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BASEL, Switzerland — A new study provides compelling evidence that coronavirus spreads between humans and animals. Researchers studying 16 mink farms in the Netherlands say that SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID-19, was not only transmitted from human to mink, but vice versa. Just about nine months into this pandemic, the scientific community is still unsure…

Educating N.J., a special resource guide created for parents, students and educators. As schools reopen across N.J., we want to know what is and isn’t working. Tell us about it here.Three hundred students were quarantining at New Jersey Institute of Technology in Newark after high levels of COVID-19 were found in the sewage of one of…

People who dine out are at twice the risk of catching COVID-19 than people who don’t, according to a new Centers for Disease Control report that is awful news for local economies and people who enjoy going out.The data, however, makes no distinction between outdoor and indoor dining - and COVID-19 is much harder to…

The more I delve into research from around the world, and the more I listen to the experiences of patients, the more convinced I am of the importance of the way we choose to live our lives over the genes we were born with.The meals we eat and snacks we munch, the hours we spend…

431 new COVID-19 cases confirmed in Massachusetts, 8 additional deaths The Massachusetts Department of Public Health reported an additional 431 confirmed cases of COVID-19 on Friday, bringing the statewide total to 124,570.There were 22,217 molecular tests conducted, with a 1.94% daily positive rate. State health officials also confirmed 8 new COVID-19-related deaths across Massachusetts, bringing…