Tag: COVID-19
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Slowly Getting There- The Pandemic Impact on Barbershops
15 months after limitations caused by the COVID-19 pandemic, life is beginning to feel closer to normal. Barbers across the Southcoast welcome news that Massachusetts vaccinations are increasing, positive COVID-19 infections are decreasing, and all restrictions have been lifted. While COVID-19 impacted many industries, a lesser reported industry suffered the brunt of preventative restrictions; barbershops…
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Visualizing Massachusetts’ Vaccination Population
Flowers are blooming, sun shining, and Massachusetts lifting of COVID-19 restrictions gives us a sense that a typical summer returns. Massachusetts became a national leader due to its COVID-19 response and vaccine rollout. Each week, the Massachusetts Department of Health releases a COVID-19 Dashboard, a document consisting of 52 pages that relays information to the…
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Overcoming COVID-19 in the Classroom
Many educators across the country could not fathom how the Coronavirus would impact schools. Since March of 2020, 48 states closed all of their schools, millions of students became digital students over night, and educators morale has plummeted. When schools shut down, students lost crucial services such as nutrition, special education resources, and most importantly…