BOSTON – The director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention will enroll Governor Charlie Baker at her Tuesday afternoon press conference, just one day, warned of an “imminent catastrophe” due to emerging cases of coronavirus across the country.
CDC Director Rochelle Walensky and FEMA Administrator Robert Fenton will be at the Hynes Convention Center mass vaccination for the 1p. m conference. Baker will also be accompanied by Senator Ed Markey and Congressman Stephen Lynch.
The federal government will attend the new Hynes site, the state’s most prolific COVID-19 vaccination site. FEMA will supply an additional 6,000 doses to the site, bringing the total daily allowance to 7,000. The site will also be staffed through FEMA workers. .
Walensky, a Newton resident and local Peabody who was head of the department of infectious diseases at Massachusetts General Hospital, said Monday that she “fears” coronavirus cases will increase nationwide.
“I’m going to lose the script, ” he said. And I’m going to reflect on the recurring feeling I have of approaching unhappiness. We have so much to look forward, so much promise and prospective from where we are, and so much explanation of why hope, but for now, I know what it’s like for a doctor to stand in a patient’s room, dressed, cheerful, masked, and be the last user to touch someone else because the latter can’t be there.
Later that day, President Joe Biden echoed his warning and called on state leaders to maintain existing restrictions or restore them if they have been lifted.
Massachusetts has entered a new phase of reopening despite a build-up in some cases; the state may exceed 600,000 instances of COVID-19 this week, but hospitalizations have not increased at the same rate, have increased, and deaths have decreased, indicating that the state’s strategy of vaccinating its most vulnerable citizens first can withstand Fruit.
The state reported 1,464 new cases, 675 hospitalizations and 15 deaths on Monday. More than 40,000 others were vaccinated on Sunday and 18675 gained their moment injection of Moderna or Pfizer, or their bachelorette dose of Johnson.
AUSSI: A car crashed into a Roxbury vaccine on Tuesday morning. Appointments are still going on.