New Jersey’s COVID-19 public health emergency ends Monday, the same day the state lifts the mask mandate for schools and child care centers. The end comes nearly two years after it was implemented to give the state flexibility in its pandemic response. But Gov. Phil...
Maria Venetis got a breakthrough case of COVID-19 right around New Year’s Eve. When she called friends to cancel plans, she found herself overexplaining how and where she might have caught the virus—until one friend cut her off. “It doesn’t really matter,” Venetis, an...
On March 4, 2020, a 32-year-old physician’s assistant from Fort Lee became the first person in New Jersey diagnosed with a disease that would claim more than 33,000 lives in the state, upend its economy, disrupt the education of millions of its children and sorely...
Seven in 10 Americans believe COVID-19 is here to stay, and we need to “get on with our lives,” according to a Monmouth University Poll released in late January. Still, a topic that persists is masks — many strongly oppose mask mandates, citing them as an infringement...
The vaccine boosters made by Pfizer and Moderna provide strong protection against serious illness from COVID-19 and hospitalization. But their protection does wane over time, according to a Centers for Disease Control and Prevention study published earlier this...
