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New Jersey Department of Education Postpones Spring 2021 Statewide Assessment

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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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CDC Inadvertently Admits the Masks Everyone has Been Wearing are Largely Ineffective

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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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CVS Health Expands Access to COVID-19 vaccines

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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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Acting Superintendent Dr. Gorman Provides an Update on the Ridgewood Schools Pandemic Response Plan

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Ridgewood NJ, Dr. Gorman provided an update on the pandemic response plan, beginning with a data summary. While Ridgewood has not had any COVID transmissions in school, there have been 131 transmissions in schools around the state. Our region and the state remain at the “orange” or “high” level for COVID activity. Between 25-50% of Bergen County schools are in a virtual setting.
George Washington Middle School transitioned to remote on the 5th of February .

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Ridgewood Health Department : Yes, You Will Get Your Second Dose

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Ridgewood NJ, the Village of Ridgewood is making good on second vaccine doses .  Those who received their first COVID19 vaccines at the Ridgewood clinic that they will also receive their second vaccine, on their assigned date, at the Ridgewood clinic. This is because we have been guaranteed that we will receive second doses of the vaccines. Stay well and be safe.

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RIDGEWOOD HEALTH DEPARTMENT COVID19 VACCINE CLINIC

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Ridgfewood NJ, according to Village Manager Heather A. Mailander on December 10, 2020 the Village of Ridgewood Health Department was certified by the State of NJ to operate a Covid19 Vaccine Clinic. The authorization was a result of months of planning, filing of required paperwork, and ensuring appropriate staffing. Ridgewood was able to achieve approval because the Village maintains a local health department.

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“DOUBLE MASKING”, increased effectiveness questioned by medical professionals

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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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Government Ordered Lock Downs Severely Harm the Poorest Citizens

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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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Independent Hearings Launched on Murphy Administration’s Flawed COVID-19 Response

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Trenton NJ, Senate Republicans will hold independent hearings into the Murphy Administration’s flawed response to the COVID-19 pandemic to provide impacted residents and families the opportunity to share their stories and ongoing concerns.

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UK Researchers Study the Efficacy of Vaccination Using Doses from 2 Different Vaccines

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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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COVID Outbreak : George Washington Middle School Goes Full Remote

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Ridgewood NJ, upon completion of the investigation pertaining to recent positive COVID cases, George Washington Middle School will transition to all remote learning effective Monday, February 8, 2021 through Thursday,
February 11, 2021.

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Johnson & Johnson Requests Emergency Use Authorization from FDA for One Dose COVID Vaccine

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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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MONMOUTH NATIONAL POLL: 1 IN 4 SAY ‘NO THANKS’ TO VACCINE

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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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Governor Lifts 10:00 p.m. Curfew In Time for Super Bowl

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Ridgewood NJ,  Governor Phil Murphy today signed Executive Order No. 219, which increases indoor capacity limits from 25 percent to 35 percent for several businesses, including food and beverage establishments and entertainment and recreational businesses, effective Friday, February 5 at 8:00 a.m. The Executive Order also lifts the 10:00 p.m. curfew for in-person indoor restaurant service, however local officials may continue to regulate the hours of operation of indoor restaurant service and indoor operations of other non-essential businesses after 8:00 p.m., as they have been able to since November 12. The prohibition on seating at indoor bar areas remains in effect.

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Ridgewood Health Department has a Limited Supply of Covid 19 Vaccines for Ridgewood Residents

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Ridgewood NJ, the Ridgewood Health Department has a limited supply of Covid 19 vaccines for Ridgewood residents. If you are a Ridgewood resident, you can email [email protected]. Leave your name, address, phone number, date of birth, reason you fit the qualification (age, COPD) race and ethnicity. Our Health Department is doing its best to administer them as quickly as possible. If they can schedule you for an appointment, they will email you. Please understand that this may take several weeks, and an appointment is not guaranteed.

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