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In March, nearly 40 individuals from across the country will meet with their legislators to urge Congress to take bipartisan action to prioritize the battle against antibiotic resistance: a looming global health threat that threatens the future of modern medicine. As part of The Pew Charitable Trusts’ Stand Up to Superbugs initiative, this year’s ambassadors include health care professionals, public health officials, scientists, farmers and ranchers, veterinarians, superbug survivors, and people who have lost loved ones to an antibiotic-resistant infection. They will meet virtually with federal agency leaders and members of Congress to share their superbug stories and expertise, and urge increased commitment and momentum to preserve the effectiveness of existing antibiotics and develop urgently needed new ones.
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With the production of the COVID-19 vaccine, the end of the pandemic is on the horizon. While there s still a long way to go, University of Rhode Island College of Pharmacy faculty and staff members continue their efforts to hasten the end of the deadly pandemic, training pharmacists and pharmacy technicians to administer the vaccine.
Under new COVID health regulations, pharmacy technicians are allowed to administer the vaccine, necessitating training for those who hadn t previously vaccinated. They join pharmacists, who were granted the right to vaccinate in Rhode Island about 10 years ago. Mary-Jane Kanaczet, director of the College s Office of Continuing Professional Development for the Health Professions, received a license from the American Pharmacists Association to provide the training, and taught 33 pharmacy techs and 29 pharmacists recently, including Paul Larrat, dean of the College of Pharmacy.
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With the arrival of the COVID vaccine in December, people across the country and around the world could finally begin to see a light at the end of the tunnel. But the end is not here yet. Between the approval of various vaccines and the possible eradication of the disease itself, there is much to do.
What does history tell us about previous mass vaccination efforts? Who gets the vaccine and when? Once vaccinated, do those vaccinated have different rights and freedoms from other people? Why is close to half the population hesitant to get vaccinated? When will herd immunity be achieved?
more than 300 patients at full capacity. URI professors and students
are helping run the pharmacy there.URI
College of Pharmacy Clinical Assistant Professor Todd Brothers is coordinating
the pharmacy inside the COVID-19 Field Hospital in Cranston, along with several
URI faculty members and students.
Several
University of Rhode Island College of Pharmacy students and professors have
stepped up to fight the COVID-19 pandemic at the Care New England Field
Hospital in Cranston, including Clinical Assistant Professor Dr. Todd Brothers
who is coordinating pharmacy efforts there.
“Seeing
these people step up not just pharmacy but nursing, physicians, everybody
everybody is rowing this boat in the right direction,” Brothers said. “We all