By Jessika Harkay on July 13, 2021 Growing up, Thierry Gation never pictured himself as an EMT because none looked like him. “Most of the EMTs I saw were Caucasian. I never saw EMTs that were Hispanic or that were African-American, or anything else. It wasn’t until I...
By Ryan Trowbridge and Kaylee Pugliese on July 15, 2021 SPRINGFIELD, MA (WGGB/WSHM) — Western Mass News is looking into COVID-19 testing and we’ve found testing has significantly declined here in the Bay State. With the Delta variant of the virus and a...
By Isabel Sami on July 1, 2021 WORCESTER — As the COVID-19 vaccination rate in the city begins to lose momentum, the state has implemented a way to increase access to vaccines with a mobile vaccination clinic called the Vax Bus, which parked in Worcester Thursday. The...
By Sy Becker on June 29, 2021 WEST SPRINGFIELD, Mass. (WWLP) – The Vax bus is in western Massachusetts vaccinating people against COVID-19. The Vax bus has been eastbound since starting its western Massachusetts run in Pittsfield the other day. Apparently its been a...
By Kayla Burton and Amanda Callahan on June 26, 2021 SPRINGFIELD, MA (WGGB/WSHM) — What better way to start the summer season than with a cookout, bouncy house for the kids, and touch-a-truck experience, all for free. For the first time ever, American Medical...