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Trenton NJ, a published report exposing the shocking admission by a high-ranking aid to Governor Cuomo that New York intentionally withheld “the state’s nursing home death toll from COVID-19” may raise serious questions about the reliability of New Jersey’s data, Senator Joe Pennacchio said.
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Hackensack NJ, Hackensack Meridian Health, the largest and most integrated health network in New Jersey, announced today that it has administered its 100,000th COVID-19 vaccine on February 12, 2021. The network reached this major milestone just two months after it launched its vaccination deployment program on December 15, 2020.
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Ridgewood NJ, the CDC finally recognized that the masks they’ve had everyone wearing for the better part of a year are largely ineffective because aerosols easily go around the top and sides. Time to nail this down, so to speak. Their latest recommendation is “placing a sleeve made of sheer nylon hosiery material around the neck and pulling it up over either a cloth or medical procedure mask” or using knots and tucking to fit a mask closely to the face.
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Ridgewood NJ, DOUBLE MASKING The idea of “double masking”—ie, wearing 2 masks on top of one another rather than a single mask—has emerged over the past week or so in the US. The idea itself is not new, but it gained attention following recent comments by Dr. Anthony Fauci in support of wearing multiple masks. Dr. Fauci’s comments reference emerging SARS-CoV-2 variants that appear to be more transmissible than those circulating earlier in the pandemic, which could necessitate enhanced risk mitigation measures to sufficiently reduce transmission risk. Wearing an extra mask aims to provide additional layers of filtration for inhaled and exhaled air with the ultimate goal of further decreasing SARS-CoV-2 transmission risk.
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Ridgewood NJ, Dr. Jay Bhattacharya, is a professor of medicine at Stanford University and one of the co-authors of The Great Barrington Declaration which argues for protecting the most vulnerable from COVID rather than using economic lockdowns.
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Ridgewood NJ, “Liberals” claim to be all in favor of democracy and civil liberties. But they have largely been unperturbed by the steep worldwide decline in both caused by their lockdowns.
Continue reading Democracy Index : U.S. Now Ranks As A “Flawed Democracy” As Liberty Retreats
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Ridgewood NJ, according to Johns Hopkins Center for Health Security researchers in the UK are initiating a clinical trial to evaluate the efficacy of vaccination using doses from 2 different vaccines. Allowing (or potentially recommending) individuals to receive 1 dose each from 2 different vaccines could introduce flexibility into vaccination programs and potentially even increase the degree of protection from the vaccination. The UK government has allocated approximately £7 million (US$9.6 million) to fund the study, and early data could be available by this summer. The study aims to include more than 800 participants aged 50 years and older who have not yet been vaccinated.
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New Brunswick NJ, Johnson & Johnson (NYSE: JNJ) (the Company) today announced that Janssen Biotech, Inc., has submitted an application to the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) requesting Emergency Use Authorization (EUA) for its investigational single-dose Janssen COVID-19 vaccine candidate. The Company’s EUA submission is based on topline efficacy and safety data from the Phase 3 ENSEMBLE clinical trial, demonstrating that the investigational single-dose vaccine met all primary and key secondary endpoints. The Company expects to have product available to ship immediately following authorization.
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West Long Branch NJ, More Americans express concern about the impact of Covid-19 now than at any time during the pandemic according to the Monmouth (“Mon-muth”) University Poll. President Joe Biden gets positive marks for his first steps in dealing with the crisis, although most continue to say the American public is not doing its part. A bare majority of the public is ready to get the coronavirus vaccine as soon as it is available to them, while others take a wait-and-see attitude and a sizable 1 in 4 say they will avoid getting the vaccine at all if they can help it.
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Ridgewood NJ, COVID cases appear to have peaked around January 6 or so nationally. In the two weeks since that peak, it has been all downhill with cases, percent positive, emergency room visits, and hospitalizations dropping substantially. Nationally hospitalizations have declined for the 23rd straight day!
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NEW BRUNSWICK NJ, Johnson & Johnson (NYSE: JNJ) (the Company) today announced topline efficacy and safety data from the Phase 3 ENSEMBLE clinical trial, demonstrating that the investigational single-dose COVID-19 vaccine in development at its Janssen Pharmaceutical Companies met all primary and key secondary endpoints. The topline safety and efficacy data are based on 43,783 participants accruing 468 symptomatic cases of COVID-19.
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GAITHERSBURG MD, Novavax, Inc. (Nasdaq: NVAX), a biotechnology company developing next-generation vaccines for serious infectious diseases, today announced that NVX-CoV2373, its protein-based COVID-19 vaccine candidate, met the primary endpoint, with a vaccine efficacy of 89.3%, in its Phase 3 clinical trial conducted in the United Kingdom (UK). The study assessed efficacy during a period with high transmission and with a new UK variant strain of the virus emerging and circulating widely. It was conducted in partnership with the UK Government’s Vaccines Taskforce. Novavax also announced successful results of its Phase 2b study conducted in South Africa.
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Ridgewood NJ, Health “experts” now claim two masks are better than one. Following the razor blade theory of the more blades give you a closer shave Dr. Anthony Fauci doubled down on masks on Monday saying two face masks are better than one. The “infectious diseases specialist” advised that double-masking is a logical way to curb the spread of the coronavirus.
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Trenton NJ, for those New Jerseyans who have received the first Covid-19 vaccine dose, there’s another wave of confusion about how to get the second dose within the recommended time frame.
Assembly Republican Leader Jon Bramnick is calling for Legislative hearings to fix the problem.
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Hackensack NJ, The Pfizer-BioNTech and Moderna COVID-19 vaccines were given Emergency Use Authorization (EUA) from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) in mid-December 2020. Prior to authorization by the FDA, these vaccines underwent the same rigorous safety and effectiveness standards as all other vaccines. Quickly, vaccine distribution began, starting with health care professionals on the frontlines of patient care.
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