In June 2020, Michelle Chason tested positive for COVID-19. Even after she felt better and had a negative test, she still experienced lingering symptoms, including brain fog, short-term memory loss, intensified acid reflux and tingling and numbness on the left side of...
Millions of older Americans, chronically ill and trapped at home, pose a big challenge to inoculation efforts. Doctors are on it. At least two million Americans are homebound, a population all but invisible. Most suffer from multiple chronic conditions, but cannot get...
Disruptions to daily routines, stress from remote learning, social isolation and anxiety over illness during the pandemic are taking a toll on children’s mental and behavioral health, leading to physical problems such as weight gain from overeating. Mamilda Robinson,...
Last March, if someone told you schools would cease in-person instruction because of a global pandemic, you probably wouldn’t have believed them. But that’s the unprecedented reality parents nationwide were forced to face when COVID-19 swept across the...
Within the next two weeks, spring allergies could begin to take hold in New Jersey, and although we are in a much different place with COVID-19 than we were a year ago, a leading state allergist and immunologist said the 40% of Americans who claim to have pollen...
