by William Jester | Apr 13, 2020 | Community, Covid, News
Now, we are entering allergy season and more people will be sneezing and coughing because of pollen. But not all of us who hack and sneeze have or are spreading coronavirus. I asked a Rutgers University medical expert on the front lines to help separate fact from...
by William Jester | Apr 12, 2020 | Community, Covid, News
The Rutgers Cancer Institute of New Jersey announced it has begun a clinical trial that will examine whether an anti-malaria drug doctors are administering as an off-label use to treat the coronavirus is more effective when taken with an antibiotic. Clinical trials...
by William Jester | Apr 12, 2020 | Community, Covid, News
Like most other aspects of health care, social determinants of health play a role in the COVID-19 pandemic. In the United States, testing strategies do not reflect the level of infection in poor communities, according to Richard Marlink, director of Rutgers Global...
by William Jester | Apr 11, 2020 | Community, Covid, News
Epidemiologist Henry Raymond, associate professor in the School of Public Health, is among the experts who warn that the long term trajectory of COVID-19 is still unclear. An indicator that social distancing measures are working should be if new hospitalizations...
by William Jester | Apr 11, 2020 | Community, Covid, News
Thousands of samples can be analyzed daily. Rutgers’ RUCDR Infinite Biologics has launched a test for the SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus and is using its automation experience and infrastructure to test as many as tens of thousands of samples daily. RUCDR has also submitted...
