Walsh Expands CVS COVID Testing to Three Boston Neighborhoods, Joins Citizenship Fee Lawsuit

Uncategorized 2026-07-22 clip9054 · Meeting of July 22, 2026

BOSTON — Mayor Walsh expands COVID-19 testing and files federal brief opposing citizenship fee hike. At a September 2020 press briefing, Mayor Martin J. Walsh announced that CVS would expand drive-in COVID-19 testing from one West Roxbury pharmacy to three additional locations — 4600 Washington Street in Roslindale, 207 Market Street in Brighton, and 181 Brighton Avenue in Allston-Brighton — beginning the next day, targeting neighborhoods where the positive test rate had climbed to between 4 and 5 percent.

The citywide positive rate stood at 2.8 percent for the week ending September 12, up from 1.5 percent, with 48 percent of new cases occurring in residents under 30. Walsh also announced that the city had filed an amicus brief in federal court backed by 33 cities and counties, the U.S. Conference of Mayors, and the Metropolitan Area Planning Council, opposing a federal rule set to take effect October 2 that would raise the citizenship application fee from $725 to $1,200 and eliminate fee waivers for most low-income applicants.

Melanie Torres, Executive Director of Project Citizenship, said 65 percent of the organization's roughly 250 recently served clients are low-income and would lose access to the citizenship process under the new fee structure.

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Source: the Uncategorized 2026-07-22 clip9054 meeting of July 22, 2026, reported from the official video recording and transcript.