Hello Everyone!

DEAF, Inc. will have monthly ASL social on Friday, January 29th at 6pm. ASL students of all levels, community members, Deaf, Hard of Hearing, Late-Deafened, DeafBlind, and Hearing are welcome! RSVP to ASL@deafinconline.org by Thursday, January 28th at 3pm EST to receive meeting ID.

Please be aware that DEAF, Inc. will be closed Monday, January 18th in honor of Martin Luther King Jr. Day. 

We will have a Presidential Inauguration Day on Wednesday, January 20th, 2021 in Washington, DC. Biden and Harris will take an oath and be sworn in as our official president and vice-president of the US. Biden will be the oldest president elected to office at 78 years old and 2 months. Harris is the first black and South Asian (Indian) woman to be elected as Vice President. 

The FBI is warning of plans for armed protests at all 50 state capitals and in Washington, D.C. this week through President-elect Joe Biden’s inauguration after last week’s deadly siege at the U.S. Capitol and is urging Americans to avoid the city during Biden's inauguration on January 20th and to participate virtually.

In the first phase of the current three-phase vaccine rollout in Massachusetts, officials are prioritizing (in this order) frontline health care workers; nursing homes and other long-term care facilities; first responders; congregate care settings, such as homeless shelters and prisons; and other health care workers who are not treating COVID-19 patients.

Governor Baker said so far over 470,000 doses of the coronavirus vaccine have been distributed to providers in Massachusetts. The Department of Public Health released its weekly vaccine dashboard Thursday, which showed that 210,000 people in the Bay State have received their first vaccine shot and that another 32,000 have received both shots.

Nearly two-thirds of Massachusetts’ cities and towns are now in the state's coronavirus red zone, indicating the highest risk of transmission that puts a record 229 cities and towns in the red zone, up from 219 last week. That means 65% of all of Massachusetts' 351 communities are in the red zone.

Abington, Acushnet, Adams, Agawam, Amesbury, Andover, Ashburnham, Ashland, Athol, Attleboro, Auburn, Avon, Ayer, Barnstable, Barre, Belchertown, Bellingham, Berkley, Berlin, Beverly, Billerica, Blackstone, Boston, Bourne, Boxford, Boylston, Braintree, Brewster, Bridgewater, Brimfield, Brockton, Brookfield, Burlington, Canton, Carver, Charlton, Chatham, Chelmsford, Chelsea, Cheshire, Chicopee, Clinton, Cohasset, Dalton, Danvers, Dartmouth, Dedham, Dennis, Dighton, Douglas, Dover, Dracut, Dudley, Duxbury, East Bridgewater, East Brookfield, East Longmeadow, Easthampton, Easton, Edgartown, Everett, Fairhaven, Fall River, Fitchburg, Foxborough, Framingham, Franklin, Freetown, Gardner, Georgetown, Gloucester, Grafton, Granby, Great Barrington, Groveland, Hadley, Halifax, Hamilton, Hampden, Hanover, Hanson, Harwich, Hatfield, Haverhill, Hingham, Holbrook, Holden, Holliston, Holyoke, Hopedale, Hopkinton, Hudson, Hull, Ipswich, Kingston, Lakeville, Lancaster, Lawrence, Lee, Leicester, Leominster, Littleton, Longmeadow, Lowell, Ludlow, Lunenburg, Lynn, Lynnfield, Malden, Manchester, Mansfield, Marblehead, Marion, Marlborough, Marshfield, Mashpee, Mattapoisett, Maynard, Medford, Medway, Merrimac, Methuen, Middleborough, Middleton, Milford, Millbury, Millis, Millville, Milton, Monson, Nahant, Nantucket, New Bedford, Newbury, Norfolk, North Andover, North Attleborough, North Brookfield, North Reading, Northborough, Norton, Norwell, Norwood, Oak Bluffs, Orange, Orleans, Oxford, Palmer, Paxton, Peabody, Pembroke, Pepperell, Pittsfield, Plainville, Plymouth, Quincy, Randolph, Raynham, Reading, Rehoboth, Revere, Rochester, Rockland, Rockport, Rowley, Rutland, Salem, Salisbury, Sandwich, Saugus, Scituate, Seekonk, Sherborn, Shirley, Shrewsbury, Somerset, Somerville, South Hadley, Southampton, Southborough, Southbridge, Southwick, Spencer, Springfield, Sterling, Stoneham, Stoughton, Stow, Sturbridge, Sunderland, Sutton, Swampscott, Swansea, Taunton, Templeton, Tewksbury, Tisbury, Topsfield, Townsend, Tyngsborough, Upton, Uxbridge, Wakefield, Walpole, Waltham, Ware, Wareham, Warren, Webster, Wenham, West Boylston, West Bridgewater, West Brookfield, West Springfield, Westfield, Westford, Westminster, Westport, Westwood, Weymouth, Whitman, Wilbraham, Wilmington, Winchendon, Winthrop, Woburn, Worcester, Wrentham and Yarmouth.

Please continue wearing a mask, washing hands and maintaining social distancing.

Stay safe and healthy!

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