Massachusetts is under a state of emergency, but that isn’t stopping essential workers from braving whiteout conditions and hurricane-force winds today.
A powerful Nor’easter is expected to blanket the region with up to 2 feet of snow. Boston Mayor Michelle Wu has urged all residents to stay home if possible. Flights and Amtrak trains have largely ground to a halt, and hundreds of thousands of households have lost power.
Early this morning, though, hundreds of doctors, nurses and other medical professionals still trudged through the dense snow in Boston’s South End as they made their way to Boston Medical Center for shifts at New England’s largest safety-net hospital…