COVID-19 risks reemerge at nursing homes as workers decline vaccine and new residents struggle to get shots
Facilities are âa petri dish where we could have a resurgenceâ
By Kay Lazar Globe Staff,Updated May 8, 2021, 1:48 p.m.
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A team of pharmacists from CVS, including Taline Tokatlian at center, prepared to vaccinate residents of Life Care of Acton in December, when the state aggressively pushed for protection for nursing home residents across the state.Suzanne Kreiter/Globe staff
It was a battle many thought we had already won. Residents of nursing homes, the people most at risk of dying in the COVID-19 pandemic, were among the first to get vaccinated last winter, leading to a dramatic decline in new infections.
Melissa Sherman Melissa Sherman joins Destination Caldwell and Indian Creek Plaza as the event manager, leading all aspects of events including planning, staffing, vendors and entertainment. She served as the seasonal event coordinator at Lovely Hollow Farm, as well leading Malheur County as the 4-H educator and County Fair organizer. She has received awards including the “Achievement in Service” from the National Association of Extension 4-H agents and the “Diversity/Inclusion” award from Oregon State University Extension Association of 4-H. She and her husband, Jason, have previously owned a livestock company. She received her Bachelor of Science in Agricultural Education from the University of Idaho.
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If your family loves snow, you’re likely going to have a blast this Family Day Monday amid a snowfall warning issued for the London area.
Environment Canada is calling for two rounds of snow Monday and into Tuesday, bringing up to 25 cm of snow.
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The first snowfall is expected to bring 5 cm of snow to the area by mid-day Monday, with areas near Lake Erie receiving up to twice that amount.
âThere are a lot of people who canât get to Fenway or Gilletteâ: Some residents feel overlooked in vaccine rollout
Thousands who canât easily leave home struggle to get their shots
By Kay Lazar Globe Staff,Updated February 14, 2021, 4:33 p.m.
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If anyone has experience overcoming obstacles
, itâs John Chappell. The 77-year-old Hanover resident, who is a paraplegic, is a former deputy commissioner of a state agency designed to help disabled people.
Yet Chappell, who is now president of an advocacy group called
the Disability Policy Consortium, is struggling to get a COVID-19 vaccine because he is bedbound and canât find a way to get the shot at home.
MOBILion Systems and Protein Metrics join forces to integrate the Byos Software Suite with high-resolution ion mobility mass spectrometry
Industry News: MOBILion Systems and Protein Metrics join forces to integrate the Byos Software Suite with high-resolution ion mobility mass spectrometry
27 Jan 2021
Protein Metrics and MOBILion Systems have announced their strategic partnership to provide data analysis modules for Protein Metrics’ Byos software suite that work exclusively with MOBILion’s High-Resolution Ion Mobility (HRIM) Mass Spectrometry (MS) System. This combination of data analysis and high-resolution analysis of multiple Critical Quality Attributes (CQA) is designed to accelerate biotherapeutic drug development and enhance characterization capabilities that affect product quality, safety, and efficacy.