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Trenton NJ, During its meeting on February 3, 2021, the New Jersey Civil Service Commission adopted a new rule providing COVID-19 Paid Leave for State employees. This temporary rule provides State employees in the Career, Unclassified and Senior Executive Service with two new types of COVID-19 Paid Leave: COVID-19 Sick Leave and COVID-19 Family Leave.
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Morris Plains NJ, as Darlene Pallay continues to wait on the legal process of her Appellate Division case against Gov. Phil Murphy and pandemic shutdowns near their one-year anniversary, the
former business owner of the CKO Kickboxing Franklin franchise remains in limbo while she tries to recover from the domino effect of the business shutdowns, with her husband also recently laid off from his job.
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Ridgewood NJ, according to Johns Hopkins Center for Health Security on February 9, the US FDA issued an Emergency Use Authorization (EUA) for Eli Lilly’s monoclonal antibody cocktail of bamlanivimab and etesevimab as a treatment for COVID-19. The EUA specifically authorizes the treatment for “mild to moderate” COVID-19 in adults and pediatric patients aged 12 years and older who are “at high risk for progressing to severe” disease.
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Ridgewood NJ, some good news for nursing homes for a change. Despite the defective policies from Governor Cuomo ,Murphy and Wolf , vaccines seem to be the answer. A new study from AHCA/NCAL, the nursing home trade association, found that vaccinated nursing homes experienced a 48% decline in new resident cases three weeks after their first clinic, compared to a 21% decline among non-vaccinated nursing homes located in the same county. This suggests that deaths are going to start falling fast.
Partnership between the County of Bergen and Bergen New Bridge Medical Center offers drive-thru COVID-19 PCR testing at Bergen Community College
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Paramus NJ, The County of Bergen in collaboration with Bergen New Bridge Medical Center announce February 2021 dates for drive-thru COVID-19 testing at Bergen Community College, 400 Paramus Rd, Paramus, N.J. The program will now offer COVID-19 Nasopharyngeal Diagnostic PCR tests providing results in 24-48 hours tests on the following days below for the month of February:
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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.
February 11, 2021
Members of the Rutgers Community:
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Trenton NJ, Governor Phil Murphy today announced Executive Order No. 220, which enables indoor and outdoor youth sporting events to allow parents or guardians to attend practices or competitions. The executive order will take effect immediately.
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Ridgewood NJ, The New Jersey Department of Education (NJDOE) recognizes that the disruption to education due to the COVID19 pandemic persists as schools and districts prepare for the spring 2021 assessment administration. While the United States Department of Education (USED) has not indicated that it will allow states to waive their statewide assessment obligations for the 2020-2021 school year, the NJDOE has heard requests from many stakeholders to explore all options regarding flexibilities prior to administering the statewide assessment systems. To further explore options, including flexibilities regarding the use of statewide assessment data in federal accountability systems – and to ease the burden of preparing for and administering assessments while these options evolve – the NJDOE is postponing the planned start date of all assessments and plans to begin statewide assessment
administration no earlier than April 5, 2021.
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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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Mahwah NJ, Starting Thursday, February 11, CVS Health (NYSE: CVS) will begin to offer COVID-19 vaccinations to eligible populations at a limited number of CVS Pharmacy locations across 11 states. Supply for the initial rollout, which is sourced directly from the federal government through the pharmacy partnership program, will be approximately 250,000 total doses. As more supply becomes available the company will expand to additional states while increasing the number of stores offering vaccinations.
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