by William Jester | Sep 15, 2020 | Community, Covid, News
One day in March, Diana Berrent woke up with a fever and “felt like an elephant was sitting on my chest.” An international photographer and mom of two who lives in a New York City suburb, Berrent found out she had a moderate case of COVID-19. “I was...
by Pamela Dahlen | Sep 14, 2020 | Community, Covid, News
Researchers studying COVID-19 now are able to access an innovative new analytics platform that contains clinical data from the electronic health records of people who were tested for the novel coronavirus or who have had related symptoms. Part of the NCATS National...
by William Jester | Sep 14, 2020 | Community, Covid, News
Sitting and standing shoulder to shoulder, some without face masks, hundreds of supporters of President Donald Trump jammed into an airplane hangar for an Arizona campaign event this week, ignoring the advice of Trump’s own health experts. Like his boss, Vice...
by William Jester | Sep 10, 2020 | Community, Covid, News
NJ Advance Media has launched a daily coronavirus question, a service in which our reporters provide answers to commonly asked questions about the epidemic that has hit hard in New Jersey.Today’s coronavirus question is answered by Martin Blaser, director of Rutgers’...
by William Jester | Sep 8, 2020 | Community, Covid, News
On August 3, epidemiologist and Rutgers School of Public Health dean Perry N. Halkitis appeared on CNN’s Erin Burnett OutFront nightly news program and talked about the increasing number of coronavirus cases in New Jersey and around the country. He said that New...