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Zero Coronavirus Patients At Boston Hospital; State and Feds Ending ‘Public Health Emergency’ Next Week

Zero Coronavirus Patients At Boston Hospital; State and Feds Ending ‘Public Health Emergency’ Next Week

Tom Joyce

Tufts Medical Center has announced that for the first time since March 2020 the hospital does not have any coronavirus inpatients.
 
The announcement came from a spokesman for the hospital, according to New England Cable News, and nine days before Governor Maura Healey has scheduled the end of Massachusetts's declared public health emergency, which includes a provision requiring masks in medical settings.
 
The state's declared public health emergency is scheduled to end Thursday, May 11, which coincides with the federal government's schedule.

The Biden administration announced Monday that coronavirus vaccine requirements for federal employees, federal contractors, and international air travelers will end on Thursday, May 11, "the same day that the COVID-19 public health emergency ends."

RFK Jr. Says No Males In Girls’ Sports
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RFK Jr. Says No Males In Girls’ Sports

Tom Joyce

Should males who identify as transgender girls be allowed to compete in girls' sports?

One Democratic presidential candidate says no.
 
Environmental lawyer Robert F. Kennedy Jr. expressed his opposition to allowing biological males to compete in girls' sports this past weekend.
 
"I am against people participating in women's sports who are biologically male," Kennedy recently told CNN. "I think women have worked too hard to develop women's sports over the past 30 years. I watched it happen, and I don't think that's fair."
 
Kennedy's remark came a little over one week after the United States House of Representatives passed the Protection of Women and Girls in Sports Act. The bill would prevent males from participating in girls' school sports. It passed 219-203; no Democrats voted in favor of it.

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