by William Jester | Dec 29, 2020 | Community, Covid, News
In the early days of the COVID-19 pandemic, tens of thousands of young volunteers offered to risk their health by letting scientists intentionally infect them with the pandemic coronavirus, hoping to speed the hunt for a vaccine or treatment. Several research groups...
by William Jester | Dec 28, 2020 | Community, Covid, News
Since then, University labs have delivered more than 3,000 reusable face shields to hospital staff in the emergency department and other areas of Penn Medicine Princeton Medical Center, as well as 1,500 specialized covers for the powered air purifying respirators...
by William Jester | Dec 28, 2020 | Community, Covid, News
It’s a rare glimmer of hope in a brutal and battering pandemic year: in November, both Moderna and Pfizer reported that their much-anticipated COVID-19 vaccines are 95% effective in protecting people against getting sick with the disease. Scientists were encouraged...
by William Jester | Dec 27, 2020 | Community, Covid, News
A more centralized, uniform response to combating the COVID-19 pandemic in American prisons and jails is required to curb the spread across an especially vulnerable incarcerated population, according to new Rutgers University–Camden research. “The American criminal...
by William Jester | Dec 27, 2020 | News
Please read Dr. Hudson’s article in Academic Pediatrics titled, “Latino Parents’ Experiences With Literacy Promotion in Primary Care: Facilitators and Barriers”. Literacy promotion is a pediatric standard of care in which clinicians provide guidance...
