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Tewksbury PD completes crisis training through Front Line Initiative
Through a grant through the Massachusetts Department of Mental Health, Tewksbury police officers as well as those in surrounding towns, completed 35 hours of crisis training which aims to improve outcomes when those in crisis are dealing with law enforcement. Additionally, the officers were trained on connecting residents to mental health care after the initial […]
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Large study finds reduced school transmission with universal masking
Pediatrics, a peer reviewed journal affiliated with the American Academy of Pediatrics has accepted for publication a study that finds that school districts that practiced universal masking had a 72% reduction in in-school transmission vs districts that utilized partial masking i.e. optional, optional masking prior to universal masking or only masking at certain grade levels. […]
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H5N1 Eurasian Flu
I’ve been working in health care long enough to remember the H5N1 of 2007; we were scrambling to get the vaccine for our HIV patients and prioritizing patients by CD4 count. The current avian flu is a Eurasian strain of H5N1 closely related to the previous strain. It is very low risk to humans (our […]