On March 4, 2020, a 32-year-old physician’s assistant from Fort Lee became the first person in New Jersey diagnosed with a disease that would claim more than 33,000 lives in the state, upend its economy, disrupt the education of millions of its children and sorely...
New COVID variants are like iPhone software updates: They all seem super similar, and most of us don’t keep up with them anymore. So in case you didn’t get the memo, there’s a potentially concerning new variant, Omicron XE, which some fear might be the most contagious...
It took less than three weeks from the time the first case of coronavirus emerged in the United States for Rutgers University leaders to prepare its response to what would be one of the worst crises in world history. And it took just another two weeks for it to put...
Please read Dr. Kipen’s article in the Annals of the American Thoracic Society titled, “Presence of SARS-CoV-2 Aerosol in Residences of Adults with COVID-19.” Although vaccines are effective at preventing coronavirus disease (COVID-19), uncertainty...
An NJIT computer scientist studied COVID vaccine data from Minnesota to design equitable methods of distributing vital resources during any widespread emergency. The resulting algorithm showed that giving everyone equal access to vital resources isn’t...
