on a permanent basis. Superintendent Annie McKenzie informed the School Committee Monday that she was dispensing with what could be an extensive search for...

Marcella Nunez-Smith, the incoming chair of the Biden administration’s COVID-19 Equity Task Force, gets her first dose of the Moderna vaccine on Friday. She is working hard to encourage the minority community to step up and get vaccinated. All this in the midst of growing concerns in the Black community and specifically Back health care professionals not wanting to take the vaccine. The data is showing vaccine numbers are not as hoped for.   Appearing via video link, Dr. Marcella Nunez-Sm...

Vast racial health disparities are not accidental and can be fixed, says Dr. Marcella Nunez-Smith, head of Biden’s Covid-19 Health Equity Task Force.

On the eve of Biden's vaccine rollout, board members of his Covid-19 response team are largely in the dark about the plan’s details, according to three people familiar.

Although Biden announced the 16 members of his advisory board in November, most of them will not receive a briefing on his plan for the government until tomorrow afternoon. Members of the board include New Yorker writer and surgeon Atul Gawande...

Boston Mayor Marty Walsh, as photographed on March 13, 2020. (Michael Dwyer/AP) Before his expected move to Washington, D.C. to serve as Joe Bidens Secretary of Labor, Boston Mayor Marty Walsh acknowledged that a deadly pandemic made 2020 "a tough year" for the city, but said 2021 will be "a year of healing." "We may be hurting, but the state of our city is resilient," Walsh said in his final State of the City address on Tuesday, which he delivered from the rebuilt Roxbury branch of the Boston ...

Connecticut leaders join forces to discuss increasing equity in the rollout of the COVID-19 vaccine.