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'In The Teeth Of The Surge': Coronavirus Cases Rising In Worcester

While many areas in Massachusetts seem to have already experienced their COVID-19 surges, Worcester is now seeing a high number of cases.

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Massachusetts Is Not Out Of The Coronavirus Surge Yet, According To The...

Senior State House Reporter Steve Brown joined WBUR's All Things Considered to talk about the latest coronavirus-related news in Massachusetts.

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Cambridge-Based Moderna's Vaccine Is Advancing

Moderna Therapeutics' vaccine candidate, mRNA-1273, will soon begin Phase 2 of development.

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Mass. Virus Cases Have Jumped From 28 To Over 74,000 In Just 2 Months

For an update on the pandemic, WBUR's Morning Edition was joined by Commonhealth's Carey Goldberg. 

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Cape Cod Healthcare Furloughs Hundreds Of Workers

The hospital group announced that it is furloughing about 600 workers, or 10% of its labor force, because of “historic” financial losses caused by the coronavirus pandemic.

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Where’s The Money? A Dispute Boils Between Doctors, Hospitals And Health...

As the intense focus on preparing for the COVID-19 surge shifts, there’s mounting anger from providers directed at insurance companies. Insurers say their finances are also precarious.

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Summer Heat Could Slow Coronavirus Spread But Only Modestly, Harvard And MIT...

The projections suggest that social distancing and other measures to fight the coronavirus will be needed through summer and beyond.

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Worcester Leaders Say Coronavirus Measures Allow City To 'Do Wonders' For...

The most recent round of testing found just four people with the coronavirus -- or 7% of the 59 people staying at the city's emergency adult shelter, city leaders say. 

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Feds Shift Distribution Of COVID-19 Drug After Confusion Among Hospitals

Massachusetts General Hospital officials will receive some of the drug, remdesivir. But other major hospitals, including Brigham and Women’s, Beth Israel and Boston Medical Center, will not.

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Feds Announce New Distribution Plan For COVID-19 Drug

Massachusetts General Hospital and three smaller hospitals were in the first round of allocations, leaving out some major institutions treating hundreds of patients.

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'It Just Broke Me': Health Workers Struggle For Time To Grieve Patients Lost...

Clinicians on the front lines of the pandemic have to handle the grief of many deaths while tending to other patients that still need their care. For many, it’s a struggle to manage those emotions; for...

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Mass. Hit A Plateau In New Virus Cases Last Week, But Numbers Still Raise...

Dr. David Hamer, a professor of global health and medicine at Boston University and an infectious disease specialist at Boston Medical Center, joined WBUR's Morning Edition for a weekly update on the...

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Gov.'s Reopening Task Force Report Due In A Week

To help make sense of the good and the bad, Bostonomix reporter Callum Borchers joined Morning Edition. 

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The State Wanted Someone With Health Care Experience To Oversee Soldiers'...

Could an executive director of veterans’ homes and housing have mitigated the coronavirus outbreak at the state-run homes? Massachusetts lawmakers argue that's a question worth analyzing.

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Historian Draws Parallels Between The 1918 Spanish Flu And Today's...

Author and historian Kenneth C. Davis spoke with WBUR's All Things Considered about the Spanish flu that hit Boston hard in 1918 and how it compares to the coronavirus pandemic.

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Massachusetts COVID-19 Deaths Surpass 5,000

Massachusetts passed 5,000 deaths from COVID-19 on Monday.

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Race, Income, Nursing Homes: Factors Behind Why Hampden County Has The...

Hampden County has the sixth-highest rate in Massachusetts for confirmed COVID-19 cases. But it has the highest rate of deaths.

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Baker Announces Plan To Gradually Reopen State's Economy Amid Pandemic

Senior State House Reporter Steven Brown joins WBUR's All Things Considered to give the latest news from Beacon Hill on the state's coronavirus response.

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Steve Pagliuca On The Governor's Plan To Reopen Mass. Economy

Pagliuca assembled a task force of executives and healthcare leaders on behalf of the Massachusetts High Technology Council to lay the foundations of Gov. Charlie Baker's re-opening strategy.

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Baker Announces Phased Reopening Plan As Virus Cases Decrease

Joining Morning Edition to talk about all of this and more was WBUR's Anthony Brooks.

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