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The many COVID-19 variants that have been spreading around the globe and here in Massachusetts could have ramifications for the state's economic reopening and vaccination efforts, but first the Bay State needs to get a better snapshot of how prevalent these mutants are, experts told lawmakers Tuesday. The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has identified five unique mutations of the COVID-19 virus as "variants of concern," meaning there's evidence that these circulating strains could be more contagious, cause more severe disease, or blunt the efficacy of treatments and vaccines. ...

Vaccine Rollout in Massachusetts Continues Its Rocky Pace Taking Shots Rob Whitten, executive director of the Leavitt Family Jewish Home, gets vaccinated in January. For the public, the process has been thornier. February was the month all seniors in Massachusetts would finally be able to get the COVID-19 vaccine. Instead, it was a month of frustration. “It’s simply inexcusable, in a state with the healthcare infrastructure and high-tech reputation we have, that the vaccine rollout was allowed to fall behind every other state so quickly,” state Sen. Eric Lesser told BusinessWest, calli...

The 45-year-old man’s case has drawn attention from researchers about the potential role similar scenarios could have played in the emergence of new coronavirus variants.

2021-02-03 15:05:40 GMT2021-02-03 23:05:40(Beijing Time) Xinhua English Video Player Close WASHINGTON, Feb. 3 (Xinhua) -- An infectious disease physician has said she fears another surge of COVID-19 infections in the United States as new variants of the coronavirus are discovered across the country. "If I encounter a person who has one of these variants, I'm much more likely to catch the infection from them, and then also, in turn, I'm much more likely to transmit it, which means we might have a lot more infections," Dr. Nahid Bhadelia, associate professor at the Boston University Scho...

Dr. Nahid Bhadelia explains why she anticipates another surge of Covid infections as the new variants of the virus appear across the U.S.