Feb 24, 2022
Dr. Lisa Piercey, Tennessee’s Health Commissioner, says the increased availability of oral antiviral medications doesn’t lessen the need for vaccines to fight COVID-19; Cortney Lovell, co-founder of Our Wellness Collective, says she hopes a new training program will inspire public health professionals to explore recovery peer services for people struggling with substance use; and ASTHO teams with the CDC to write an article for the Journal of Women’s Health about a program that sent field staff to five states to help pregnant and post-partum people and infants exposed to opioids and other substances.