Health and community aid agencies across Central Massachusetts and just beyond have received more than $181,000 in grants from community foundations based in Fitchburg and Lowell.
The grants to 16 agencies were announced Monday by the Community Foundation of North Central Massachusetts and the Greater Lowell Community Foundation, whose combined Nashoba Valley Community Healthcare Fund provides annual funding to organizations, municipalities and agencies in 13 communities from Bolton to Westford to Ashby.
This year s recipients:
$20,000 to Framingham-based Advocates for its Supporting the Mental Health Needs of Local Seniors program
$20,000 to Clear Path for Veterans-New England in Devens for a brain neural mapping program and integrated health and wellness program for veterans
Dr. Peter Hotez s battle against the anti-science confederacy is a lifetime in the making
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Steve Gonzales, Houston Chronicle / Staff photographer
The antivaccine movement taught vaccine researcher Peter Hotez not to ignore conspiracy theories, no matter how scientifically unfounded. But in late spring of 2020, the virulence of the made-up stories he began hearing about COVID-19 astounded him.
One hoax held that Bill Gates had created the new coronavirus to force all Americans to be vaccinated with eensy devices that would create a sci-fi global-surveillance network. Another said that the launch of a 5G network in Wuhan, China, had spawned the virus. Some people claimed, falsely, that Gates, Hotez and Dr. Anthony Fauci stood to get rich off patents related to the COVID vaccine.