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Baker has resisted setting different rules for those who are vaccinated. New CDC guidelines may test that


Baker has resisted setting different rules for those who are vaccinated. New CDC guidelines may test that
Matt Stout
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Governor Charlie Baker
For more than a year, Governor Charlie Baker has required that masks be worn indoors and in crowds, making it one of Massachusetts’ most enduring mandates as he’s rejiggered rules on businesses, gatherings, and travel.
Then came the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s new guidance Thursday, which said fully vaccinated Americans may forgo masks in most settings.
The surprise pronouncement immediately prompted questions about whether Baker should ease Massachusetts’ rules but also how he should do it, layering in potential new complications to what’s largely been a straightforward order. ....

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Massachusetts Health Boards Overwhelmed, Unready to Protect Workers


Massachusetts Health Boards Overwhelmed, Unready to Protect Workers
By Shannon Iriarte, Shwetha Surendran and Maggie Mulvihill | May 14, 2021
With federal regulators missing from the field and state leaders scrambling to manage the COVID-19 crisis, Massachusetts’ 351 overtaxed local boards of health were unwittingly thrust into a new role last year – overseers of workplace safety.
The challenge created by forcing that responsibility on the municipal agencies, some staffed with only one or two people, may have contributed to at least one chairman’s heart attack and highlighted the fragility of the workplace-safety landscape in Massachusetts.
“It’s brutal. It’s brutal. It’s off the charts,” said Michael R. Hugo, government affairs director for the Massachusetts Association of Health Boards. “There is so much egregious behavior going on by businesses that nobody has time to do it all.” ....

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Mass. health boards overwhelmed, unready to protect workers


Mass. health boards overwhelmed, unready to protect workers
Mass. health boards overwhelmed, unready to protect workers
SHANNON IRIARTE, SHWETHA SURENDRAN AND MAGGIE MULVIHILL/The Howard Center for Investigative Journalism , The Howard Center for Investigative Journalism
May 12, 2021
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BOSTON (AP) With federal regulators missing from the field and state leaders scrambling to manage the COVID-19 crisis, Massachusetts’ 351 overtaxed local boards of health were unwittingly thrust into a new role last year overseers of workplace safety.
The challenge created by forcing that responsibility on the municipal agencies, some staffed with only one or two people, may have contributed to at least one chairman’s heart attack and highlighted the fragility of the workplace-safety landscape in Massachusetts. ....

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