Massachusetts Governor Maura Healey issued a statement Wednesday that pharmacies statewide will still be required to stock essential family planning medications, despite national efforts to ban them.
Massachusetts ordered 59,475 doses of the Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine Friday, the first shipment of 300,000 total vaccines the state expects to receive from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention by the end of December.
The distrust and vaccine hesitancy among the general public speaks to how long it will take to return to any semblance of normalcy. If we want to see pre-pandemic life restored by the end of next year, we’ll need a unified, national effort to continue wearing masks, practice social distancing and get vaccinated as soon as we’re able.
Netflix released their newest true-crime documentary, “The Pharmacist,” which aims to show that drug addiction can affect everyone, illustrating that no one is left unharmed when associated with someone who has a toxic relationship with drugs.
Weining Lu, an associate professor in the BUSM, was named BU’s Innovator of the Year Thursday for his work developing a new medicine for chronic kidney disease.
