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My parents are vaccinated for COVID, but I am not. Is it safe to visit? Updated Jan 28, 2021; Posted Jan 28, 2021 Somerset County drive thru coronavirus vaccination site prep area at Raritan Valley Community College in Branchburg. (Ed Murray)Ed Murray | NJ Advance Media for NJ.com Facebook Share Many families have been apart from their loved ones for months because of the coronaviruspandemic. No hugs from grandkids. Instead, we’ve waved through windows, Zoomed and socially distanced outside when as the weather allowed. So when will it be safe to see your parents and grandparents? Do you s...

A new COVID testing method is more accurate. But it’s rather, um, intimate. Updated Jan 29, 2021; Posted Jan 28, 2021 A medical student drops a nose swab sample on a testing panel for the novel coronavirus in Nagykallo, Hungary.AP Facebook Share Snickers aside, the policy is a real one — in China at least. The Communist superpower is rolling out an expanded COVID-19 testing program to include anal swabs for high-risk patients, calling it a more accurate method than nasal and throat testing, according to a report by The Washington Post. The myriad puns aside, China health experts believe...

Here are the 5 COVID variants, including 1 that has recently made its way to New Jersey Updated Jan 28, 2021; Posted Jan 28, 2021 Dr. Anna Padykula injects a woman with the COVID-19 vaccine at the Hartung Recreation/Health Center in Kearny on Jan. 21, 2021. Facebook Share Multiple variants of the coronavirus are spreading around the world. According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, it is in viruses’ nature to constantly mutate, meaning new strains of a virus are expected to occur over time. Sometimes these variants disappear after they emerge, and other times they persi...

Medical experts said the risk remains when vaccinated and unvaccinated people get together and the risk cuts both ways.

How the new coronavirus variants affect us here in NJ New coronavirus strains continue to be identified across the globe, especially in the United Kingdom, South Africa and Brazil. The new variants have even reached New Jersey with two cases so far being reported. David Cennimo, assistant professor at Rutgers New Jersey Medical School and pediatric infectious disease expert, said most people would define a variant as something that has changed enough that we have to be uniquely aware of it. The variant first seen in the U.K. is the most studied and the most well understood. British health off...