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Black Business Owners Had a Harder Time Getting Federal Aid, a Study Finds
Black business owners are more likely to be hindered in seeking coronavirus financial aid than their white peers, a new study has found. The study looked at how more than a dozen Washington-area banks handled requests for loans under the federal government’s Paycheck...
COVID-19 Travel Patterns in New Jersey
At the height of the coronavirus shutdown in the spring, travel to more than 150,000 points of interest throughout New Jersey, including retail, health care, food stores and other essential and non-essential establishments decreased up to 80 percent compared to the...
Deciding whether to send your child back to school? Here’s what the experts say to consider
Hudson County parents have a deadline looming for a big decision: whether to send their kids to school for in-person learning. Hoboken parents have been asked to submit their decisions by Friday and other local districts have said families will soon also have the...
What Does ‘Covidiot’ Mean, and Who Qualifies as One?
The coronavirus pandemic has added another new word to the dictionary. When COVID-19 first became a global pandemic earlier this year, people scrambled to keep up. Suddenly, formerly household items like hand sanitizer and toilet paper became hot commodities, and...
NJ ACTS Workshop – Machine Learning with Python: An Introduction
Join us for an introductory workshop on Machine Learning with Python! The New Jersey Alliance for Clinical & Translational Sciences Workforce Development Core at Rutgers University is offering a workshop opportunity for all to gain hands-on experience while...
Rutgers University scientists rule out asthma as a trigger for contracting COVID-19 or affecting its severity
Asthma does not appear to increase the risk for a person contracting Covid-19 or affect its severity, according to new research. The team from Rutgers University in the US found that people with asthma - even those with diminished lung function who are being treated...
How to Live in Our New Normal With COVID-19
As the coronavirus pandemic continues to spread rapidly across many parts of the United States – breaking records for new cases every day – questions loom about what the future will look like. Martin Blaser, director of Rutgers’ Center for Advanced Biotechnology and...
Tracking COVID-19 with a new app that assures user privacy
A team of Rutgers professors developed the COVID Nearby app to help monitor the spread of coronavirus with a guarantee of privacy to individuals reporting information. The app will also provide researchers with insights about the privacy preferences of individuals...