Face Covering Guidance On Monday, the Baker-Polito Administration announced that Massachusetts will lift all remaining COVID-19 restrictions and rescind the state’s face covering order effective May 29. The Department of Public Health will issue...
This week marks the grand opening of the first independent comprehensive trans healthcare center nationwide: “Transhealth Northampton”! Dallas Ducar, one of HOCC’s Board members, is the founding CEO of Transhealth Northampton. Transhealth Northampton (THNH)was...
We Want You To Know: The CDC reports, “More Time Needed to Assess Data and Risks on Johnson & Johnson Vaccine Pause.” The advisory committee for the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention met...
We Want You to Know: Yesterday the CDC and the FDA have recommended vaccine providers to pause on administering the J&J vaccine As of April 12, nearly seven (7) million J&J doses have been...
Stress and uncertainty in our lives today has negatively impacted everything and has turned most things upside down. Current top stressors for U.S. adults, driven by economic instability and societal division, include inflation/rising cost of...
The Cambridge Health Alliance (CHA) steps up this week and shares an essential message to start an open and honest vaccine conversation. Please take a moment to listen to CHA providers talk about our...
We Want You To Know: Key Things to Know About COVID-19 Fact: Your best protection from COVID-19 is a combination of knowing all you can about COVID-19, knowing the science-based facts, wearing a mask,...
OMH Announces Theme for National Minority Health Month: #VaccineReady The HHS Office of Minority Health (OMH) has selected Vaccine Ready as this year’s NMHM theme. The COVID-19 pandemic has had a disproportionate impact on...
COVID-19 vaccines are effective at protecting you from getting sick. Based on what the CDC reports about COVID-19 vaccines, people who have been fully vaccinated can start to do some things that they had...
Based on the CDC recommendations: It’s important to know “What’s Changed” if you’ve been fully vaccinated and “What Hasn’t Changed” for now, if you’ve been fully vaccinated. To be “fully” vaccinated What’s Changed? If...