COBTH in the News

Dr. Jill Kasper, a pediatrician at Cambridge Health Alliance, said she typically encounters “very little hesitancy” from parents about routine adolescent vaccinations. That hasn’t been the case with COVID-19.

"The data are particularly important because it's a study that was done in the most challenging epidemiologic setting, which is a major surge of the Delta variant in Africa," Dan Barouch, MD, PhD, director of the Center for Virology and Vaccine Research at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center told the Journal.

THREE OF THE state’s health care leaders urged employers to require their workers to get vaccinated against COVID-19, saying the only real protection against the Delta variant of the disease is inoculation.

While hospitalization rates in Massachusetts are on the rise again, it's "nothing close to what's being seen in many of the other states where vaccination rates are much lower," said Dr. Mark Siedner, an epidemiologist at Massachusetts General Hospital.

The Cambridge Health Alliance represents an interesting case study. Located across the river from Boston where it has served as a laboratory for testing innovations in care, CHA has evolved into a model that integrates the physical, mental, and social needs of its patients.

"Evidence shows that patients who have an established relationship with their primary care provider appear to have better outcomes in terms of their health," says Ateev Mehrotra, MD, associate professor of medicine and hospitalist at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center.