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Former Boston Celtics and Holy Cross great Bob Cousy was honored Friday with the unveiling of a statue in Worcester, Massachusetts. The now 92-year-old Cousy, who has called Worcester home for more than 70 years, was on hand for the ceremony outside the DCU Center. “The Boston Celtics have done more, in my opinion, to further the cause of social…

Former Boston Celtics and Holy Cross great Bob Cousy is getting his own statue in Worcester. The statue outside the DCU Center is scheduled to be unveiled Friday. The now 92-year-old Cousy has called Worcester home for more than 70 years. He is expected to attend. After a successful four years at Holy Cross, the 6-foot-1 point guard played for…

The field hospital at the DCU Center in Worcester, Massachusetts is taking a hiatus as coronavirus vases drop.

The field hospital at the DCU Center in Worcester, Massachusetts is suspending operations as coronavirus cases drop across the state. Generally, Massachusetts’ coronavirus metrics have been trending downward in the past several weeks. Public health officials reported 1,508 new confirmed coronavirus cases and 30 more deaths on Sunday. The number of patients hospitalized for COVID-19 decreased to 636. The closure…

This new field hospital comes as coronavirus cases continue to surge across the state.

As it stands, more than 80,000 residents across Massachusetts are currently infected with COVID-19. After holiday gatherings and travel, the fear is that the worst is still to come.

Officials at a field hospital in Massachusetts say they are concerned as a post-holiday spike in COVID cases nears. As of the start of the new year, roughly 60 patients were being treated for coronavirus at the DCU Center in Worcester, where the director of operations says they are already seeing more volume than they ever saw last spring. “The…

Doctors worry the increased volume they’re already seeing will only get worse when the post-Christmas spike starts to hit.

The DCU Center in Worcester opened as a field hospital on Sunday and began accepting patients. Mike Manzoni has the latest report.

The DCU Center field hospital in Worcester is now open and began treating COVID-19 patients.

UMass Memorial Health Care on Sunday began treating COVID-19 patients at the field hospital the state has re-established at the DCU Center. At least five patients have arrived at the reopened hospital as of early Sunday afternoon. The hospital is currently staffed to accept up to 25 patients in its first week. At full capacity, the Worcester field hospital can…

A field hospital at the DCU Center in Worcester will begin accepting COVID-19 patients on Sunday.

The DCU Center in Worcester will reopen as a field hospital Sunday, with another field hospital planned in Lowell.

The coronavirus surge is here. Cases are spiking, Massachusetts reported 16 more high-risk cities and towns on Thursday and a new field hospital is set to open in Worcester this weekend. And Boston Mayor Marty Walsh is warning that another shutdown might be necessary if hospitalizations continue to rise. Here’s everything we know about the latest coronavirus developments in Massachusetts…

The Worcester field hospital being readied amid a second surge of COVID-19 will have “a lot more capacity” than it did when it was active in the spring, Massachusetts Gov. Charlie Baker said Thursday morning, and it will be ready to take patients Sunday. Baker also announced he will have more to say soon about plans to establish a field...

Massachusetts Gov. Charlie Baker toured the field hospital that’s been rebuilt at Worcester’s DCU Center and announced that a second field hospital will be built in the state soon.

Mass. Gov. Charlie Baker announces a new COVID-19 field hospital opening in Lowell, after touring another field hospital at the DCU Center in Worcester.

With cases continuing to climb in the second surge of the coronavirus crisis, the Massachusetts National Guard is helping to get a field hospital in Worcester up and running by this weekend. Members of the National Guard are on site of the DCU Center on Monday to complete the field hospital’s infrastructure. The 240-bed facility, run by UMass Memorial...

As COVID-19 cases continue to increase in Worcester, Massachusetts, officials are preparing to reopen the field hospital at the DCU Center. “Our trends are not positive, and Worcester is not in a good place right now, as it relates to COVID cases,” said Worcester City Manager Ed Augustus. Augustus is trying to get the message through to people that the…

With COVID-19 cases on the rise, the DCU Center in Worcester is getting ready to open again as a field hospital.