Coronavirus pandemic in new england

A year into the coronavirus pandemic, Americans are painfully aware that overcoming the scourge is a marathon, not a sprint. Enter Dave McGillivray, who knows a thing or two about endurance events — and logistics. The race director of the Boston Marathon, which is on hold until fall, has been tapped by the state of Massachusetts to run mass vaccination…

Rates of new employees getting COVID-19 have been dropping steadily at UMass Memorial Medical Center.

The site plans to begin with 300 vaccinations a day and build up to 5,000 vaccinations a day as more people become eligible.

N.H. Gov. Chris Sununu lowered the minimum age for receiving a vaccine from 75 to 65, a change that will take effect later this week.

Starting this week, New Hampshire residents 65 and older will be able to register for the COVID-19 vaccine. “It’s exciting for us because we want to see our grandchildren, we want some normalcy, and this is a step in that direction,” Woodworth said. Thanks to the recent vaccine rollout changes in New Hampshire, 65-year-old Donald Woodworth and his wife, Nancy,…

Authorities are asking people to stay home for the holidays in the hopes of avoiding another spike in COVID-19 cases, like the one after Thanksgiving.

The wait was a couple hours at times as people took advantage of extended hours of testing in Revere.