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
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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.
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Boston, MA - 3/26/20 - Gov. Charlie Baker holds a press conference in the Gardner Auditorium at The State House on March 26, 2020. Baker and Secretary of Health and Human Services Marylou Sudders addressed attempting to secure more pieces of personal protection equipment and mobile schooling concerns. (Blake Nissen/ For The Boston Globe) Reporter: Topic:
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People wearing face-masks line up to buy supplies from a shop during the coronavirus outbreak in Barcelona, Spain, Saturday, April 4, 2020.
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Michael Atkinson, the inspector general for the intelligence community, arrives for a closed-door hearing before the House Intelligence Committee in Washington on Friday, Oct. 4, 2019. President Donald Trump is firing Atkinson, the president told lawmakers in a letter late Friday, April 3.
WASHINGTON
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Experts are advising to clean groceries.
DISINFECTING TIPS
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In this Friday, Nov. 22, 1963 file photo, Jacqueline Kennedy, with bloodstains on her clothes, holds hands with her brother-in-law, Attorney General Robert Kennedy, as the coffin carrying the body of President John F. Kennedy is placed in an ambulance after arriving at Andrews Air Force Base, Md. near Washington.
THE KENNEDYS
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GOVERNMENT RESPONSE
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Dr. Robert Redfield, director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
STAT
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On their Facebook, the NEAQ plans to talk about their garden eels at 11:00 a.m. on Saturday April 4th.
Virtual NEAQ
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The Pilgrim Nuclear power plant on the seashore of Plymouth.
Pilgrim Nuclear Power Station
Plymouth nuclear plant radioactive fuel transfer to go on despite coronavirus concerns April 4, 2020 | 10:37 AM
In this June 6, 2017 file photo, a reporter holds up an example of the amount of fentanyl that can be deadly. (Jacquelyn Martin / AP File)
Opioid Crisis in MA
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Dr. Anthony Fauci, director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, speaks about the coronavirus in the James Brady Press Briefing Room of the White House, Wednesday, April 1, 2020, in Washington, as Vice President Mike Pence listens. (Alex Brandon / AP Photo)
Dr. Anthony Fauci
A bobblehead of Dr. Fauci will nod towards flattening the curve April 4, 2020 | 9:08 AM
National Medical Stockpile
Some states receive masks from the national stockpile to find dry rot, broken ventilators April 4, 2020 | 8:33 AM
Revere-03/27/2020 A sign in an upper floor window at the Jack Satter House in Revere.
SENIOR LIVING DURING COVID-19
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The logo for the Zoom Video Communications Inc. application.
Technology
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President Donald Trump speaks in the press briefing room with members of the White House Coronavirus Task Force April 3, 2020 in Washington, DC.
Coronavirus
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Chris Cuomo shared what symptoms he's dealt with since he was diagnosed with the coronavirus.
Media
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
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People wear face masks on April 02, 2020 in New York.
Face masks
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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)
Local
Charlie Baker explains his emotional response to the delivery of masks by the Kraft family April 3, 2020 | 3:49 PM
This undated image posted on Maeve Kennedy Townsend McKean's Facebook account shows her with her family, including her son Gideon Joseph Kennedy McKean, bottom right. Authorities were searching for the daughter and a grandson of former Maryland Lt. Gov. Kathleen Kennedy Townsend on Friday, April 3, 2020, after a canoe they were paddling in the Chesapeake Bay didn’t return to shore. (Twitter via AP)
Kathleen Kennedy Townsend
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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)
Media
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
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. Photo/John Blanding, Boston Globe staff story/ ( )
MEDIA
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)
Local
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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
Local
Veteran deaths at the Holyoke Soldiers' Home have risen to 21. What we know so far. April 3, 2020 | 1:10 PM
Boston Helps
How to apply for the Guy Fieri-backed relief fund for restaurant workers April 3, 2020 | 12:38 PM
COVID-19 FRONT LINES
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People walk past the New York Stock Exchange in February in New York City.
STAT
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