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Greater Lawrence Family Health Center’s Rich Napolitano, senior vice president of external relations and chief strategy office, presents the Making a Difference Award to Health and Human Services Secretary Marylou Sudders. (Courtesy photograph.)
Massachusetts Health and Human Services Secretary Marylou Sudders was awarded Greater Lawrence Family Health Center’s Making a Difference Award last Thursday for her “tireless leadership through the pandemic.”
The Health Center, which operates primary care offices and pharmacies in Lawrence, Methuen and Haverhill, said during the online presentation that Sudders helped Massachusetts emerge as a leader in COVID response, first with testing and now with vaccine distribution.
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Mass. Health and Human Services Secretary Marylou Sudders. (Courtesy photograph.)
Greater Lawrence Family Health Center honors state Secretary of Health and Human Services Marylou Sudders when it hosts its 16th Annual Making a Difference Gala next month.
The event, taking place online this year, honor Sudders “for her tireless work to protect the residents of the Commonwealth throughout the COVID-19 pandemic” as head of the state’s COVID-19 Response Command Center. She oversees 12 agencies and MassHealth, with a combined budget of $24 billion and 22,000 public employees delivering essential services touching one in four residents.
“As health centers across the Commonwealth have been called upon to navigate the unchartered waters of COVID-19, Marylou Sudders has continued to be one of our strongest supporters as she has been for so many years. GLFHC is grateful for the secretary’s leadership and the difference she has made in the lives of so many of our
Dr. Wayne Altman said he has been receiving 400 vaccine doses a week to administer at his Arlington practice.Pat Greenhouse/Globe Staff
Back in March, when most people hunched over laptops for hours, frantic to schedule a vaccine appointment, John Brenner got a phone call that made it all so easy.
It was his doctor, family physician Wayne Altman, inviting him in for a COVID-19 shot. On a Sunday morning, he drove 10 minutes to the doctorâs office in Arlington and received the vaccination in his car from a staff member he knew well. âIt couldnât have been easier,â said Brenner, a retired biology teacher who suffers from an anxiety disorder that makes it difficult to mingle with strangers.
CVS, Walgreens to start administering Johnson & Johnson COVID vaccine again
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CVS and Walgreens are slated to begin administering the Johnson & Johnson coronavirus vaccine again after the federal government temporarily pressed pause on the use of the vaccine due to concerns about blood clots developing in a small number of inoculated women, WCVB reported.
The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and Food and Drug Administration announced Friday the federal government will resume the use of the single-shot Johnson & Johnson COVID-19 vaccine. The CDC and FDA had recommended the pause out of an abundance of caution due to the extremely rare but severe type of blood clot, called cerebral venous sinus thrombosis or CVST, reported in six women nationwide.