by William Jester | Apr 30, 2020 | Community, Covid, News
There is mounting interest for researchers to start conducting studies with humans as soon as possible to find a vaccine and therapeutic treatments that are safe and effective, write Hastings Center research scholars Karen Maschke and Michael Gusmano, who also is an...
by William Jester | Apr 25, 2020 | Community, News
The pandemic is just starting to be examined through a racial-equity lens, write Nancy Cantor and Peter Englot, the chancellor and senior vice chancellor for public affairs, respectively, at Rutgers University–Newark. The disparate effects on health, jobs, housing,...
by William Jester | Apr 24, 2020 | Covid, News
A new saliva test for the coronavirus developed by Rutgers University could more than double the amount of daily testing in New Jersey, with results in less than 48 hours, providing hope for a rapid expansion of testing as part of a larger strategy to reopen the...
by William Jester | Apr 24, 2020 | Community, Covid, News
Rutgers New Jersey Medical School (NJMS) announced this weekend that its 192 final-year students will graduate early and be eligible to begin their residencies and provide critical health care as the world combats the global COVID-19 pandemic. The students would have...
by William Jester | Apr 23, 2020 | Community, Covid, News
When COVID-19 forced students home, the university’s once-bustling computer labs fell silent, and more than 1,250 computers sat unused. Now the computers are at work once again, helping researchers around the globe fight the very disease that displaced students across...
