Hull health officials join crowd urging: ‘Band-aids are for cuts, not for budgets’ The message was clear: The time to establish a sustainable state funding mechanism to support local health departments and boards of health, including Hull’s, is now. Hull Public Health Director Joyce Sullivan, Public Health Nurse Joan Taverna, and state Rep. Joan Meschino,…
The new Massachusetts Homebound Vaccination program offers in-home inoculations for individuals who cannot leave their homes for a vaccination appointment, even with assistance. Many local health boards, including Hull’s, are managing this program for the homebound in their own communities. “We are not following the state’s in-home vaccination program as it involved too much paperwork…
covidHull remains in the high-risk red zone for coronavirus cases, with the Board of Health tracking 51 new cases reported from Dec. 30 through Jan. 6. That caseload brings the total for the town in 2020 to 341, according to public health nurse Joyce Sullivan. “This is the biggest increase we have seen since the…
During an update this week on the coronavirus pandemic, Hull Board of Health Director Joyce Sullivan had some sobering news to report to the Board of Selectmen about the 40 COVID-19 cases her office has been following since early this month. “Thirty-three of those are confirmed PCR [swab test] positives, and seven are probables, but…