"It's always helpful to have transparency in reporting data … Especially when we're dealing with people's health and safety, and when people are dying."
COVID
CORONAVIRUS PANDEMIC COULD CAUSE TROUBLED MASS COLLEGES TO CLOSE
From unique hurdles for New England institutions, to enrollment crises on the international and domestic fronts, to preexisting existential challenges, coronavirus may spell the end for some colleges and universities.
COVID-19 STREAMS: SOULFUL LOCKDOWNS, VIRTUAL ALBUM RELEASES & REMIXES
“There’s no playbook for how we deal with this as entertainers ... All I can do is try to continue to entertain in whatever way that I possibly can."
AN MBTA BUS DRIVER GETS BACK ON THE ROAD AFTER A TWO-WEEK QUARANTINE
“We should only be able to have seven passengers on the bus so they can keep that amount of distance between them. But that is not happening.”
HARVARD AND MIT MUST HELP THEIR WORKERS AND AREA HOMELESS NOW
Institutions with more wealth than many nations have no excuse for inaction during a pandemic
THE DYSFUNCTIONAL MASS PAROLE BOARD’S INEVITABLE CORONAVIRUS CRISIS
“Most prisons and many jails have done very little to reduce the population density that puts both incarcerated people and staff at grave risk.”
CAMBRIDGE TEMPORARY HOMELESS SHELTER OPENS DAY LATE AFTER TESTING MANDATE
A temporary homeless shelter opened Saturday night at the War Memorial Recreation Center in Mid-Cambridge—after two weeks before city councillors and a day late after a last-minute change requiring guests to test negative for COVID-19. Results from tests at the city’s warming center for the homeless Thursday did not arrive until Saturday afternoon.
VIRTUAL ENTERTAINMENT: A STORY OF ONE ZOOM PARTY
With the rapid spread of a grim pandemic, many are locked inside houses and apartments, consigned to quarantine and social distancing. But we are social creatures. We miss our family, friends, and beloved ones. We want to see and talk to them. Wachter, Hanbury, and Le had that motivation in mind.
EVAN GREER ON MAKING MUSIC, CHANGE, AND YOUR BED DURING THE PANDEMIC
“People might expect me in this moment to write some anthem railing against capitalism and authoritarian government surveillance or whatever, but what I had in me was a love song.”
NOTES FROM THE PANDEMIC: 4.19.20 DIGBOSTON UPDATE
COVID Photos: Courage & Compassion, from Dorchester to the North Shore