As she walked into Planned Parenthood on Commonwealth Avenue at the start of her sophomore year of college, a 2022 Boston University alum said she felt a sense of relief.
“I knew that it would be over soon and that I could put the situation behind me, and I was lucky,” she said.
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The state’s Black and Latinx populations each suffered 10 percent more COVID-19 cases in the first half of 2020 and saw a death rate three times that of white residents.
The City of Cambridge has decided to remain in Step 1 of Phase 3 of reopening, despite some Massachusetts cities with similar COVID-19 rates moving into the next step Monday.
When BU announced its LfA approach to the Fall semester — a hybrid model that saw some students return to campus and others study remotely — it told students who returned that they could opt out of in-person learning and choose to attend from afar at any time.
This decrease in risk comes as winter brings an end to mosquito season. This year, Massachusetts has seen 12 cases of EEE in humans, of which four patients died.
Two Massachusetts children have died from flu-related complications in the first week of February, while just one child died from the virus in the state last year.
The family of a 7-year-old boy who drowned at a Boston beach sued the Commonwealth of Massachusetts Tuesday, claiming that the state did not do enough to enforce safety procedures that could have prevented the boy’s death.
Regulations for the cultivation and distribution of recreational, adult-use marijuana in Massachusetts were finalized by the Cannabis Control Commission Friday, ahead of their March 15 deadline.
