Source: MSN.com More than 2 million New Jerseyans are now eligible to get booster shots of the Moderna or Johnson & Johnson COVID-19 vaccine following the federal Centers for Disease Control’s approval Thursday night. Health officials are urging those eligible to get boosters as soon as possible as colder weather and holiday gatherings will force […]
Source: Patch.com The second largest hospital system in New Jersey has confirmed it fired 118 employees who refused to get the COVID-19 vaccine, In total, 124 RWJ Barnabas staffers have been fired for refusing to get the vaccine. RWJ Barnabas gave its 35,000 employees a deadline of Oct. 15 to present proof of vaccination. So […]
Sources: ABC 7 NYC; New Jersey Mental Health Association There was an intimate community gathering at a now very special place in Mahwah, New Jersey. “You can sit and reflect on all the pandemic has cost each one of us,” said Phil Colella. What was once all brush is now a beautiful path in Winter’s […]
Source: The Monty News.org Montgomery NJ community members came together at Princeton Elks Lodge in Skillman to reflect on the pandemic and look to the future ahead. As travel resumes and schools and businesses reopen, pre-pandemic normalcy is returning. However, Montgomery Deputy Health Officer Devangi Patel says, “Everyone has been so isolated, we haven’t had […]
Source: North Jersey.com With millions of New Jersey residents who received Pfizer’s COVID vaccine now eligible for boosters, providers are making plans to offer them to people who meet the federal criteria. New Jerseyans who are 65 and older, or who are moderately to severely immunocompromised, can find a vaccination site and book an appointment […]
Source: Columbia University Irving Medical Center 9/11 changed Americans’ perceptions about their sense of security, the threat of terrorism, and their place in the world, and the attack’s impact on the mental health of New Yorkers was unprecedented. Hundreds of thousands of New Yorkers were affected because they were in Lower Manhattan at the time, […]