Tag: COVID-19
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Your Turn: Reminder to parents about health and safety guidelines in South Brunswick schools
As we see the year coming to a close, health and safety remains at the forefront as we reflect back on the past week’s recent events related to weapons in schools along with the continued struggle and spike in cases with regard to COVID. I would be remiss if I didn’t say that our…
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Health Department: Hopewell Township’s COVID-19 cases on the rise
The Hopewell Township Health Department is reporting a steady increase in the number of COVID-19 cases in the community. In the latest Health Department report of COVID-19 cases, 31 new cases had been reported in the two weeks leading up to Nov. 19. On Nov. 8, 19 new cases were reported for the previous two…
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Health Matters 11/19: Pediatric COVID-19 Vaccine: What Parents Should Know
By Bert Mandelbaum, MD In less than a month since the Food and Drug Administration authorized the Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine for children ages 5-11, nearly 1 million youngsters have already received their first shot. The company Moderna is still undergoing clinical trials to determine the effectiveness of its COVID-19 vaccine for this age…
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Princeton Public School District arranges for vaccination clinics for students, families and staff
The Princeton Public Schools and the Princeton Health Department are teaming up to offer free COVID-19 vaccinations to the school district’s students, families and staff – including 5-11-year-old students, according to school district officials. Superintendent of Schools Carole Kelley announced the two impending vaccination clinics at the Princeton Public Schools Board of Education’s Nov. 9…
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Physicians recall emotional first wave of novel coronavirus pandemic
In the initial weeks of the novel coronavirus pandemic, healthcare professionals were scrambling to take care of their patients as best they could. The evolving COVID-19 virus with no known initial treatment left them “physically and emotionally” exhausted. Newspaper Media Group’s The Criterion Sentinel interviewed a group of female physicians, who Amie Thornton, president of…
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Health Department ready to administer Pfizer vaccine to children ages 5-11
Princeton children ages 5-11 will be able to receive the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine after the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)’s recent approval of vaccinations for children in this age group. The CDC announced on Nov. 2 the recommendation that all children ages 5-11 can receive the low-dose pediatric vaccine by Pfizer-BioNTech. According to the…
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Saint Peter’s to offer first dose of Pfizer vaccine to children 12 and older
Saint Peter’s University Hospital is hosting a first-dose Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine clinic for individuals 12 years of age and older from 5-7 p.m. Nov. 16 in the Sister Marie de Pazzi Conference Center, 254 Easton Ave., New Brunswick. Walk-ins are welcome at first-dose vaccine clinics. To schedule an appointment, visit https://www.zocdoc.com/vaccine Second-dose vaccines will be scheduled…
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Your Turn: School resource officers ready to help children cope with post-pandemic challenges
Deadly school shootings that started with Columbine High School in Littleton, Colorado, in 1999 forever changed the way police officers across New Jersey, and America, safeguard our school children. Now, to help school children rebound from the emotional fallout of the deadly COVID-19 pandemic, the role of today’s specially-trained school resource officers (SROs) must evolve…
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Physicians publish study comparing first and second waves of COVID-19
LONG BRANCH – The latest published study by Monmouth Medical Center physicians showcasing COVID-19 research compares the demographic characteristics, clinical presentation and disease severity of the second wave of COVID-19 with the first wave in the United States. The manuscript, “Variation in Clinical Characteristics, Outcomes and Mortality of Hospitalized Patients with COVID-19 During the Second…