by William Jester | Nov 1, 2020 | Community, Covid, News
Rutgers expert warns not to delay visits and offers solutions to stay safe when seeing your physician in person The COVID-19 pandemic has left many people with chronic health conditions relying on telemedicine rather than seeing their doctor in person when necessary...
by William Jester | Nov 1, 2020 | Community, Covid, News
On a Thursday evening in late February, commuters stood tightly jammed in the waiting area known as “the pit” in New York’s Penn Station, as equipment and operational snags forced the cancellation of train after train. Each announcement of a platform immediately set...
by William Jester | Oct 31, 2020 | Community, Covid, News
Health officials are urging people to get vaccinated for the flu, fearing COVID-19 and flu cases could become a “twindemic” that would overburden the nation’s health care and testing system. The flu is a serious virus in its own right: Up to 56 million people...
by William Jester | Oct 30, 2020 | Community, Covid, News
Penny Shaw, 77, who lives in a long-term care facility in Braintree, Massachusetts, normally votes at a polling place she can get to easily in her electric wheelchair. This year, Shaw had to come up with a new plan. Braintree officials changed polling place locations...
by William Jester | Oct 30, 2020 | Community, Covid, News
After President Donald Trump contracted COVID-19 and 34 people connected to the White House were infected, there is speculation that a Rose Garden ceremony introducing U.S. Supreme Court nominee Amy Coney Barrett might have been a coronavirus “superspreader”...