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Mass. health boards overwhelmed, unready to protect workers Mass. health boards overwhelmed, unready to protect workers SHANNON IRIARTE, SHWETHA SURENDRAN AND MAGGIE MULVIHILL/The Howard Center for Investigative Journalism , The Howard Center for Investigative Journalism May 12, 2021 FacebookTwitterEmail BOSTON (AP) — 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 forci...

Yarmouth fire Lt. Chris McMahon pulled into the parking lot of Harwich Port Community Health Center around 8:30 Tuesday morning. He was there to pick up dozens and dozens of doses of Johnson & Johnson’s COVID-19 vaccine, which he planned to distribute among five, two-person vaccination teams, each consisting of a paramedic and an EMT.  Armed with the single-dose shots, the teams were scheduled to fan out across town Tuesday to vaccinate about 60 homebound residents. By week’s end, McMahon said, all of Yarmouth's roughly 170 homebound residents would have been fully vaccinated with J...

. WASHINGTON — Variants of the coronavirus are increasingly defining the next phase of the pandemic in the United States, taking hold in ever-greater numbers and eliciting pleas for a change in strategy against the outbreak, according to government officials and experts tracking developments. The highly transmissible B.1.1.7 variant that originated in the United Kingdom now accounts for 27% of all cases in this country. It is the most common variant in the United States, Rochelle Walensky, director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, said Wednesday — a development that ...

More cases, more deaths per capita in states run by Republicans. By Bruce Thompson - Apr 7th, 2021 02:45 pm //end headline wrapper ?> 2019 Novel Coronavirus. Image by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. In the United States, the response to the COVID-19 pandemic has often followed political party lines. The latest example is the hostile reaction to proposals to issue certificates that would allow individuals to document that they received the vaccine, once again demonstrating the opposition among many on the right to measures to overcome the pandemi...

Massachusetts now accounts for about a quarter of the P.1 coronavirus variant cases detected in the U.S., narrowly edging out Florida’s 55 with 58.