Bruce Ruck, managing director of the New Jersey Poison Control Center (NJPIES), is used to high call volumes. But the volume of calls that have been coming into the center’s COVID-19 hotline over the past year about the coronavirus – which has infected 800,000 New...
A new consensus study report by the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering and Medicine – Impact of COVID-19 on the Careers of Women in Academic STEMM – identifies, names, and documents how the COVID-19 pandemic disrupted the careers of women in academic STEMM...
In an attempt to ensure the effectiveness of their COVID-19 vaccines against new variants of the novel coronavirus, both Pfizer and Moderna are testing a third booster shot of their respective two-dose vaccines. On February 25, Pfizer announced that it is studying a...
COVID-19 can be thought of as a game of chicken, except instead of driving head-on towards each other and betting the other person will swerve at the last minute, we’re going out when we should be staying home and foregoing social distancing, masks and hygiene...
As the state waits for more doses of COVID-19 vaccine to get in the pipeline, new threats of a surge in cases of the disease loom due to the emergence of worrisome variants. More than 50 cases of a variant first detected in the U.K. have been found here, according to...
