by Pamela Dahlen | May 31, 2021 | Community, Covid, News
Colorado Mesa University and the Broad Institute of M.I.T. and Harvard have spent the last year exploring new approaches to managing outbreaks. Together, the institutions have turned C.M.U.’s campus of 10,000-plus students into a real-world, real-time epidemiological...
by Pamela Dahlen | May 30, 2021 | Community, Covid, News
The Emergency Broadband Benefit, or EBB, was launched May 12 to help a surprisingly wide range of people hit economically by the coronavirus pandemic. It can pay $50 every month toward the cost of Internet service, and it is available to all families who lost some...
by William Jester | May 30, 2021 | Community, Covid, News
Testing for COVID-19 could soon be as easy as blowing into a tube. Researchers at Rutgers University are working to develop a non-invasive, rapid COVID-19 test that can detect the virus and other respiratory illnesses in minutes, similar to a blood alcohol content...
by Pamela Dahlen | May 29, 2021 | Community, Covid, News
THE CONVERSATION / LA CONVERSACIÓN campaign addresses information needs about the COVID-19 vaccines in the Latino community with new videos featuring doctors, nurses and promotoras (community health workers) in English and Spanish. Read the Full Article. To bring the...
by William Jester | May 29, 2021 | Community, Covid, News
As our various cities, states, regions, and nations start to reopen at full capacity, Rutgers University’s Dr. Peter Economou not only expects us — as individuals and a collective society — to struggle to return to our pre-pandemic lives but he also thinks we...
