It’s been over 24 months in this pandemic: Almost 1.5 million Massachusetts residents have had confirmed cases of COVID-19 (and many more likely contracted it) and more than 21,000 people in the state have died from the virus. (Corrected tweet)
On Feb. 1, 2020, a UMass Boston student in his 20s who had traveled to Wuhan, China, wasAt that time, health officials told the public to keep living life.
Vaccines kept the next two surges muted — in mid-March, and then in September. But the omicron variant swept into Massachusetts at the end of fall and case counts broke records, peaking in early January 2022. Compared to two years ago, access to certain types of masks and testing tools has expanded. Health experts nowwearing an N95, KN95 or KF94 mask when in public. Rapid home tests are on the market — though sometimes hard to find and expensive.
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