Is the next wave of COVID upon us? After a nearly month long plateau, it looks that way. New Jersey has had the highest rate of new COVID infections in the nation for a week now. On Tuesday, more new cases were reported — 4,378 — than on any day since Jan. 30. But...
In 1986, when Jeffrey Kwong (DNP, MPH, AGPCNP-BC, FAANP, FAAN) was working as a volunteer at an HIV community organization in Northern California, the words “HIV” and “aging” were rarely spoken together in the same sentence. Back then, a diagnosis of the disease that...
While the COVID-19 vaccine is the best way to beat the pandemic, many want to know if a business or school can require you to get vaccinated. The road back goes down an essential path as universities have jumped to the forefront, requiring students get immunized...
The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has identified around 5,800 confirmed cases of COVID-19 among people who were fully vaccinated, multiple outlets report. Of the cases — which the CDC refers to as “breakthrough infections” — 396 developed...
It’s been over a year since the World Health Organization declared COVID-19 a pandemic. And while average daily cases in the U.S. are still hovering at a high number – nearly 60,000 per day – there are signs that some individuals are ready to travel again,...
