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Cold and flu season will soon be upon us. This year, there are vaccines for all three of the major viruses that tend to make people sick: COVID, flu and RSV. (via Getty Images)

COVID has been rising and flu is coming. Here’s what you need to know about respiratory virus season in Mass.

The start of fall marks the beginning of respiratory virus season. COVID has been on an upswing for much of the past couple months — and other viruses, including flu and RSV, are still to come.

The Parker River Refuge marshlands in Newbury. (Jesse Costa/WBUR)

Mass. conservationists welcome executive order to protect biodiverse lands and waters

Q&A: Ashish Jha on the coming virus season and what he learned in the White House

Mass. board of education approves first health curriculum update since 1999

Want to get the new COVID vaccine in Massachusetts? Here's some advice from the experts

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Since mid-July, workers at Logan Airport have helped more than 1,600 migrants. (Gabrielle Emanuel/WBUR)

'We started getting just planes of people': Logan Airport team scrambles to help newly arrived migrants

Each night, workers at Logan Airport provide cots for travelers with canceled flights. But lately, they’re also providing temporary beds for immigrants seeking refuge in Massachusetts. Since July 11, Logan’s...

Health

05:26Sep 18, 2023

An entrance to Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center in Boston. (Steven Senne/AP)

Dana-Farber partners with Beth Israel to announce plans for new cancer hospital

The new collaboration centers on a push by Dana-Farber to offer inpatient treatment in a space of its own, as opposed to its current practice of sending patients to neighboring...

Health

Sep 14, 2023

Sherisse Salter (left) and Angalena Negron distribute meals at Elmwood Gardens in Manchester with New Hampshire Hunger Solutions. They worked to expand participation in summer meals sites in the city. (Kate Dario/NHPR)

N.H. seeing sharp increase in food insecurity because of inflation, end of pandemic aid

Advocates in the field say many of New Hampshire’s most vulnerable households are trapped in a double bind these days: Continued inflation is pushing the prices of essentials like groceries...

Local Coverage

Sep 12, 2023

Workers in Boston prepare to blast the surface of the asphalt, in a 2022 project to minimize the heat absorbed and increase the heat reflected from the road surface. (Jesse Costa/WBUR)

New England workers face extra hazards from heat and few specific workplace protections

Both indoor and outdoor workers are vulnerable to extreme heat, and specific standards for worker protections on hot days are not codified in law.

Environment

Sep 8, 2023

Pins mark the home states of patients who've come to the Brookline clinic for an abortion since the Dobbs decision a year ago. (Robin Lubbock/WBUR)

Study: More patients traveled to Mass. for abortions after Supreme Court Dobbs ruling

Massachusetts has seen a small but significant increase in people traveling to the state for an abortion since the Supreme Court allowed states to limit access to or ban the...

Health

Sep 6, 2023

A hotel west of Boston that has been converted to a family shelter. (Gabrielle Emanuel/WBUR)

'There wasn't any kind of warning': Towns frustrated over family shelter placements

City and town officials say it's hard to ensure families' basic needs are met without coordination from the state. State officials counter they're doing their best, but the "fast moving...

Local Coverage

Sep 6, 2023

A classroom in Boston. (Jesse Costa/WBUR)

More Boston Public School buildings will start the year with air conditioning

Boston Public School officials say they've installed roughly 3,800 window AC units at nearly 80 schools over the last two years as part of a $7 million project to keep...

Education

Sep 5, 2023

Javier stands with his mother and new baby brother. They arrived in Massachusetts in May and Javier is eager to start kindergarten. (Gabrielle Emanuel/WBUR)

As students return to classrooms, some newly arrived immigrants have to wait

The effort to vaccinate newly arrived immigrant children, enroll them in school and equip schools with translators and transportation plans has proved daunting. Even as the first day of school...

Health

05:00Sep 5, 2023

Pine Hill Cemetery, in Tewksbury, Mass., where many individuals who donate their bodies to university medical morgues are buried. (Robin Lubbock/WBUR)

Report by panel reviewing Harvard Medical School's body donor program delayed

Harvard Medical School says that a review of its body donation program, now mired in an interstate body parts theft scandal, won’t be completed until October. It was originally set...

Local Coverage

Sep 4, 2023

"It's taken 400 years to get to this level," Pocknett said, taking in the decline of Santuit Pond. "Something needs to be done."

In a Massachusetts pond, toxic algae is disrupting tribal heritage

The Santuit Pond in Mashpee was used for thousands of years by members of the Mashpee Wampanoag tribe to play, teach, bathe, hunt and conduct ceremonies. It's now unsafe to...

Environment

Sep 1, 2023