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Covid-
19: With Concert Experiments Succeeding, Big Shows Could Return This Fall, Fauci Says
Successes with experimental concerts in Spain and Germany have convinced Dr. Anthony Fauci that big shows could return to the U.S. this fall -- provided Americans reach an effective level of herd immunity. “I think you can start getting back to almost full capacity of seating,” the nation's top infectious disease expert said during a virtual live event over the weekend. “What the performing arts needs to do is to do a little bit more of what the Germans are doing,” Fauci noted. A controlled experiment in Germany featuring a show by pop singer Tim Bendzko safely accommodated about 1,400 at…
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'Raise Your Sleeves': Six Vaccine Mega Sites Coming Next Month To New Jersey
Six vaccine "mega sites" are expected to open across New Jersey in early January, Gov. Phil Murphy announced during Friday's COVID-19 briefing. The sites will be able to inoculate frontline healthcare workers, and will accommodate essential workers before moving to adults over the age of 65 and those with high-risk medical conditions. The news comes three days after a nurse at University Hospital in Newark became the first New Jersey resident to receive Pfizer's vaccine. Since then, "healthcare heroes" have been vaccinated at Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital in New Brunswick, Atlant…
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Nurse Celebrates Birthday By Becoming First NJ Healthcare Worker To Get
Covid-
19 Vaccine
University Hospital nurse Maritza Beniquez beamed and clapped her hands, as she became the first healthcare worker in New Jersey to receive the COVID-19 vaccine Tuesday morning. Her 56th birthday. "This is the best birthday present ever!" the frontline nurse said with state officials by her side. "I couldn't wait for this moment to hit New Jersey. I couldn't wait for this moment to hit the U.S... to have this vaccine." University Hospital was one of six in the state to receive the Pfizer vaccine Monday, and an additional 53 hospitals in New Jersey were expected theirs later this…
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Update
: NJ Hospitals Await First Batch Of
Covid-
19 Vaccines
NOTE: A spokeswoman for Hackensack University Medical Center said Friday that the hospital hadn't yet received the initial doses of COVID-19 vaccines. "We do NOT have any vaccine at this point nor does anyone else in NJ," said the spokeswoman, Mary Jo Layton. This corrects a previous story published here following what staffers said was a notification that initial shipments of the vaccines had arrived and will continue to do so. ****** HUMC was expected to be among the first hospitals in New Jersey to receive the COVID-19 vaccine. Officials couldn’t provide an exact number, although …
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NJ Health Dep't: Measles Exposure At Newark Airport
Newark Airport travelers may have been exposed to measles at the end of May, state health officials said. A traveler with the highly-contagious disease arrived at Terminal B from Tokyo, Japan on May 29 at 5 p.m., the state's health department said. The traveler later left for Quebec, Canada from Terminal A. Anyone in the airport between May 29 at 5 p.m., and May 30 at 3:30 p.m. may have been exposed to measles and, if infected, could develop symptoms as late as June 20. New Jersey residents identified as potentially exposed on the ill individual’s flights will be notified by their local he…
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Update
: Five Mumps Cases Confirmed At Bergen County Jail, Lockdown Continues
Five Bergen County Jail inmates were confirmed with mumps, authorities said Friday. "The Bergen County Department of Health Services has received confirmation of five of the 6 suspected cases of mumps in the Bergen County Jail with no additional cases at this time being reported," said Michael Pagan, a spokesman for County Executive Jim Tedesco. "A sixth suspected case was negative." A lockdown continued at the jail. The lockdown will be lifted on July 6 if no new cases are found, authorities said. "Isolation means no additional inmates accepted and no one out until we're comfortable that…
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