by William Jester | Jan 21, 2021 | Community, Covid, News
The Rutgers Global Health Institute Student Council has organized a volunteer effort to help the university execute its COVID-19 testing strategy. The university offers SARS-CoV-2 PCR saliva testing (for the active virus that leads to COVID-19) to employees and...
by William Jester | Jan 20, 2021 | Community, Covid, News
Rutgers Global Health Institute director Richard Marlink is among the “experts, pundits, and social media users” interviewed for a national story about U.S. Congress members being among the first to receive coronavirus vaccines. In the following excerpt, he discusses...
by William Jester | Jan 20, 2021 | Community, Covid, News
When Gambia received its first shipment of 36,000 doses of COVID-19 vaccine in March through the global initiative COVAX, the mood at the West African country’s Health Ministry was upbeat. “We gave people their first doses, and told them the date to come back for the...
by Pamela Dahlen | Jan 19, 2021 | Community, Covid, News
Hear from the experts about the COVID-19 Vaccine on January 24th, 2021, 7:00 pm. Speakers: Pierre Vigilance, MD, MPH, Assoc. Dean for Practice at the George Washington University School of Public Health Karma B. Warren, MD, FAAEM, President of the Essex County (NJ)...
by William Jester | Jan 19, 2021 | Community, Covid, News
The COVID-19 pandemic has had both a positive and negative impact on medical research in 2020, delaying some trials while streamlining the process for others, according to experts. The complexities of the pandemic, and quick shift in research focus toward better...
