Veterinarians, teachers, other groups push for earlier access to vaccines
By Deanna Pan Globe Staff,Updated January 28, 2021, 4:44 p.m.
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Veterinarian Brian Bourquin has never been busier. With a new crush of âpandemic pets
â to tend to, he has seen calls to his Boston Veterinary Clinic soar 400 percent, and heâs worked weekends, hired more staff, and opened a third location just to keep up.
Despite the precautions Bourquin has taken, COVID-19 exposure lurks in every client interaction and staff procedure. So he was dismayed upon checking the stateâs timeline detailing when heâd be eligible to receive the vaccine. Veterinarians, he saw, are listed under Phase 3, expected to start in April, along with the general public, college administrators, and bottled beverage
When Dr. Alastair Cribb was born 60 years ago, the midwife on duty wanted to rush the birth before his father got home.
That’s because she was afraid his father, Dr. Peter Cribb, a veterinarian with a practice in the family home in Yorkshire, England where Alastair’s birth took place would treat his newborn son like a just-born calf. There was fear he would hold Alastair upside down to drain amniotic fluid from his lungs. And, stimulate his nose so he would take his first breath.
That’s how Dr. Cribb handled the birth of Alastair’s older sister.