With rising COVID-19 cases, the ongoing mask debate and kids heading back to school in just a few weeks, NBC10 Boston wanted to know how many kids are.
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Over time, the Massachusetts Executive Office of Health and Human Services and Department of Public Health (DPH) have improved reporting about cases and .
Is Massachusetts undercounting COVID deaths in nursing homes?
A change in methodology â to align the state with national standards â pegs the death rate at 1 in 7 residents instead of 1 in 4
By Kay Lazar Globe Staff,Updated April 23, 2021, 2 hours ago
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In April last year, the National Guard was sent to Quincy and other places to help nursing homes with coronavirus testing.Stan Grossfeld/Globe Staff
Earlier this month, one of the darkest images of the pandemic seemingly brightened overnight. On April 14, Massachusetts had one of the highest reported nursing home COVID-19 death rates in the country, with 9,018 dead.
Mass. takes heat for its vaccine rollout
Updated January 27, 2021, 2:30 a.m.
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Many lack digital tools, skills to sign up for vaccination
Massachusetts is finally taking critical steps to hasten the pace of our COVID-19 vaccine rollout (âGovernor quickens vaccine rollout, adds sites,â Page A1, Jan. 26). But if wide-scale vaccination is primarily dependent on thousands of people signing up for appointments through a complex online portal, we will leave behind our most vulnerable residents, many of whom donât have access to the digital tools or skills necessary to sign up.
Nationally, 18 percent of all households donât have Internet access and 23 percent donât have a home computer, and 41 percent of people covered by Medicare donât have access to the Internet from home. These major gaps in digital access and knowledge create significant barriers for millions of Americans, and thousands of people in Massachusetts, who are unable to reac