The event was moderated by WBGO afternoon news anchor/reporter and
Newark Today producer
Dr. Shereef Elnahal, CEO and President of University Hospital and Newark and
Dr. Chris Pernell, a public health doctor and administrator at University Hospital in Newark, were also guest panelists.
Dr. Pernell gave an emotional response to why she got involved in the clinical vaccine trials. Last spring and last March the epicenter of this unprecedented public health crisis and pandemic landed on New Jersey and New York. It didn t only land on New Jersey, it landed on Newark. It landed on me. I lost my father to this pandemic. So, imagine I m working in one hospital and four miles away my father is fighting for his life in another hospital. I can t physically see him. So, I needed a way to pay forward my father s legacy.
NJ COVID vaccine: Number of vaccinations began to drop in recent days
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Two major Eastern universities announced recent resumptions of in-person campus dining following temporary suspensions due to COVID-19 outbreaks. The University of Delaware resumed in-person dining on campus as of 8 a.m. on Saturday, April 17 at all campus dining halls and food courts, though with reduced seating and designated entrances. Syracuse University restarted in-person dining at 50% capacity two days later at all campus dining centers after halting it on March 17 as Covid-19 cases on campus skyrocketed.
Universal free school meal bill introduced in Massachusetts state legislature
A pair of Massachusetts state lawmakers have introduced a bill in the state legislature to make school meals free for every student beginning in July 2022, permanently expanding the universal free meal program put in place temporarily by the federal government in response to the COVID-19 pandemic. Massachusetts follows California, which recently had similar legislation introduced in its state leg