EASTHAMPTON As COVID-19 cases reach unprecedented levels in the current wave, communities are continuing to conduct contact tracing work for the disease, even as the infrastructure and protocols around the practice have shifted since the early days.
WORTHINGTON – For much of the pandemic, the hilltowns were spared from having large numbers of diagnosed COVID-19 cases. Now, as the omicron variant spreads across the country, the situation has changed.“It has had a real impact in terms of both our.
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Many communities scrambled to leave state mosquito spraying program
A mosquito PHOTO BY PROVIDENCE JOURNAL/TNS
Published: 6/1/2021 7:57:30 PM
During the past few months, several western Massachusetts communities have scrambled to meet a May 28 deadline to opt out of the state’s mosquito control spraying program.
Northampton became the latest municipality to opt out of the program under the State Reclamation and Mosquito Control Board (SRMCB) following in the footsteps of other towns like Amherst, Pelham, Williamsburg, Westhampton, Whately, Goshen and Greenfield.
“The Board of Health voted unanimously, recommending that the city opt out,” Northampton Public Health Director Merrideth O’Leary said.
Williamsburg backs off having drive-thru vaccinations
Stickers on hand at the Bangs Community Center in Amherst where first responders were receiving their first COVID-19 vaccinations on Tuesday, Jan. 12, 2021.
Published: 1/27/2021 8:27:35 PM
WILLIAMSBURG The town is shelving plans for a drive-thru COVID-19 vaccination site, in favor of sending residents to the vaccination site at the Northampton Senior Center through Phase 2 of the state’s vaccine rollout.
“We’re not going to do them locally at this point,” said Donna Gibson, chair of the Williamsburg Board of Health.
But both Northampton and Amherst, home to Hampshire county’s two regional vaccination sites, have been hit hard by a reduction in vaccine allotments for local health departments.