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BOSTON MA. APRIL 5: Mayor Marty Walsh wears a mask after speaking during a media availability outside City Hall to discuss updates relating to COVID-19 on April 5, 2020 in Boston, MA. (Staff Photo By Nancy Lane/MediaNews Group/Boston Herald)

Why Marty Walsh wants Boston residents to wear a face covering — not a 'mask'

“You compare it to the older generations — they worked up and saved money,” said Jayci Cumberledge, 23, of Amherst, Ohio.

Millennials, burdened with debt, are now facing an economic crisis

Maeve Fahey Kennedy Townsend McKean, 41, and her son, 8-year-old Gideon, are presumed dead after going missing on the Chesapeake Bay Thursday.

Body of Kathleen Kennedy Townsend's daughter recovered

Amy Setchell, at right, program director of the respiratory therapy program at Madison Area Technical College, and Chris Becker, director of clinical education of the respiratory therapy program at MATC, load ventilators, that the school is lending due to coronavirus to SSM Health, along with other area hospitals, into a truck outside the college's Health Education Building in Madison, Wis., Tuesday, March 24, 2020. (Amber Arnold/Wisconsin State Journal via AP)

Massachusetts has asked for 1,700 ventilators for the COVID-19 surge. Only a fraction have arrived. April 6, 2020 | 7:21 PM

An office converted into a bedroom for a National Grid employee.

Some National Grid workers haven't been home in weeks. They've volunteered to live at work. April 6, 2020 | 6:47 PM

Healthcare workers wearing protective suits attend to COVID-19 coronavirus patients at the Intensive Unit Care (ICU) of the Vall d'Hebron Hospital in Barcelona on April 6, 2020. - Spain declared a fourth consecutive drop in the number of coronavirus-related deaths with 637 over the past 24 hours, the lowest number in nearly two weeks. (Photo by PAU BARRENA / AFP) (Photo by PAU BARRENA/AFP via Getty Images)

What's the recovery like from a severe case of coronavirus? April 6, 2020 | 6:12 PM

Democratic presidential candidate former Vice President Joe Biden speaks during a virtual press briefing Wednesday, March 25, 2020.

Trump, Biden spoke by phone about coronavirus outbreak April 6, 2020 | 5:48 PM

Monitors displaying stock market information are seen through the window of the Nasdaq MarketSite in New York.

Dow surges 1,600 points even as U.S. braces for 'hardest and saddest' week of the pandemic April 6, 2020 | 5:32 PM

In this Nov. 15, 2029, photo U.S. Navy Capt. Brett Crozier, commanding officer of the aircraft carrier USS Theodore Roosevelt (CVN 71), addresses the crew during an all-hands call on the ship's flight deck while conducting routine operations in the Eastern Pacific Ocean. U.S. defense leaders are backing the Navy's decision to fire the ship captain who sought help for his coronavirus-stricken aircraft carrier, even as videos showed his sailors cheering him as he walked off the vessel. Videos went viral on social media Friday, April 3, 2020, showing hundreds of sailors gathered on the ship chanting and applauding Navy Capt. Brett Crozier as he walked down the ramp, turned, saluted, waved and got into a waiting car. (U.S. Navy Photo by Mass Communication Specialist 3rd Class Nicholas Huynh via AP)

Navy leader calls fired carrier captain 'naive' or 'stupid' April 6, 2020 | 5:18 PM

The Soldiers' Home in Holyoke.

Veterans and COVID-19

Feds to aid vets in hard-hit Massachusetts nursing homes April 6, 2020 | 5:14 PM

The suspect.

Walmart patron in Mass. sprays cashier in the eyes with Lysol over pandemic limit, police say April 6, 2020 | 4:12 PM

Gov. Charlie Baker, Lt. Gov. Karyn Polito, and Health and Human Services Secretary Marylou Sudders hold an afternoon press conference or COVID-19 briefing in the Gardner Auditorium of the Massachusetts State House. (Sam Doran/Pool)

Watch: Charlie Baker's coronavirus update April 6, 2020 | 3:42 PM

FILE - In this Saturday, March 28, 2020 handout photo provided by Number 10 Downing Street, Britain's Prime Minister Boris Johnson chairs the morning Covid-19 Meeting remotely after self isolating after testing positive for the coronavirus, at 10 Downing Street, London. British Prime Minister Boris Johnson has been admitted to a hospital with the coronavirus. Johnson’s office says he is being admitted for tests because he still has symptoms 10 days after testing positive for the virus. (Andrew Parsons/10 Downing Street via AP, File)

British Prime Minister Boris Johnson moved to ICU April 6, 2020 | 3:30 PM

The Milford Police Department headquarters

POLICE SHOOTING

Milford police officer shoots, kills pipe-wielding suspect, officials say April 6, 2020 | 3:09 PM

A ventilator is pictured during an instruction of doctors at the Universitaetsklinikum Eppendorf in Hamburg on March 25.

EdX and Harvard just launched a free online course in ventilator use for health care workers April 6, 2020 | 2:31 PM

A young boy in a mask pulls his suitcase after arriving from Paris in the arrivals area at terminal E at Logan Airport last month.

KIDS & COVID-19

New data: Virus is mostly mild and rarely fatal for U.S. kids April 6, 2020 | 2:26 PM

People walk their dogs at Castle Island in Boston, Mass. on Sunday, Dec. 8.

Mass. state coastal beaches remain open — but don't plan on getting a tan. Here's what to know. April 6, 2020 | 2:22 PM

It may be a while before we see another crowd in Boston like the one at this Patriots rally at City Hall Plaza. But some experts say identifying who has recovered from the coronavirus could help jump start the economy and get people together again.

First Opinion: The ‘certified recovered’ from Covid-19 could lead the economic recovery April 6, 2020 | 1:40 PM

A temporary morgue set up outside the office of the chief medical examiner in New York City.

New York City considers mass grave in park for coronavirus victims April 6, 2020 | 1:30 PM

Two women practice social distancing while talking on Commonwealth Avenue Mall in Boston Saturday, April 4.

Poll: Americans taking pandemic seriously, but impact varies April 6, 2020 | 12:36 PM

Police: Fatal crash on Route 24 may have involved mattress April 6, 2020 | 12:01 PM

Ipswich River.

2 kayakers pulled from Ipswich River and treated for hypothermia April 6, 2020 | 11:59 AM

Don't panic if you feel sick — pollen counts are very high this week April 6, 2020 | 11:43 AM

President Donald Trump speaks during a coronavirus briefing at the White House in Washington, April 4, 2020. For the political warriors of the Covid-19 campaign, where, in this pre-peak stage of the crisis, the national political debate is inside out and upside down, sending both sides of the national divide scurrying to figure out where the new political and ideological lines will settle come the fall. (Anna Moneymaker/The New York Times)

Hydroxychloroquine

Ignoring expert opinion, Trump again promotes use of hydroxychloroquine April 6, 2020 | 10:45 AM

A driver walks to catch the train toward Boston after parking in the unusually empty lot for commuters Wednesday, March 18, 2020, in South Attleboro, Mass. It's a scene playing out all over the world. The spaces we filled, now filled with space. The empty streets, the silent playgrounds and the lone commuter. Rush hour feels more like hush hour. From above, life on earth looks different. The patterns of our daily routines are now replaced by the patterns of empty parking lots. (AP Photo/David Goldman)

U.S. is nowhere close to reopening the economy, experts say April 6, 2020 | 10:34 AM

White House pushes unproven drug for virus, but doctors wary April 6, 2020 | 10:30 AM

Trump slams watchdog report on hospitals engulfed by virus April 6, 2020 | 10:21 AM

A sprawling villa at the Conrad Maldives Rangali Island. MUST CREDIT: Conrad Maldives Rangali Island

They were the last couple in paradise. Now their resort life continues. April 6, 2020 | 9:38 AM

FILE - This undated electron microscope image made available by the U.S. National Institutes of Health in February 2020 shows the Novel Coronavirus SARS-CoV-2. Also known as 2019-nCoV, the virus causes COVID-19. The sample was isolated from a patient in the U.S. On Friday, Feb. 21, 2020, The Associated Press reported on a video circulating online incorrectly asserting that man in Wuhan, China, was sanitizing his apartment with alcohol when the air conditioner came on and caused an explosion and fire. The fire captured on video was the result of a cigarette that was improperly put out on a comforter. The comforter then ignited and was placed on a balcony where nearby debris caught fire in Chongqing, China, a city hundreds of miles away from Wuhan. (NIAID-RML via AP)

Mass. officials report 29 new COVID-19 deaths, 1,337 new cases April 6, 2020 | 9:17 AM

Lincoln Chafee is ending his presidential run.

Former R.I. governor Lincoln Chafee ends Libertarian run for president April 6, 2020 | 8:41 AM

6-year-old Worcester boy receives new heart after 4 years of waiting April 6, 2020 | 8:39 AM

Troops from the Maryland National Guard work in a section of parking lot on the south side of FedEX Field, slated to become a clinic for health screenings in response to the global coronavirus pandemic.

COVID-19 vs. TERRORISM

The coronavirus inflicts its own kind of terror April 6, 2020 | 7:48 AM

EXPERIMENTAL DRUG TESTS

Mass General cardiologist among patients participating in study for coronavirus drug April 6, 2020 | 1:20 AM