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January 28, 2021 The call for the federal government to make sure high-filtration masks are available for all essential workers and the general public is growing. Joseph Allen, an associate professor and the director of the Healthy Buildings program at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, penned an op-ed for The Washington Post on Tuesday, laying out the case for why “everyone” should be wearing an N95 mask at this point in the COVID-19 pandemic. Allen isn’t the only local public health expert pushing for “better masks” as the pandemic continues. His colleagues at Harvard...

Still other colleges, particularly smaller campuses, reported few if any cases throughout their semesters. Yamey and colleague Nahid Bhadelia, a professor at Boston University and director of the Special Pathogens Unit at Boston Medical Center, warned that colleges should prepare to be dealing with the impacts of the virus through 2021. In a recent story for Time magazine, they recommended colleges employ measures such as frequent testing of all students; plenty of isolation and quarantine rooms for those infected or exposed to the virus; and social distancing on campus and the classro...

As COVID-19 cases surge, doctors are divided over changing vaccine dosages to reach more people Deanna Pan © Jessica Rinaldi/Globe Staff Jack Cederberg, a University of Rhode Island student pharmacist working for CVS, administered the Pfizer vaccine to Nancy Colonero, 103, a resident of Beaumont Rehabilitation and Skilled Nursing Center in Westborough. As hospitalizations and deaths from the pandemic soar, and frustrations mount over the slow rollout of COVID-19 vaccines, public health experts remain divided on how best to inoculate as many Americans as quickly as possible,...

Paper checks for those who need them will start being sent out Wednesday, Mnuchin said. These payments — up to $600 for individuals, $1200 for married couples and up to $600 for each child — are the second wave of funds paid directly to Americans to help with the economic hit from the pandemic, CNBC's Amanda Macias reports. The House passed a bill to increase the direct payments to $2,000 for each individual, but the Senate has yet to take a vote on it. Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell introduced a bill Tuesday that would address the direct payment boost, but also included items on ...

(in) the U.S., our capacity hasn't been spectacular," Dr. Nahid Bhadelia, the medical director of the Special Pathogens Unit at Boston Medical Center, told . "If the strain is here, we might just be missing it because the holes in our net are too wide," Bhadelia said. The new variant, which first emerged in the U.K., has not been detected in the U.S., according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. But a smaller sample of virus sequences — a process through which labs detect virus variations — means the new mutation could already be present in the country without having been...