Charts: Mass. continues to make progress in the battle against the coronavirus
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Danasia Bennett of Mattapan, receives her first dose of the Moderna COVID-19 vaccine from Sgt. Santo DellAquila of the Massachusetts Army National Guard at the Harvard Street Neighborhood Health Center vaccine clinic at the Prince Hall Grand Lodge on April 20, 2021.Craig F. Walker/Globe Staff/The Boston Globe
How are we doing? Another week of data brought more encouraging signs in the stateâs battle against the coronavirus.
Experts and officials say key metrics are on the decline because of the stateâs vaccination campaign. Steep drops in hospitalizations, deaths, and other measures among the vulnerable elderly, who got their shots earlier in the campaign, are a driving force.
Five charts that show how Mass. is doing in the battle against the coronavirus
By Martin Finucane and Ryan Huddle Globe Staff,Updated April 29, 2021, 2:57 p.m.
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A vaccine dose being prepared last week at the Harvard Street Neighborhood Health Center vaccine clinic at the Prince Hall Grand Lodge in Dorchester.Craig F. Walker/Globe Staff
Coronavirus data released by the Department of Public Health continued to offer hope in the past week that the pandemic is loosening its deadly grip on Massachusetts, as the stateâs vaccination campaign raced to inject shots into peopleâs arms to protect them from the coronavirus and its variants.
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Mass. reports 2,781 new confirmed coronavirus cases, 98 new deaths
By Martin Finucane Globe Staff,Updated January 29, 2021, 5:24 p.m.
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Gene Leonard, a World War II veteran, received a vaccination earlier this month in Woburn. With coronavirus variants arriving in the US, officials are racing against time to get the population vaccinated.Lane Turner/Globe Staff
The number of confirmed coronavirus cases in Massachusetts rose by 2,781 on Friday, while the seven-day average was 3,400. The new cases brought the stateâs total to 491,642.
The death toll from confirmed cases increased by 98 to 14,154, the Department of Public Health reported.
The stateâs second case surge has subsided in recent weeks. But officials and experts are growing increasingly concerned about the impact of new variants arriving in the United States that could fuel another rise in cases, hospitalizations, and deaths. A race is on to get the population vaccinated before that happens.
A closely watched indicator of coronavirus trends had been falling, but is it about to turn upward again?
By Martin Finucane Globe Staff,Updated January 27, 2021, 2:45 p.m.
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Wastewater at the Deer Island plant is being studied to see how much coronavirus is present.Lane Turner/Globe Staff
The amount of coronavirus detected in wastewater at the Massachusetts Water Resources Authorityâs Deer Island treatment plant had been falling, but in the most recent tests it ticked up slightly.
The new results come as the state is climbing down off its second surge, but there are concerns that new coronavirus variants arriving from overseas could push cases back up. Officials say that underscores the need to get the stateâs residents vaccinated.