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...morning quiet with sirens blaring, rushing to take another drunken freshman to UHS. For many inexperienced first-years, these weekends are their first with ready access to alcohol. Thankfully no freshman has suffered permanent injury from alcohol this year, but the danger still looms, especially in the face of high-risk events such as Harvard-Yale. The College needs to make significant changes to encourage alcohol education and the Class of 2008 needs to see these changes...
...High-risk cases are those involving patients who suffer from diseases like cystic fibrosis, kidney disease, lung problems, heart disease, cancer, or who have recently finished being treated for such conditions...
Because UHS originally obtained more units of the vaccine than it needed for its number of high-risk patients, it was in a position to sell excess doses to the commission. Officials at the Boston Public Health Commission said they did not know how much was paid for the vaccines...
John Auerbach, executive director of the Boston Public Health Commission, said that the commission appreciated Harvard’s “civic-mindedness” in selling its excess units of the vaccine. He said that Massachusetts regulations make it illegal to vaccinate high-risk patients during the shortage...
Geyer said he agrees with the decision to sell UHS’s extra flu shots to the Boston commission. “If it will help the city take care of its high-risk citizens, then I think it’s a good idea as long as high-risk students can get the shot too,” he said...