We have hired a pediatric nurse practitioner, Lauren Marchetti, APRN. She will be functioning as a primary care provider (PCP), seeing children for both sick and well visits.
The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has given approval, by emergency use authorization (EUA), on the COVID vaccines made by Pfizer and Moderna in children 6 months to 5 years of age.
The best scenario that we can hope for is that everyone follows the guidelines of wearing mask at all times in public, keeping physically distant, and washing/disinfecting hands often.
Over the past month, the state of Massachusetts has seen a reduced number of people testing positive for COVID-19 and has started to allow reopening of businesses.