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With half of Americans saying they are very concerned about someone in their family becoming seriously ill from COVID-19, the number of people nationwide who plan to stay home for the Thanksgiving holiday will nearly double this year, according to a new Monmouth University Poll. In all, 74% of Americans will have Thanksgiving dinner in their own home, significantly more than those who say […]
Pfizer and its partner BioNTech today asked the U.S. Food and Drug Administration to allow emergency use of the companies’ new COVID-19 vaccine, which they say has been shown to be safe and 95% effective against the coronavirus in their clinical studies. The FDA process is expected to take a few weeks, and an advisory committee meeting to review the vaccine is tentatively scheduled for early December. This means the vaccine could […]
Stating that private businesses know better than government how to ensure the protection of the health of their customers and employees, Hunterdon County’s freeholders recently voted to refrain from interfering with private businesses’ operating hours. The Board of Chosen Freeholders’ approval of this county policy occurred at its Nov. 17 meeting in response to Gov. Phil Murphy’s Executive Order No. 195 delegating authority to counties and municipalities to regulate the operating […]
During NJBIA’s recent online town hall, business owners discusse the challenges of operating under the state’s one-size-fits-all COVID-19 mandates, as well as the exposure businesses face from lawsuits even when they are following the latest government safety guidelines. Speaking out on these topics were Frank Jones, a partner at Mints Insurance in Millville, and Alan Sobel, managing partner at SobelCo in Livingston, who is also the president of the […]
Leaders of businesses and nonprofit organizations recently discussed the challenges employers are facing during COVID-19 when mental health concerns and the availability of childcare are increasingly important to their efforts to maintain a safe, healthy and productive workplace. Bridget O’Brien, director of SuperKids Child Care & Learning Center in Summit, said the child care industry is facing a “one-two punch.” The first hit was COVID-19’s impact on their industry and the second is from the Murphy […]
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