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The number of NFL players who are in the COVID-19 vaccination process has reached 80%, with nine teams having 90% or more of their players in that category

Drag queen Amanda Playwith is performing again after being off stage for 16 months because of the pandemic. “I like to be near people,” she said. “I like to play with them and give them a good show.” But that requires getting up close and personal in a compact setting.So her performance venue at Jacque’s Cabaret in Boston will...

Health officials in Cambridge, Massachusetts, are urging residents to wear masks in certain situations, regardless of vaccination status, amid an uptick in COVID-19 cases. The city’s health department said new infections have jumped in July, with 83 confirmed and probable cases reported as of Tuesday. “We urge residents — vaccinated and not — to wear a mask and practice physical…

The number of new coronavirus cases has ticked up in Maine in recent weeks, but state health officials say they aren’t sounding the alarm about it yet. The state’s daily caseload had dwindled in early summer, with less than 20 new cases reported on some days in June and early July. That trend has reversed in mid-July as the...

The NFL says if a team has a coronavirus outbreak among unvaccinated players and can’t make it up in the season, they will be forced to forfeit and players will not be paid.

December 2020 marked one year since Wuhan, China, reported the world’s first cases of COVID-19. Now, life in the city is largely back to normal.

More than 5,100 Massachusetts residents have tested positive for COVID-19, despite being fully vaccinated against the virus, and at least 80 of them have died, state health officials said Tuesday night.

Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., said people should “ignore other voices that are giving demonstrably bad advice” and get vaccinated.

Coronavirus cases are on the rise again, and in recent weeks, Massachusetts has seen one of the sharpest spikes in the nation. The New York Times maintains a chart comparing trends in each state. Ranking by the increase in new cases over the last 14 days, as of Tuesday, Massachusetts was third, behind only Tennessee and Alabama. New cases in…

While COVID cases are going the wrong way, most of those getting very sick are people who have not been vaccinated. Yet that doesn’t seem to be enough of a warning to the unvaccinated community.

Two weeks after celebrating America’s near “independence” from the coronavirus, President Joe Biden is confronting the worrying reality of rising cases and deaths

As Massachusetts starts to see a small uptick in COVID infections and cases start to spike in other parts of the United States, many are wondering if there is reason to be concerned. NBC10 Boston asked several public health experts to weigh in on whether or not residents should start taking precautions.

COVID-19 cases are rising again in Massachusetts, which has some health professionals expressing concern. State health officials reported another 236 confirmed coronavirus cases — the most cases in a single day since early June — and four new deaths on Thursday. The last time Massachusetts reported more than 236 new cases in one day was on June 3. The state’s COVID…

Nearly 80 people have died with COVID-19 in Massachusetts even though they were fully vaccinated as the more contagious Delta variant continues to spread. These breakthrough cases where fully vaccinated individuals test positive for coronavirus have so far been rare, but are possible. Here’s what you need to know about breakthrough cases in Massachusetts: Public health officials have tracked 4,450…

As the more contagious Delta variant of COVID-19 continues to spread, Massachusetts health officials are looking to increase a plateauing rate of new vaccinations against the coronavirus. At a pop-up clinic in Stoughton, only seven people turned out to get vaccinated Thursday. Joel Marin said he’d been hesitant, but the clinic coming to his neighborhood helped, and so did...

Emergency approval for COVID-19 vaccines in children under 12 could come in early to midwinter, a Food and Drug Administration official said Thursday, a move that could bring relief to many parents who have been unable to vaccinate their children. The agency hopes to then move quickly to full approval of the vaccine for this age group. One sticking point…

Restaurants and other businesses are open at full capacity, many people are walking around freely without face coverings, and life in Massachusetts is returning to normal, yet health professionals are concerned about upward movement in some metrics used to measure the spread of COVID-19. The seven-day average of confirmed coronavirus cases climbed to 141 on Wednesday, up from a low…

Northeastern University will require everyone on campus this fall to be tested regularly for COVID-19, whether they have been vaccinated or not. The school, which is requiring vaccination for students, announced Tuesday that testing would be mandatory. “Starting on the week of September 6, faculty, staff, students, and vendor employees — both fully vaccinated and unvaccinated — will be required…

Provincetown, Massachusetts, has seen a “handful” of new coronavirus cases in the past few days, Town Manager Alex Morse said on Facebook Monday.

The news of a link between the Johnson & Johnson vaccine and an exceedingly rare neurological syndrome now under investigation may have some people wondering how many are at risk. That isn’t immediately clear, but the number of people who have reported Guillain-Barré Syndrome, now being investigated as a possible side effect of the single-dose J&J vaccine, is tiny....