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Cynthia McCormick Cape Cod Times More than 10 employees and residents have tested positive for COVID-19 at Maplewood at Mayflower Place in recent days, Bruce Murphy, health director for the town of Yarmouth, said Friday. Most of the cases have occurred in vaccinated individuals who have not fallen seriously ill, he said. “Right now, it’s just been a mild illness.” The nursing home cases coincide with a spate of positive, but also mild, cases of coronavirus among vaccinated people who were tested recently at the Outer Cape Health Services office in Provincetown. “We could just be at t...

WEST YARMOUTH - An outbreak of COVID-19 cases at a West Yarmouth nursing home is spurring concerns about the resurgence of the coronavirus during the busy summer tourist season. More than 10 employees and residents have tested positive for COVID-19 at Maplewood at Mayflower Place in recent days, Bruce Murphy, health director for the town of Yarmouth, said Friday. Most of the cases have occurred in vaccinated individuals who have not fallen seriously ill, Murphy said. “Right now, it’s just been a mild illness.” The nursing home cases coincide with a spate of positive, but also mild, case...

Identical Ford twins rocket into U.S. Amateur Four-Ball match play at Chambers Bay News Tribune, Tacoma, Wash. 1 hr ago Gregg Bell, The News Tribune (Tacoma, Wash.) May 24—Chambers Bay just got overtaken by the identical Ford twins from Georgia. David Ford and fellow 18-year-old graduating high-school senior Kelly Chinn ignored cool winds up to 20 mph and combined for a 7-under par 65 at Chambers on Sunday to move their two-day stroke-play total to a tournament-best 16-under 127 at the U.S. Amateur Four-Ball Championship. They are the top duo of the 32 sides that advanced ...

Hundreds of Cape students age 12 and older have signed up for school-based COVID-19 vaccination clinics being offered over the next two weeks, local health and education officials said. Barnstable County is supplying first doses of the Pfizer vaccine for clinics in several Cape school districts, starting Thursday at Monomoy Regional High School, Barnstable County Public Health Nurse Deirdre Arvidson said. She said the county hopes to dispense 1,100 to 1,200 first doses in Cape schools between now and early June. As of Tuesday, 159 people had signed up for the Monomoy clinic, 146 for a clini...

Massachusetts Health Boards Overwhelmed, Unready to Protect Workers By Shannon Iriarte, Shwetha Surendran and Maggie Mulvihill | May 14, 2021 With federal regulators missing from the field and state leaders scrambling to manage the COVID-19 crisis, Massachusetts’ 351 overtaxed local boards of health were unwittingly thrust into a new role last year – overseers of workplace safety. The challenge created by forcing that responsibility on the municipal agencies, some staffed with only one or two people, may have contributed to at least one chairman’s hea...