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The Boston Globe published 16 pages of obituaries, echoing a Lombardy newspaper which also grew the section during the coronavirus outbreak

, outlining plans for contact tracing in the state and collaborating with other northeastern states in its coronavirus response.

Gov. Charlie Baker appeared on CBS News' Face The Nation to discuss Massachusetts' coronavirus response.The Globe's obituary section stood in stark parallel to that of L'Eco Di Bergamo, from just over one month ago on March 14, as Italy approached the peak of its own coronavirus curve. In that paper in Lombardy, the worst-affected region in the country, the section that was ordinarily around just a page and a half long had grown to 10 pages,The names in the Globe's Sunday edition came from all over the state, and the cause of death was not listed in all of them, the paper reported. However, "several of the death notices mentioned a battle with COVID-19," said the paper.

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NorthStarWolf same as Bergamo :((

Why don’t you track this stat over a 7 day period. They are stuffing more obits into the Sunday paper

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