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WORCESTER — The Civic Center Commission voted Thursday to start charging UMass Memorial Health Care rent for the use of the DCU Center as a COVID-19 field hospital.  Commissioners Thursday said they have been incredibly supportive of the arrangement that allowed UMass for the second time to erect a field hospital at the DCU Center, but noted that the facility has suffered staggering losses due to the pandemic, and thought it was fair to start charging rent. City Manager Edward M. Augustus, however, confirmed in a statement Thursday evening that despite the vote by the commission to gradual...

UMass Memorial Health Care to start paying rent for COVID field hospital at Worcester DCU Center Updated Jan 22, 2021; UMass Memorial Health Care has agreed to start paying full rent for space it’s using at the Worcester DCU Center to run a COVID-19 field hospital. The Central Massachusetts health care system first ran a field hospital there last spring during the initial surge of the pandemic. When case counts rose again in the fall, the field hospital reopened and started treating patients in December. In November, the Civic Center Commission voted to allow UMass Memorial to use the spac...

Fox News medical contributor Dr. Marty Makary provides insight into President Biden’s coronavirus executive orders. Taming a ranging pandemic that has already claimed the lives of more than 400,000 Americans lies heavily in the rollout of the long-awaited COVID-19 vaccine — a process that has been slow and arduous since the emergency approval of such jabs in the U.S. But a leading physician in Massachusetts says this ongoing problem is a solvable one under freshly inaugurated President Joe Biden, citing vaccine supply "predictability" as a key point in tackling this issue.  States are c...

The U.S. Fumbled Its Early Vaccine Rollout. Will the Biden Administration Put America Back on Track? Time 1/21/2021 © Evan Jenkins for TIME An employee of Westminster Place is vaccinated on Jan. 6, 2021. On a frigid morning in January, Trudy Ronnel settled into her favorite sofa chair at the Westminster Place senior-living community in Evanston, Ill., pulled down the neckline on her red blouse and braced herself for a shot she’d anticipated for almost a year. At 92 years old, with multiple medical conditions, she spent most of 2020 fearful of contracting the COVID-19 plague that ravage...

A UMass Memorial Health Care employee involved in a riot that briefly overtook the U.S. Capitol on Wednesday no longer works there, the Worcester health care system said.