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Lifting of COVID public health emergency brings concerns about ending free testing and vaccines, survey finds

WAMC Northeast Public Radio | By Paul Tuthill
Published May 12, 2023 at 10:19 AM EDT
A health worker administers a dose of a Moderna COVID-19 vaccine during a vaccination clinic at the Norristown Public Health Center in Norristown, Pa., Tuesday, Dec. 7, 2021.
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A health worker administers a dose of a Moderna COVID-19 vaccine during a vaccination clinic at the Norristown Public Health Center in Norristown, Pa., Tuesday, Dec. 7, 2021.

More than 600 responded to survey by Public Health Institute of Western Mass.

The COVID-19 public health emergency has ended after three years and a survey in Massachusetts finds people have concerns.

More than 600 people responded to the survey posted online in April by the Public Health Institute of Western Massachusetts. Chief concerns included the end of free COVID-19 testing and vaccinations for people who are uninsured.

The survey also asked people who they trust for information about COVID.

WAMC’s Pioneer Valley Bureau Chief Paul Tuthill spoke with Jessica Collins, the institute’s Executive Director.

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Paul Tuthill
Paul Tuthill is WAMC’s Pioneer Valley Bureau Chief. He’s been covering news, everything from politics and government corruption to natural disasters and the arts, in western Massachusetts since 2007. Before joining WAMC, Paul was a reporter and anchor at WRKO in Boston. He was news director for more than a decade at WTAG in Worcester. Paul has won more than two dozen Associated Press Broadcast Awards. He won an Edward R. Murrow award for reporting on veterans’ healthcare for WAMC in 2011. Born and raised in western New York, Paul did his first radio reporting while he was a student at the University of Rochester.
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