by William Jester | Mar 24, 2021 | Community, Covid, News
Last March, if someone told you schools would cease in-person instruction because of a global pandemic, you probably wouldn’t have believed them. But that’s the unprecedented reality parents nationwide were forced to face when COVID-19 swept across the...
by William Jester | Mar 24, 2021 | Community, Covid, News
Within the next two weeks, spring allergies could begin to take hold in New Jersey, and although we are in a much different place with COVID-19 than we were a year ago, a leading state allergist and immunologist said the 40% of Americans who claim to have pollen...
by William Jester | Mar 24, 2021 | Community, Covid, News
Domestic violence incidents in the United States increased by 8.1 percent after COVID-19 lockdown orders, according to a new study. The increase in cases of domestic violence began to rise last spring, as stay-at-home orders began confining people to their homes,...
by William Jester | Mar 23, 2021 | News
Please read Dr. Jimenez’s article in Maternal and Child Health Journal titled, “Ready and Healthy for Kindergarten: A Bilingual Family Literacy Program in Primary Care”. Children from low-income Latino backgrounds experience persistent gaps in school...
by William Jester | Mar 22, 2021 | Community, Covid, News
In September 2020, six months into the coronavirus pandemic, the number of Americans experiencing depression and anxiety hit an all-time high, according to the non-profit advocacy group Mental Health America. More recently, in December, 51% of adults surveyed by the...
