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Volunteers pulled a huge, headstone-like granite memorial through the streets of Hyannis and Falmouth this week in remembrance of pandemic victims worldwide.
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"This has a chilling effect," says Health Imperatives CEO Julia Kehoe. "Policies like this actually worsen health outcomes."
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Many school districts across the region lifted their mask mandates Monday. CAI talked with students, teachers and parents in Mashpee and Barnstable to find out how the day went.
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School districts around the region are voting on local mask mandates, now that the state mandate for schools is set to end February 28th.
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Cape Cod’s COVID-19 task force has endorsed the state’s decision to drop the mask mandate for schools as of Feb. 28. The task force spokesman, state Sen. Julian Cyr, said Gov. Charlie Baker’s announcement is a reasonable step, consistent with public health data.
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Ten people were in intensive care this week on Cape Cod as the Omicron variant continues to spread. This is no time to quit taking precautions, said Sean O'Brien, the Barnstable County health director.
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Two years into the pandemic and the Martha's Vineyard Hospital still has not reported one death from COVID-19.
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Officials say cases are starting to show a downward trend. Meanwhile, Cape Cod Healthcare is introducing new outpatient treatments for COVID-19.
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Provincetown residents this week joined the first in a series of support-group discussions about the pandemic's effect on their mental health.
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Local schools are struggling with the recent record-setting peak of COVID transmission.About a fifth of students at the Monomoy and Falmouth school districts have been absent, and nearly 300 students were out at Barnstable schools.