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Keerthana Annamaneni was named the 2021 Marshall Scholarship recipient from the British Government. Photo: LinkedIn
Keerthana Annamaneni, Maya Ravichandran and Nitheyaa Shree Ramesh are among the 46 recipients of the 2021 Marshall Scholarships that were unveiled recently by the British government.
The winners were chosen from a record 1,190 applicants for the award, which allows American scholars to study any academic subject for up to three years at a university in the United Kingdom with funding from the British government. The award recipients will begin graduate studies at many of the UK’s top academic institutions beginning in September 2021, according to the press release from Marshal Scholarships.
Hamilton â Following weeks of preparation, Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital Hamilton, an RWJBarnabas Health facility, began administering the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine to its high-risk, frontline employees today. The hospital opened its employee vaccine clinic at 7 am and employees were welcomed with cheers of support from the administrative team and hospital staff.
âBased off of my experience, seeing the destruction and devastation of the virus, I think people should be afraid of getting COVID, not the vaccine,â says Victoria Bradeis, a respiratory therapist at Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital Hamilton. Bradeis was one of the first hospital team members to receive the first dose of the vaccine.
Posted 12/18/20
Governor Phil Murphy, joined by Health Commissioner Judith Persichilli, University Hospital President and CEO Dr. Shereef Elnahal, and Rutgers New Jersey Medical School Dean Dr. Robert Johnson, today visited University Hospital’s Vaccine Clinic at Rutgers New Jersey Medical School to mark the historic beginning of New Jersey’s vaccination effort and witness the administration of the first COVID-19 vaccinations to the state’s frontline health care workers.
“This is a day that we have been waiting nearly a year for, and while we know this isn’t the end, we are witnessing, at the least, a glimmer of hope at the end of the tunnel,”
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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, Atlantic Health in Morristown Medical Center and Hackensack University Medical Center.