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A new artificial intelligence-based score considers multiple factors to predict the prognosis of individual patients with COVID-19 seen at urgent care clinics or emergency departments. The tool, nicknamed CoVA, was created by investigators at Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) and can …

State health officials have cited three Massachusetts hospitals in the past six months for turning patients away from their emergency rooms, including one case when the person died en route to another hospital. Investigators determined that Charlton Memorial Hospital in …