Here is a chronology of stories published by the Vineyard Gazette related to the coronavirus:
updated 4 months ago
2:26pm, December 14, 2023
Since early 2020, the Martha’s Vineyard community has lived and worked through the Covid-19 pandemic.
April 12, 2022
The vaccination bus returns to Martha's Vineyard on Sunday, May 1.
April 4, 2022
The Martha’s Vineyard boards of health reported 20 positive cases of Covid-19 for the seven-day period ending April 2. The Vineyard remains classified as low risk.
April 1, 2022
The Martha’s Vineyard Hospital is now offering second booster shots of the Covid-19 vaccine to anyone over the age of 50 and people with certain medical conditions.
March 28, 2022
New Covid cases on Martha’s Vineyard have leveled off after an uptick over the past two weeks, according to the Island boards of health.
March 24, 2022
Cases of Covid-19 crept up slightly on the Vineyard last week, as public health officials keep a close eye on the numbers with new sub-variants of the virus emerging around the globe.
March 9, 2022
TestMV, the Island’s free coronavirus testing site, will close at the end of March, some 22 months after it launched to overwhelming demand at the start of the pandemic.
March 7, 2022
Martha’s Vineyard schools reopened Monday after winter break without a face-covering requirement for the first time in two years.
March 2, 2022
Marking another turning point in the pandemic, Islanders can now shop, dine out and enter most public buildings without masks.
February 28, 2022
Martha’s Vineyard boards of health will take up the question of whether to continue the mandatory Islandwide indoor mask mandate this week, as regional and national guidance shifts toward a looser approach to face coverings in public.
February 24, 2022
With Covid cases dropping sharply on the Island, health officials are poised to reconsider the school mask mandate that has been in place for most of the past two years.
February 18, 2022
With the end of the state-imposed school mask mandate less than two weeks away, Island school committee members split Thursday on whether or not to immediately drop the mandates.
February 16, 2022
New cases of Covid-19 on the Island continued their downward trend, with 74 cases confirmed for the week ending Friday, Feb. 11 and just 14 more in the five days since.
February 15, 2022
The question of whether employees of the Steamship Authority can be required to be vaccinated will be decided in federal court.
February 8, 2022
Two years after the outbreak of the Covid-19 pandemic began, the Martha’s Vineyard Hospital reported its first on-Island death from the coronavirus Tuesday.
February 8, 2022
Two years after the outbreak of the Covid-19 pandemic began, the Martha’s Vineyard Hospital reported its first on-Island death from the coronavirus Tuesday.
February 6, 2022
As the only federally qualified community health center on the Island, Island Health Care has been at the forefront of the recent surge in the distribution of at-home test kits.
February 1, 2022
Mirroring the statewide trend, Covid-19 cases on Martha’s Vineyard are seeing a sharp decline following a record spike in early January.
January 27, 2022
Although suspected during the recent Covid-19 surge, the Island’s first detection of the Omicron variant was finally confirmed this week in a sample sent out for sequencing.
January 24, 2022
New cases of Covid-19 are on the decline following a surge that saw record case counts, boards of health reported Monday. Free distribution of at-home test kits will continue through the week
January 20, 2022
A shipment of rapid Covid-19 tests to the Island from the federal government was delayed this week, with test kits supplies in most towns depleted.
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