by Pamela Dahlen | Feb 9, 2021 | Community, Covid, News
Is America’s vaccination effort reaching all of those who need to be vaccinated now? From what we have seen, the answer is no. A column in USA Today highlights the need to make the vaccine rollout a model of American public health. One’s health and well-being should...
by Pamela Dahlen | Feb 4, 2021 | Community, Covid, News
Modeling COVID-19 Dynamics and Patterns Across New Jersey: Assessing Effects of Heterogeneities, Exposure Controls and Social and Environmental Factors. Presented By: Professor Panos G. Georgopoulos, PhD COVID-19 has created an unprecedented global public health...
by Pamela Dahlen | Feb 3, 2021 | Community, Covid, News
A column by Bob Atkins, Rutgers associate professor of nursing and childhood studies, and director of New Jersey Health Initiatives, highlights the need to take the vaccine to those most hard-to-reach, rather than expect them to come to vaccine sites. Read the Full...
by Pamela Dahlen | Jan 28, 2021 | Community, Covid, News
New Jersey has administered more than 310,000 doses of the COVID-19 vaccine. But a very small percentage has gone to the African American and Latino populations. Only 4 percent have been administered to Black people and 5 percent to Latinos, according to data from the...
by Pamela Dahlen | Jan 26, 2021 | Community, Covid, News
A local group called Healthy Little Havana is zeroing in on their community with a very specific assignment: convincing residents to get a coronavirus test. The group’s outreach workers have been heading out almost daily to walk the quiet residential streets, to...
