By Anissa Gardizy, Globe Correspondent
Welcome back to Coronavirus Now, a regular newsletter to inform, educate, and prepare. Today we report on the charges facing Holyoke Soldiers' Home officials and a COVID-19 cluster at Brigham and Women’s Hospital.
Explore the entirety of our coverage at globe.com/coronavirus. Anissa can be reached at [email protected] or @anissagardizy8 on Twitter.
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Fenway Park was empty Thursday night for the last home game of the year. (John Tlumacki/Globe Staff)
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Sept. 25, 2020
What you need to know today
- Worldwide and nationwide (per Johns Hopkins University)
- Worldwide confirmed cases: 32,386,999 (up 324,817 from yesterday*)
- Worldwide deaths: 985,226 (up 5,525 from yesterday*)
- Worldwide recoveries: 22,286,196 (up 228,928 from yesterday*)
- US confirmed cases: 7,019,232 (up 52,129 from yesterday*)
- US deaths: 203,429 (up 871 from yesterday*)
- Countries/regions affected thus far: 188
- Massachusetts:
- 9,160 deaths among confirmed cases (up 10 from yesterday)
- 127,317 confirmed cases (up 454 from yesterday)
- Total tests
- Molecular (PCR): 2,160,250 (15,854 newly reported tests since yesterday)
- Antigen: 124,547 (1,593 newly reported tests since yesterday)
- Antibody: 119,449 (285 newly reported tests since yesterday)
- Read more about Massachusetts' latest numbers.
- Rhode Island:
- 1,107 deaths (up 1 from yesterday)
- 24,181 confirmed cases (up 119 from yesterday)
- Total tests completed: 727,469 (10,422 newly reported tests since yesterday)
- Maine:
- 140 deaths (up 0 from yesterday)
- 5,235 confirmed cases (up 20 from yesterday)
- Total tests completed: 405,850 (up 6,422 from yesterday)
- New Hampshire (as of Sept. 24)
- 438 deaths (up 0 from Wednesday)
- 8,044 confirmed cases (up 37 from Wednesday)
- Vermont:
- 58 deaths (up 0 from yesterday)
- 1,731 confirmed cases (up 7 from yesterday)
- Connecticut:
- 4,501 deaths (up 2 from yesterday)
- 56,587 confirmed and probable cases (up 115 from yesterday)
*Increases each day are calculated from the time this newsletter was sent the previous day.
Two Holyoke Soldiers’ Home officials face charges: The former superintendent and medical director of the Holyoke Soldiers' Home are both facing criminal charges in connection with the COVID-19 outbreak at the facility that killed at least 76 veterans. Bennett Walsh, the former superintendent, and Dr. David Clinton were indicted Thursday on 10 criminal neglect charges each, according to Attorney General Maura Healey's office.
Brigham working to contain cluster of COVID-19 cases: In two of its medical-surgical units, there has been an outbreak of COVID-19 that apparently occurred as “battle-weary” staffers let their guard down. Hospital officials believe the outbreak was triggered by either a patient or an employee who interacted last week.
- The Boston hospital has identified eight patients and 11 employees infected in the cluster, and said it expects that number to grow as contact tracing continues.
Providence College extends remote learning for another week: Following an outbreak that has affected more than 200 students, Providence College noted that some people, including state legislators, have called for the college to remain on remote instruction for the rest of the fall semester.
Federal judge rules that the state’s ban on evictions can stand, but not indefinitely | By Tim Logan
- The ban was passed by the Legislature in the depths of the state’s COVID-19 outbreak in April.
Around the region and beyond:
- Workers at Stop & Shop will receive retroactive pandemic pay to acknowledge their role during the COVID-19 pandemic.
- Despite spread of coronavirus, Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis lifted all restrictions on restaurants and other businesses on Friday.
Sports update:
- Welcome to the 2020 fall high school sports season, where field hockey coaches don backpack sprayers filled with gallons of sanitizer to clean hockey balls and cones.
Stories to make you smile:
- Coping with the pandemic, one step at a time, by walking it off | By Kevin Paul Dupont
- (By the way, Kevin has a fast walking pace of around 13 minutes per mile)
- Globe contributor Alex Beam asks: Is all of America taking the edge off by getting 'blissed out' on CBD?
- It’s natural to mourn the lost rhythms of daily life, but gratitude helps us move forward. Here’s how.
- It may be fall, but the chance to have a beer outdoors on the Greenway isn’t over yet thanks to Trillium Brewing Co.
- And while you're at it, raise a glass of Samuel Adams' "When There Are Nine" IPA, which has been relaunched in honor of the late Ruth Bader Ginsburg.
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Sept. 28
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Sept. 29
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Sept. 29
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Oct. 1-12
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