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Governor Murphy Caves to Teachers Union on School Personnel Vaccine Mandate

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Trenton NJ, in what can only be perceived as caving in to pressure from the NJEA (NJ teachers Union ) Governor Phil Murphy today signed Executive Order No. 253, requiring all preschool to Grade 12 school personnel to be fully vaccinated against COVID-19 by October 18, 2021 or be subject to COVID-19 testing at minimum one to two times per week. This requirement will strengthen protections against the spread of COVID-19, including the highly transmissible Delta variant, to children in school settings, many of whom are under 12 years old and not yet eligible for vaccination.

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FDA Gives Full Approval to Pfizer’s COVID-19 Vaccine

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Washington DC, today, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration approved the first COVID-19 vaccine. The vaccine has been known as the Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 Vaccine, and will now be marketed as Comirnaty (koe-mir’-na-tee), for the prevention of COVID-19 disease in individuals 16 years of age and older. The vaccine also continues to be available under emergency use authorization (EUA), including for individuals 12 through 15 years of age and for the administration of a third dose in certain immunocompromised individuals.

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When “Follow the Science” Becomes “Follow The Money”

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Ridgewood NJ, on Saturday , we ran a story on the Ridgewood blog on how scientists mishandled and effectively derailed the initial inquiry into the origins of the SARS-CoV2 virus.

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Call For Booster Shots Reignites Criticism about Global Vaccine Inequity

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Ridgewood NJ, the Ridgewood blog reported on August 17th that the CDC now says people who are moderately to severely immunocompromised are especially vulnerable to COVID-19 because they are more at risk of serious, prolonged illness. Studies indicate some immunocompromised people don’t always build the same level of immunity after vaccination the way non-immunocompromised people do.

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Wuhan Virus Coverup Turning Into An Epic Scandal

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Ridgewood NJ, Nicholas Wade, a top science writer who has worked for the New York Times as well as Nature and Science magazines, has a blockbuster piece in  Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists on the origins of the Wuhan virus.

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SCAM ALERT : Email from FTC Chair Lina Khan about Coronavirus money is fake!

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by Alvaro Puig
Consumer Education Specialist, FTC

Ridgewood NJ, Scammers are impersonating FTC Chair Lina Khan in a new phishing scheme. The email says the FTC wants to send you Coronavirus relief funds and tells you to send some personal information, like your name, address, and date of birth. The FTC is not distributing Coronavirus economic stimulus or relief money to people. The email is a scam. Don’t reply.

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Governor Murphy Expected to Announce NJ Teacher Vaccine Mandate

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Ridgewood NJ, according to multiple sources  Governor Phil Murphy is expected to announce that all teachers including Ridgewood teachers will be required to get the COVID-19 vaccine this school year.

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New Rules Bar Most African Americans Form Bars, Gyms, Theaters, and Museums in New York City

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New York NY, New York City has become the first major city to require proof of COVID vaccination in such indoor venues as bars, gyms, theaters, and museums.

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CDC : People who are moderately to severely immunocompromised are especially vulnerable to COVID-19

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Ridgewood NJ, the CDC now says people who are moderately to severely immunocompromised are especially vulnerable to COVID-19 because they are more at risk of serious, prolonged illness. Studies indicate some immunocompromised people don’t always build the same level of immunity after vaccination the way non-immunocompromised people do.

CDC recommends that people with moderately to severely compromised immune systems receive an additional dose of mRNA COVID-19 vaccine at least 28 days after a second dose of Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine or Moderna COVID-19 vaccine.

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Israel to become first in world to test oral COVID-19 vaccine

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Israel  , Oravax is testing an oral vaccine in preclinical trials against Covid-19 variants. The vaccine is based on an oral delivery technology that can be used to administer several protein-based therapies that would otherwise be delivered by injection. It targets three structural proteins of the novel coronavirus and should be more resistant to variants. An oral vaccine would be easier to distribute, and people would be able to self-administer it at home. Oral medications tend to have fewer side effects.

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Attorney Says Hospitals Lack of Action led to Women’s Death from COVID

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Ridgewood NJ, Attorney John Coyle joined Bill Spadea  on NJ 101.5 . According to Coyle his clients mom was hospitalized at the Valley Hospital in Ridgewood with COVID and her primary care physician prescribed Ivermectin which has been shown to be very effective against COVID and has saved lives, according to a rising number of doctors across the world.

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“Experts:” Cast Doubt on “Herd Immunity” but Sweden Proves them Wrong

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Ridgewood NJ, Consensus is forming among public health experts and scientists worldwide: the highly transmissible Delta variant of SARS-CoV-2 changed the COVID-19 pandemic, dashing hopes of widespread vaccination creating herd immunity that could protect people from infection and guaranteeing the novel coronavirus will become endemic. While the vaccines are highly effective at preventing serious illness or death, they do not fully protect the vaccinated from infection. Additionally, people who had previous SARS-CoV-2 infections are not necessarily protected from infection from future variants.

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Fake COVID-19 vaccination cards are widely available

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Ridgewood NJ, as more employers, universities, and venues in the US and Europe implement vaccine mandates, officials are warning of a rise in fake SARS-CoV-2 vaccination certificates. According to investigators and cybersecurity experts, the past few weeks have seen a number of ways to purchase counterfeit vaccine cards on social media, messaging apps, and the dark web. While the European Union has a digital vaccine passport system that assigns a unique QR code to each individual, the US relies on paper cards distributed by the US CDC, which are easy to forge and were never intended to be used as proof of vaccination. Some US states are working to implement digital verification systems, but other states have outlawed the use of such systems or implemented punishments for businesses and other entities that ask for proof of vaccination.

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Tensions Rise Over NFL Vaccine Rules

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East Rutherford NJ, as if the NFL didn’t already have enough to worry about, tensions are running high in the NFL over COVID-19 vaccinations, with a vocal minority of players and coaches criticizing rules mandated by the league that is intended to raise the vaccination rate of team players and staff.

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Time for Real Science , Not the Governor Murphy “Science”

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Sommerville NJ,  Jack Ciattarelli, Republican candidate for New Jersey Governor, released the following statement ahead of Phil Murphy’s announcement of a mask mandate for New Jersey’s public school students:

“Governor Phil Murphy has done it again. His decision to require masks for K-12 students is a bewildering reversal of his position of just a few weeks ago. Let me be clear, I oppose Governor Murphy’s mask mandate for students. The science is clear: nearly all children who contract COVID-19 are asymptomatic or mildly symptomatic and wearing masks for children is terrible for their social and emotional development. Bottom line, whether a child wears a mask should be decided by parents, not government. If someone wants to have their child wear a mask, they should feel free to do so, but it’s not something that should be forced on children, nor should their learning be inhibited in any way. Finally, this feels like the first step towards another Murphy lockdown, which is something our children, businesses, and taxpayers cannot afford or are willing to accept.”

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