Also worth noting: the state's Travel Order has been updated to include Missouri, Oregon and Washington as lower-risk states, joining Puerto Rico and Hawaii - which means people don't have to either quarantine or provide a negative test to enter Massachusetts from those states. The criteria for this designation is an average daily incidence rate of less than ten cases per 100,000 population and an average test positivity rate of less than five percent; no New England state, Massachusetts included, currently meets those criteria. (Massachusetts fails the daily incidence number, with 21.4 cases per 100k population.)
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Date: 2021-03-05 10:45 pm (UTC)On the other hand, today Maine added Connecticut, Massachusetts and Rhode Island to its list of no-quarantine states. New Hampshire, of course, is still wide open to all New Englanders; Connecticut will change its quarantine requirement to an advisory on March 19; Rhode Island is open to any state with a positivity rate under five percent; and Vermont, of course, is continuing to require everyone to quarantine.
Ain't federalism wonderful?