With coronavirus infection rates rising in Mass., hospitals prepare for another wave
As COVID-19 cases tick up in Massachusetts, no one is eyeing the numbers more keenly than the hospital leaders who will have to respond to a second surge. Hospitals officials are watching the case counts daily, with memories still fresh of legions of sick people filling wards in the spring.

The number of people hospitalized with COVID-19 around the state remains low, but has been inching up in certain places in the past couple of weeks. So, too, has the rate of positive COVID-19 tests reported statewide. And any increase in cases in the community will eventually reach the hospital doors.

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