Since the pandemic, the workload for pharmacists has gone up due to an increase in prescription volume, vaccinations, complicated insurance issues, and corporate-driven performance metrics.
COVID-19 booster shots have officially rolled out for Moderna and Johnson & Johnson, joining Pfizer’s booster in the effort to better protect Americans from.
More people in Massachusetts appear to be taking advantage of the state’s increased focus on walk-in vaccination clinics.On May 10, all seven of the state’s mass COVID-19 vaccination sites started offering walk-in service. Gov. Charlie Baker also began shifting more vaccine doses to smaller settings such as regional collaboratives, pharmacies and doctors’ offices.Union Pharmacy in Newton has about 60 people per day walking in either to receive a COVID-19 vaccine or to make a vaccination appointment.“I tried to schedule my initial one sort of using (online) scheduling, and my first vaccine would have been today. And here I am using walk-in and I got my second one already,” said Mike Silvestri, who got both doses of the COVID-19 vaccine at Union Pharmacy along with his wife, Liza.“We’re excited to be able to be freer,” Liza Silvestri said. Anthony Petrillo, a pharmacy intern at Union, says Baker’s decision to drop all of the state’s COVID-19 restrictions on May
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Coney Island s eccentric orchestra is back: Roller coaster carts tick up, up, up and then plummet and swerve along winding tracks. Rides hum, buzz and creak to the beat of carnival music.
After a year of being shut down due to the pandemic, Coney Island s two amusement parks, Luna Park and Deno s Wonder Wheel Amusement Park, have reopened at a third of their normal capacity.
At Deno s, kids and adults face off to see who can squirt water into the mouth of a clown fastest and get a balloon to pop like a firecracker.