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For about two years, UMass Amherst has been testing the wastewater on campus for COVID-19, including the outflow from dormitories.
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Massachusetts schools this week will be able to sign up to receive at-home rapid COVID-19 tests for weekly use by students and staff. The state noted a shift away from contact tracing in states like Vermont and Connecticut to a focus on at-home tests and symptomatic testing.
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An official with Worcester's water treatment facility said test on sewage can provide an early indication of where COVID-19 infections are headed.
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A public health official in Worcester said it's too soon to tell if COVID-19 cases have peaked in the city, but recent data is encouraging.
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The SARS-CoV-2 virus has been found in white-tailed deer across the country, and Massachusetts is now one of 41 states participating in a national effort to study the prevalence of the virus in deer.
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Over the most recent two-week reporting period, Massachusetts school districts say the number of students with new cases of COVID-19 increased almost two and a half times.
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Coming off one of the state's largest one-day total of confirmed COVID-19 cases, Massachusetts is closing in on a grim milestone of 20,000 deaths from the pandemic that began 21 months ago.
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Pressure is building for Gov. Charlie Baker to revisit the idea of requiring masks in all indoor public settings, regardless of vaccination status.
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Two days after the first case of the new omicron COVID-19 variant was officially confirmed in Massachusetts, the head of the state’s largest hospital…
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If every unvaccinated person in Massachusetts got their COVID-19 shots, the state's COVID-19 hospitalization rate would drop by 50%, Gov. Charlie Baker…