– Medical personnel from Cambridge Health Alliance and Tufts Medical Center who cannot return home to potentially vulnerable family members in high-risk populations;

– First responders from the cities of Somerville and Medford who cannot return home to potentially vulnerable family members because they are awaiting test results, have tested positive and need to isolate, and/or have vulnerable family members who belong to high-risk populations;

– Tufts staff members whose presence is required on campus and who have either had an exposure to a COVID-19 positive person or who prefer to stay on campus so as to not risk infecting family members who have compromised immune systems or other risk factors.

Mayor Curtatone’s statement: “One of the biggest challenges we’re trying to tackle at the moment is finding space for the coming patient surge and for housing front line health and emergency workers. We are incredibly fortunate to have a partner like Tufts to step up to help us tackle the enormity of this task. We’re never going to know the exact number of lives this will save, but it’s a number we never want to know. Hopefully what Tufts is doing here becomes a model for college campuses across the state, region, and country.”