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Updated on January 18, 2021 at 5:59 pm
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Dr. Katherine Gergen Barnett with Boston Medical Center says it may not even be the first case.
“The fact that we just identified it yesterday in Massachusetts doesn’t mean that this is our first case, Gergen Barnett said. I think that likely we have had this circulating in our population for a few weeks.”
Public health officials have said the woman infected with the new strain first identified in the U.K. is in her early 20s.
She’s a Boston resident who flew back from the U.K. on Jan. 3, with a two-hour layover at Logan Airport, before traveling on to another state where she has remained.
Dr. Katherine Gergen Barnett on BPR | Jan. 5, 2020
Amid Rollout Fumbles, Boston Medical Center s Dr. Katherine Gergen Barnett Calls For Wartime Vaccine Prioritization
Physician Alister Martin receives the Pfizer-BioNTech coronavirus vaccine from RN Jennifer Lisciotti at Massachusetts General Hospital, Wednesday, Dec. 16, 2020, in Boston.
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Dr. Katherine Gergen Barnett on BPR | Jan. 5, 2020
Expressing frustration with “fumbles and stumbles” around COVID-19 vaccine rollout across the nation, Dr. Katherine Gergen Barnett said Tuesday on
Boston Public Radio that the lack of federal guidance and support on distribution has created massive problems for all of us in every state.”
Updated on December 11, 2020 at 11:53 am
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Facing mounting pressure in recent weeks from public health experts and municipal leaders to do more to control the dramatic increase in coronavirus cases that is stressing the health care system, Gov. Charlie Baker announced this week that Massachusetts would tighten some restrictions.
Starting Friday, hospitals across Massachusetts will be temporarily curtailing inpatient elective surgeries to make room for a further influx of patients with COVID-19.
Baker said Monday that hospitals will limit “elective procedures that can be safely postponed” in order to free up necessary staffing and beds.
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