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Life expectancy fell by 1.5 years in 2020, mostly due to COVID-19. Here’s what that really means
Black and Hispanic people were especially hard-hit, though improvement is expected in 2021. Life expectancy declined 1.5 years in the United States in 2020 and by twice that much for Black and Hispanic people, largely due to the surge in deaths from COVID-19, federal...
What to Know Now About COVID Breakthrough Cases and the Delta Variant.
About 57% of Americans ages 12 and up have been fully vaccinated against COVID-19, according to the CDC, but a small percentage of those people are still testing positive for the virus. We asked Dr. Reynold Panettieri, professor of medicine and pulmonary physician at...
Camden Barbers Become Messengers of COVID-19 Vaccine Importance, Thanks to Innovative Collaboration.
Barbershop owners in Camden – like in many U.S. cities – are known as key influencers in the city, their shops being hubs of community conversation and information. True to form, a group of Camden barbers have now taken on the role of community ambassadors for the...
New NJACTS Publication – NJ HEROES TOO Project
Please read Dr. Jimenez' article in JAMA Network titled "Black and Latinx Community Perspectives on COVID-19 Mitigation Behaviors, Testing, and Vaccines". Key Points Question What are the experiences of Black and Latinx communities during the COVID-19 pandemic, and...
New NJACTS Publication
Please read Dr. Dave's article in Pharmacoepidemiology and Drug Safety titled, "Risk of clinically relevant hyperglycemia with metoprolol compared to carvedilol in older adults with heart failure and diabetes." The prevalence of diabetes among older adults is...
Veggie Rx Promotes Connections Between Food and Health
The “Garden State” is home to more than 9,000 agricultural farms and is one of the country’s top producers of blueberries, cranberries, spinach, bell peppers, and peaches. However, according to a report by the Community FoodBank of New Jersey, more than 1.2 million...
Opinion: Ignoring mental health infrastructure will be a costly mistake
The author highlights that in modern America, 350,000 people with mental illness are in jails or prisons (often for nuisance crimes that could easily have been avoided had treatment been available); 250,000 of them are homeless; and the average life span of those with...
COVID-19 Vaccine Booster Doses May Soon Be a Reality. Here’s What Experts Know So Far.
Now that the Delta variant of the novel coronavirus is the most common strain responsible for new infections throughout the United States, experts are beginning to push for a booster shot of the COVID-19 vaccines, no matter which option you received. Pfizer announced...