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Reports of excess doses brings lines to vaccination site

Long lines formed and confusion spread at a mass coronavirus vaccination site in Massachusetts when news spread that there were extra doses available to people who had not made appointments. Curative, the company operating the site at a Danvers hotel, didn’t want the additional doses to go to waste, so workers told patients who were […]

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Britain lines up 40 mln more vaccine doses from Valneva

The British government has exercised an option to buy 40 million more doses of a COVID-19 vaccine being developed by the French-Austrian group Valneva for delivery next year, the company said Monday. London announced in September it had agreed to buy as many as 190 million doses from Valneva in a deal worth up to […]

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Coffee Shop Workers on Front Lines of Opioid Crisis

MONDAY, Sept. 24, 2018 — New research suggests that employees in coffee shops and fast food places can be trained to respond to opioid overdoses at their places of business. “Because opioid overdoses may occur in public bathrooms, business managers and staff unwittingly become first responders. Providing training to service industry employees on how to […]