In the shadow of the frontline: USPS worker Yesenia Santiago survived COVID then lost her home in a fire but in spite of everything shows up each day
Updated Jan 25, 2021;
Posted Jan 12, 2021
Yesenia Santiago prepares her mail for delivery at the USPS center in Springfield. The workload for postal workers in 2020 has increased with unpresidented numbers of people relying on post due to the pandemic. (Douglas Hook / MassLive)
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Yesenia Santiago, a United States Postal Service city carrier assistant has endured more than most after not only contracting COVID-19 but also losing her home in December. Regardless, she comes into work in Springfield to deliver mail, literally singing each morning as she arrives.
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New More Contagious Coronavirus Likely In Massachusetts, But Can Be Contained, Say Local Epidemiologists
A medical assistant puts on PPE at the NEW Health Charlestown at the Crossroads Resource Center in Boston on Oct. 5, 2020.
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New More Contagious Coronavirus Likely In Mass.
A new more highly contagious strain of the coronavirus, first identified in the United Kingdom, is spreading in the United States Last week Texas, Pennsylvania and Connecticut announced they had detected the new strain, joining California, Colorado, Florida, Georgia, and New York.
And while the Massachusetts Department of Public Health said on Monday that no labs in the state had detected evidence of variant strains yet, Gov. Charlie Baker has said that his administration is assuming the more contagious mutation is already here.
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Many independently-owned doctors offices say they don t have access to COVID-19 vaccines and have heard little from the federal or state governments about if or when they might receive doses.
Hospitals, large retail pharmacies, and federally-qualified health centers are the main distributors of the vaccine, sources told Insider.
So far, they ve vaccinated nearly 9 million individuals in the US, according to the Centers for Disease Control. That s 11 million people less than the federal government s estimate of 20 million vaccinated Americans by the end of 2020.
Many healthcare professionals criticized the federal government s vaccine distribution strategy, saying it was short-sighted and goes against the principles of public health.
Gillette Stadium in Foxborough will be the state's first mass-vaccination center, joining smaller sites that dot Massachusetts, Gov. Charlie Baker said in Worcester on Tuesday.