Nationally, the test positivity rate for the week ending on February 8, was 4.8 percent, according to the CDC's most recent update on its COVID Data Tracker.

MARBLEHEAD, MA — Marblehead residents are being offered free, at-home COVID-19 tests as the region deals with a surge in cases late this summer. The free tests are available to all residents at ...

When infection rates rise—or in extreme cases—a pandemic hits, it's impossible to test everyone. Time, money and resources ...

Massachusetts is seeing the highest level of the flu since before the COVID-19 pandemic, according to the Department of ...

Massachusetts scores peaked more than a decade ago after 20 years of progress, but the pandemic accelerated declines. Even partial recovery from 2022 to 2024 is very limited, only visible in ...

When infection rates rise or - in extreme cases - a pandemic hits, it's impossible to test everyone. Time, money and ...

The owner of Allen's Health Mart Pharmacy in Manchester-by-the-Sea wound up with a bogus batch of Covid tests. He said he only sold a handful of them before they caught the mistake with the help ...

The authors of the report note that some school districts, including in poorer areas, have largely recovered from Covid ...

The number of COVID-19 tests coming back positive is on the ... while Connecticut, Maine, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, Rhode Island and Vermont had a 6 percent rate, and Delaware, Maryland ...

The government will again be sending out free COVID test to American households this fall, following a rise in cases this summer and an expected seasonal rise into wintertime. While, of course ...