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COVID-19 vaccinations to begin in long-term care facilities
Residents of the Princeton Care Center nursing home and the Acorn Glen assisted living facility, along with healthcare workers, are expected to receive the first COVID-19 vaccinations as the inoculation program rolls out during the week of Dec. 28, Princeton officials announced.
Arrangements have been made for the CVS and Walgreens drug store chains to administer the vaccinations – which come in two doses, 21 to 28 days apart – to the nursing home and assisted living facility residents.
Although people over 65 years old make up close to 10% of the world’s population, they account for about 40% of all COVID-19 cases and about 80% of all COVID-19 related deaths, said Dr. George DiFerdinando, who chairs the Princeton Board of Health. He is a physician and adjunct professor at Rutgers University School of Public Health.
Exposure to metals such as nickel, arsenic, cobalt, and lead may disrupt hormones during pregnancy, according to new research.
Exposure to metals has been associated with problems at birth such as preterm birth and low birth weight in babies, and preeclampsia in women. However, little is known about how metals exposure can lead to such problems. The new research shows that some metals may disrupt the endocrine system, which is responsible for regulating our body’s hormones. These disruptions may contribute to children’s later health and disease risk.
“A delicate hormonal balance orchestrates pregnancy from conception to delivery and perturbations of this balance may negatively impact both mother and fetus,” says lead author Zorimar Rivera-Núnez, an assistant professor in the department of biostatistics and epidemiology at the Rutgers University School of Public Health.
UD assistant professor Kyle Davis is part of a study that looked at how to ensure that food supply chains are still able to function under environmental shocks â such as droughts, disease or extreme heat among others â and highlighted key areas where future research should be focused.
Secure food supply chain
UDâs Kyle Davis investigates how to make the global food supply more resilient
As the world grows increasingly globalized, one of the ways that countries have come to rely on one another is through a more intricate and interconnected food supply chain. Food produced in one country is often consumed in another country â with technological advances allowing food to be shipped between countries that are increasingly distant from one another.
The trend may be more prevalent in those who already own firearms, the researchers report.
The study in the
Journal of Psychiatric Research shows that people intending to acquire a firearm in the next 12 months have less tolerance for uncertainty, have exaggerated threat expectancies, and are experiencing more severe COVID-19 specific fears.
“…the 2020 purchasing surge seems to be prompted by a sense that times are stressful and the world is unsafe.”
They also were more likely to have experienced suicidal ideation in the past year, to have worked in law enforcement, and to have worked at jobs considered essential during COVID-19.