The COVID emergency is expiring in Massachusetts. What happens now?
State drops mask mandate in hospitals, rapid antigen tests not covered by insurance. But not everything’s changing.
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State drops mask mandate in hospitals, rapid antigen tests not covered by insurance. But not everything’s changing.
Labor challenges across the health care landscape feature as one of the primary areas of attention for the Health Policy Commission this year, and industry leaders and business groups suggested Wednesday that the problem is potent enough to cut across the rest of the regulatory agency's priorities.
Labor challenges across the health care landscape feature as one of the primary areas of attention for the Health Policy Commission this year, and industry leaders and business groups suggested Wednesday that the problem is potent enough to cut across the rest of the regulatory agency's priorities.
Our response to the pandemic has created an opportunity to transform this movement into a larger push for rights for all.
For weeks now, Mary McDarby has lived in vaccine limbo. Her husband qualified for the coronavirus vaccine more than two months ago. Because he has later-stage emphysema, though, his lungs cannot tolerate cold air. Even the short distance between the parking lot and the door of a vaccine clinic could pose a threat. The other option, bringing the vaccine to him, also has proved impossible. For McDarby, the silence from officials has left her feeling abandoned. âI thought, thereâs gotta be a lot of disabled people in our situation,â she said. âBut, I canât find any infor...