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Impossible Task? Dr. Monica Bharel Discusses Next Steps for Mass. & Cass
Bharel spoke exclusively to NBC 10 Boston’s medical reporter Kristy Lee about the city’s effort to clear the tents and what the city is doing to meet the needs of the people that live there
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Mass. Hospitals Are Stretching to Capacity, and It's Not Just From COVID
With COVID positive cases going up and new unknowns with the omicron variant spreading throughout the United States, Massachusetts hospitals are urging residents to do everything they can to stay healthy. Their emergency departments and intensive care units are already overcrowded. And officials at Boston-area hospitals said it’s not just COVID cases stretching the hospitals thin — many factors are…
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Get to Know Sport Climbing, One of the Olympics' New Events
A number of sports will make their Olympic debut in Tokyo this year, including sport climbing. Its athletes are reaching new heights.
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The Latest on COVID Variants in Massachusetts, and How to Stop Them
It’s a race against time to reach herd immunity in the United States, especially with the U.K. coronavirus variant spreading quickly here. One new study, not yet peer reviewed, shows it doubling every 10 days. Epidemiologists say it may be the dominant strain of the virus by March. But even more worrisome is the variant from South Africa, said...
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62-Hour ‘Grace to the Finish' Rowing Marathon Underway For Holy Cross Athlete Killed in Crash
Two weeks before Grace Rett died, she set an indoor rowing world record. On Saturday, her College of Holy Cross teammates kicked off a rowing marathon called “G.R.A.C.E. to the finish” — the event is serving as a virtual fundraiser, one year to the day after Rett embarked on that record-breaking rowing session of 62 hours and 3 seconds....
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Brigham and Women's Researchers Testing Moderna's Vaccine Candidate
Anthony Shivers is volunteering to be a part of what could be medical history. Shivers is enrolled in the final-phase study for the vaccine candidate from Moderna, based in Cambridge, Massachusetts. “If you’re going to fight something,” he said, “have something to fight with.” Dr. Lindsey Baden is the lead investigator of the study at Brigham and Women’s Hospital,...
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No Post-Protest Coronavirus Spike in Mass. Yet, But Doctors Warn Numbers May Still Rise
It’s been more than two weeks since large protests began in Boston in the wake of George Floyd’s death. Huge crowds of people in close proximity have raised concerns about a potential spike in coronavirus cases. But so far, that has not happened. “We continue to see a very small number of patients who even have any type of...
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‘A Lot of Fear': Fighting Cancer During COVID-19 Pandemic
Imagine for weeks having to go into the hospital five days a week for cancer radiation and chemotherapy during the height of the coronavirus surge. For most patients, treatment cannot wait and their immunitiy is compromised at a time when they need it most. Steve Sfameni talked with NBC10 Boston’s Kristy Lee about what it has been like to...
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Boston Researchers Find That Vaccines Protect Against Coronavirus, at Least in Monkeys
Two new studies led by researchers at Boston’s Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center have shown that coronavirus antibodies provide immunity in laboratory monkeys. The studies were published Wednesday in the journal Science. In one study, researchers infected 35 adult rhesus macaque monkeys with the new coronavirus, known as SARS-CoV-2. Twenty-five of them had been given potential vaccines, according to a…
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Lifting the Lockdown: What Will the New Normal Look Like?
When the lockdown is lifted, what will your new normal be as we wait for a coronavirus vaccine? To find out, NBC10 Boston talked to medical experts, and to a woman who’s already lived a socially distanced life for years. The new normal forced by COVID-19 is nothing new for Dr. Mary Ann Wilmarth. “So basically, the world has...
