by Pamela Dahlen | May 15, 2020 | Community, Covid, News
3D-Printed Face Shields and Eye Shields Provide Help During COVID-19 Pandemic When Joseph S. Hanna purchased his first CR-10 3-D printer roughly four years ago, he never imagined he would one day be using the hobby he loves to have an impact in his chosen profession....
by William Jester | May 14, 2020 | Community, Covid, News
A recent COVID-19 rapid test that received Food and Drug Administration (FDA) emergency use authorization includes technology invented by Rutgers University researchers, which will be used in about 50,000 tests produced per day by a global health care leader. The...
by William Jester | May 13, 2020 | Community, Covid, News
A county-by-county analysis of the United States by Princeton University researchers suggests that rural counties with high populations of people over 60 and limited access to health care facilities could eventually be among the hardest hit by the coronavirus pandemic...
by William Jester | May 13, 2020 | Community, Covid, News
Mask, eye shield, cap, gown, gloves. Evaluate patient. Remove gear. Dispose. Wash hands. Sanitize. Repeat. This has been my norm for the past two weeks for at least 20-30 patients a shift at the Emergency Department (ED) at Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital in...
by William Jester | May 12, 2020 | Community, Covid, News
New Jersey governor Murphy also announced the state is allocating $6 million in federal funding to Rutgers University to boost its ability to produce its rapid saliva tests from 10,000 tests a day to 50,000 tests a day within the next six to eight weeks. Expanding...