Health Care

Students, staff and alumni from Quinsigamond Community College in Worcester have mobilized to help fight the coronavirus crisis, the college announced in a press release that week.

Eric Dickson, the president and CEO of UMass Memorial Health Care in Worcester, will donate his paycheck to the UMass Emergency Assistance Support for Employees Fund until Gov. Charlie Baker lifts the state of emergency declaration, the healthcare provider announced in a Friday press release.

Confirmed coronavirus cases in Worcester County were nearing 1,000 on Sunday, with 978 total cases showing a slight slowing in the past few days in the number of new cases.

Massachusetts officials will launch a large-scale contact tracing program with the help of a nonprofit health organization, aiming by the end of April to have about 1,000 people investigating and recording every instance of potential coronavirus transmission.

Another 158 coronavirus cases were reported in Worcester County on Friday, along with the county's 13th death.

The Worcester metropolitan area has more reported coronavirus deaths than areas several times larger, including Phoenix, Tampa Bay or Minneapolis, showing how much the region has borne an unusually high number of cases relatively early in the pandemic.

With events canceled across the state and most hospitality businesses considered non-essential, the Central Massachusetts tourism industry is anticipating major losses due to the efforts to stem the coronavirus pandemic.

Worcester County had a reported 104 more coronavirus cases Thursday and four more deaths, the Massachusetts Department of Public Health reported.

One message was clear during Worcester Business Journal's webinar Thursday about the $2-trillion stimulus package in the wake of the coronavirus crisis: Get your loan applications as soon as possible starting Friday.

Boston Scientific is temporarily reducing some employee work schedules and reducing executive and board pay as the Marlborough medical device maker says it has been hurt by delays in elective surgeries during the coronavirus outbreak.