Coronavirus

United States Senator Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) joined Senator Sherrod Brown (D-OH), Ranking Member of the Senate Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs, Congresswoman Maxine Waters (D-CA), Chairwoman of the House Committee on Financial Services, and Congressman Denny Heck (D-WA) in announcing the Emergency Rental Assistance and Rental Market Stabilization …

Massachusetts Coronavirus Update On May 10, the Massachusetts Public Health Department reported that the state added 1,050 more positive cases of COVID-19 bringing to total to 77,793. This is a decrease from Saturday’s 1,410 reported cases and a drop for the fourth straight day. 139 new COVID-19 related deaths were …

Chris Lisinski State House News Service Groups that work with domestic violence survivors warned Friday that a federal judge’s order allowing gun retailers to reopen during the pandemic “may further jeopardize the personal safety of victims of abuse.” In a joint statement, Jane Doe Inc. Executive Director Debra Robbin and …

Massachusetts Coronavirus Update On May 9, the Massachusetts Public Health Department reported that the state added 1,410 more positive cases of COVID-19 bringing to total to 76,743. This is a decrease from Friday’s 1,612 reported cases. 138 new COVID-19 related deaths were reported on Saturday bringing the total deaths in …

In partnership with the Mass League of Community Health Centers, the Baker-Polito Administration today announced an upcoming new COVID-19 public awareness campaign, “New Tools, New Rules – Same Great Care.” Community Health Centers throughout the Commonwealth are open and accepting patients, and this campaign encourages residents to continue to seek …

The following is attributed to FDA Commissioner Stephen M. Hahn, M.D. and Jeff Shuren, M.D., director of FDA’s Center for Devices and Radiological Health The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has issued the first emergency use authorization (EUA) for a COVID-19 antigen test, a new category of tests for use …

New Bedford officials reported one more COVID-19 related deaths since yesterday or 11 deaths since last Saturday bringing the total to 30 in the city. Mayor Jon Mitchell’s office reported 98 additional confirmed COVID-19 cases in New Bedford on Saturday, bringing the total positive cases in the city to 1,042, …

Massachusetts Coronavirus Update On May 8, the Massachusetts Public Health Department reported that the state added 1,612 more positive cases of COVID-19 bringing to total to 75,333. This is a decrease from Thursday’s 1,696 reported cases. 150 new COVID-19 related deaths were reported on Friday bringing the total deaths in …

Colin A. Young State House News Service The numbers that state health officials report each day keep going up and up and up. The number of people tested for the coronavirus, the number of people who have been diagnosed with COVID-19, the number of people who have been killed by …

Today, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration authorized the first diagnostic test with the option of using home-collected saliva samples for COVID-19 testing. Specifically, the FDA issued an emergency use authorization (EUA) to Rutgers Clinical Genomics Laboratory for their COVID-19 laboratory developed test (LDT), which had been previously added to …