FALL RIVER Free COVID-19 testing six days a week is an offer that’s hard to refuse.
The Cambridge company contracted by the state to administer mass vaccine inoculations at Gillette Stadium will also be providing free nasal-swab tests in a parking lot of Bristol Community College.
CIC Health, a subsidiary of Cambridge Innovation Center, or CIC for short, will do a soft opening of sorts on Saturday in parking lot number 3 in front of the BCC campus.
The Cambridge company has been contracted by the Massachusetts Department of Public Health as part of the state’s Stop the Spread program.
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MATTAPOISETT Superintendent Michael S. Nelson, Mattapoisett Town Administrator Michael C. Lorenco and Mattapoisett Board of Health Chair Carmelo Nicolosi reported in a Friday press release that the Old Rochester Regional School District and MA Superintendency Union #55 was informed of a positive cases of COVID-19 at the Old Rochester Regional High School in Mattapoisett earlier that day.
An individual at the Old Rochester Regional High School has tested positive for the virus and is now self-isolating in accordance with Massachusetts Department of Public Health (DPH) and Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) protocol. The individual was last in the school building on Jan. 12. The individual’s test results have come back after being tested and the school district was immediately notified. Under state and federal health privacy laws, no further information is available about the individual.
An initial map released by MassDPH showed no coronavirus vaccination sites for the Southeastern region of Massachusetts. New Bedford Mayor Jon Mitchell and Senator Mark Montigny pushed back.
State drops flu vaccine requirement for all Massachusetts students Share Updated: 3:49 PM EST Jan 15, 2021 WCVB Share Updated: 3:49 PM EST Jan 15, 2021 The Massachusetts Department of Public Health said Friday it is removing its flu vaccine requirement for students. In August, the state announced the vaccine would be required for all students who attended child care/preschool, primary, secondary and post-secondary education in the state, with some medical, religious and home-school exceptions. The DPH said the change comes after preliminary data show that this has been a mild flu season to date, presumably as people have received their seasonal flu vaccine and have been adhering to mask-wearing and social distancing due to COVID-19. Given the intensive commonwealth-wide efforts regarding COVID-19 vaccination, DPH wants to alleviate the burden to obtain flu vaccination and focus on continuing our COVID -19 vaccination efforts, the DPH said
Massachusetts withdraws School Flu Shot Mandate
Big news yesterday from ICAN:
At the Informed Consent Action Network, you are the authority over your health choices and those of your children. In a medical world manipulated by advertising and financial interests, true information is hard to find and often harder to understand. Our goal is to put the power of scientifically researched health information in your hands and to be bold and transparent in doing so, thereby enabling your medical decisions to come from tangible understanding, not medical coercion.
As of today, January 15, 2021, the Massachusetts Department of Public Health has withdrawn the mandate for all students to receive an influenza vaccine. An ICAN-funded lawsuit brought about this amazing development for all in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts.