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1/6/2012 Boston, MA Melissa Shaw (cq), left, a personal trainer at Boston Sports Club training Sonia Mazzitelli (cq) at the Brookline Avenue Club on Friday January 6, 2011. Mazzitelli hired a personal trainer to help her lose weight and this is her first session with Shaw. (Matthew J. Lee/Globe staff) slug: 08gym section: metro Reporter: Billy Baker

A local gym chain wouldn’t let members cancel during the coronavirus outbreak. Then they charged them.

Boston skyline

Mayor Walsh is dedicating $3 million to help Bostonians pay their rent during the pandemic

Boston, MA - 3/21/2020 - The COVID-19 outbreak in Boston has greatly affected foot traffic in areas that normally would be teeming with people out on a Friday and Saturday night. A sign advertising take-out stands outside The Fours Restaurant and Sports Bar on a deserted Canal street on an early Saturday evening. Photos were taken between 7 and 9:00pm Friday and Saturday evening. - (Barry Chin/Globe Staff), Section: Metro, Reporter: Globe Staff, Topic: Boston at Night, LOID: 8.3.2998834641.

Massachusetts restaurants can now sell wine and beer to-go during the coronavirus outbreak

'Zoombombing' becomes a dangerous organized effort April 3, 2020 | 9:36 PM

President Donald Trump speaks in the press briefing room with members of the White House Coronavirus Task Force April 3, 2020 in Washington, DC.

White House scrambles to scoop up medical supplies, angering Canada, Germany April 3, 2020 | 8:29 PM

Chris Cuomo shared what symptoms he's dealt with since he was diagnosed with the coronavirus.

Chris Cuomo shares he's dealt with constant fevers, lost 13 pounds since COVID-19 diagnosis April 3, 2020 | 6:30 PM

BOSTON, MA - 3/19/2020: Where have all the people gone....a harbor seal looks from an outdoor tank by front entrance at The New England Aquarium in Boston. The staff is taking care of all it's inhabitants cleaning and feeding daily during this COVID-19 coronavirus crisis with the help of its staff and the loss of volunteers that are staying home. (David L Ryan/Globe Staff ) SECTION: METRO TOPIC:stand alone photo

New England Aquarium

New England Aquarium announces layoffs, furloughs, pay cuts, and reduced work schedules April 3, 2020 | 6:09 PM

People wear face masks on April 02, 2020 in New York.

Face coverings recommended, but Trump says he won't wear one April 3, 2020 | 5:55 PM

Massachusetts Gov. Charles Baker speaks inside a hangar with the New England Patriots jet parked outside after being unloaded at Logan Airport after flying from China with a massive shipment of over one million N95 masks which will be used in Boston and New York to help fight the spread of the coronavirus. . (Jim Davis/The Boston Globe via AP, Pool)

Charlie Baker explains his emotional response to the delivery of masks by the Kraft family April 3, 2020 | 3:49 PM

Kathleen Kennedy Townsend spoke at a joint session of the Massachusetts legislature in 2017.

Kathleen Kennedy Townsend

'Recovery' search for Kennedy Townsend's daughter, grandson April 3, 2020 | 3:34 PM

FILE - This Dec. 17, 2017 file photo shows CNN news anchor Brooke Baldwin at the 11th annual CNN Heroes: An All-Star Tribute at the American Museum of Natural History in New York. Baldwin says she's tested positive for the coronavirus. She's the second on-air personality at the news network to come down with the disease in the past week. Prime time host Chris Cuomo has also tested positive and did two of his shows remotely from the basement of his home. Baldwin says the fever, aches and chills that are often a sign of Covid-19 came on suddenly for her. (Photo by Evan Agostini/Invision/AP, File)

CNN's Brooke Baldwin tests positive for the coronavirus April 3, 2020 | 3:10 PM

Mass. Secretary of Health and Human Services Marylou Sudders looks at Gov. Charlie Baker while he speaks during a briefing on the state's response to COVID-19 on Monday.

SENIORS AT RISK

Here's how Mass. is preparing to protect nursing home residents from the coming COVID-19 surge April 3, 2020 | 2:57 PM

A mask wearing passenger has plenty of empty seats around them as they ride an MBTA trolley on Commonwealth Avenue.

MBTA modifies some bus schedules to better serve health care workers April 3, 2020 | 2:04 PM

Boston, MA: 02-13-2018: Detail of the front page of the Feb. 13, 2018 Boston Herald.

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Boston Herald lays off columnists and reporters amid coronavirus outbreak April 3, 2020 | 1:24 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 3, 2020 | 1:21 PM

Holyoke, MA - 3/31/20 - Cleaners enter the Soldiers' Home in Holyoke where several people have died due to coronavirus or COVID-19. (Jessica Rinaldi/Globe Staff) Reporter: Brian MacQuarrie

Veteran deaths at the Holyoke Soldiers' Home have risen to 21. What we know so far. April 3, 2020 | 1:10 PM

How to apply for the Guy Fieri-backed relief fund for restaurant workers April 3, 2020 | 12:38 PM

COVID-19 FRONT LINES

Vermont, desperate for COVID medical help, is tapping veterinarians April 3, 2020 | 12:37 PM

People walk past the New York Stock Exchange in February in New York City.

Americans are underestimating how long coronavirus disruptions will last, health experts say April 3, 2020 | 12:19 PM

Dr. Richard Levitan in front of Bellevue Hospital in New York.

A New Hampshire doctor came to N.Y. to save lives. The co-op board told him to get lost. April 3, 2020 | 12:13 PM

The Navy hospital ship Comfort has been docked at Pier 90 in Manhattan since its arrival on Monday.

The 1,000-bed Comfort was supposed to aid New York. It has 20 patients. April 3, 2020 | 11:58 AM

Deborah Birx, White House coronavirus response coordinator, shows charts on death estimates related to the coronavirus pandemic. (Jabin Botsford/The Washington Post)

Coronavirus deaths

How did the White House arrive at its 100,000 to 240,000 coronavirus deaths estimate? Here's what we know. April 3, 2020 | 11:45 AM

Meadow Brook Golf Club

3 Mass. men charged with violating quarantine after playing golf in Rhode Island April 3, 2020 | 11:09 AM

N95 respirators staged for decontamination in the Battelle Critical Care Decontamination System.

‘A significant win for Massachusetts’: N95 mask decontamination system will be set up in Somerville April 3, 2020 | 10:39 AM

HOLIDAYS & COVID-19

Watch: Social Distancing Bunny keeps Easter alive in Norwood neighborhood April 3, 2020 | 10:15 AM

Life Care Center of Nashoba Valley in Littleton

National Guard to step in for COVID-19 testing at senior facility April 3, 2020 | 10:09 AM

Social distancing is not emotional distancing at funerals and grieving in the coronavirus age. A graveside service for a family at the Ohavi Sedeck Cemetery in West Roxbury.

Funerals during COVID-19

'They wanted to do it as quickly as possible': Families face emotional challenges of having a funeral during COVID-19 April 3, 2020 | 10:03 AM

Susan Lee, a special education teacher, and her 12-year-old daughter Alyssa, outside their home in Pelham, Ala.

DeVos weighs waiving special education laws. Parents are worried. April 3, 2020 | 9:24 AM

Members of the National Rifle Association held its annual meetings in Indianapolis last year.

The NRA sees a threat, and an opportunity, in COVID-19 April 3, 2020 | 9:17 AM

The Seabrook Nuclear Power Plant, more commonly known as Seabrook Station, the nuclear power plant located in Seabrook, New Hampshire, sits approximately 40 miles north of Boston.

NUCLEAR PLANT STAFFING

'This is highly specialized work that needs a lot of attention and focus' April 3, 2020 | 8:56 AM

Jobs report Friday is expected to end record hiring streak April 3, 2020 | 12:01 AM

The New England Patriots plane delivers N95 masks from Shenzhen, China to Logan International Airport to slow the spread of the coronavirus outbreak.

Patriots plane ferries critical masks from China to U.S. April 2, 2020 | 8:17 PM

Registered Nurse Elizabeth Schafer, 36, of South St. Paul, Minn., stands for a portrait before entering Beth Israel Mount Sinai Hospital for her second day volunteering to combat the COVID-19 pandemic, Wednesday, April 1, 2020, in New York.

Economic fallout mounts, worldwide cases top 1 million April 2, 2020 | 7:51 PM