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FRIDAY, APR. 3
DAY 40

West Essex Reports As Reported by NJ State Department of Health

🙏🏻  ​CALDWELL
  • Total: 38 Patients
  • 2 Deceased​

🙏🏻 ​ ​CEDAR GROVE
  • Total: 69 Patients
  • 4 Deceased

🙏🏻 ​ESSEX FELLS
  • Total: 13 Patients
  • 1 Deceased

🔷 FAIRFIELD
  • Total: 38 Patients
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🙏🏻 NORTH CALDWELL
  • Total: 21 Patients
  • 1 Deceased

🙏🏻 ROSELAND:
  • Total: 33 Patients
  • 5 Deceased

🙏🏻  VERONA
  • Total: 46 Patients
  • 3 Deceased

🙏🏻  ​WEST CALDWELL
  • Total: 52 Patients​
  • 4 Deceased

THREE VACCINES IN PHASE 1 TRIALS

Apr. 1

40 Vaccines are Currently being Developed
  • 3 of those are in the first phase of human clinical trials
  • Phase 1 is to first make sure the vaccine is safe
  • Phase 2 will test to see if the vaccine is actually effective

Phase 1 testing involves Healthy Adults being given:
  • Low Dose
  • or Medium Dose
  • or High Dose
of the vaccine and then they are monitored for any adverse effects it may have on their body or immunity

PHASE 1 TRIALS:
🔷 "mRNA-1273"
  • Moderna Therapeutics in Cambridge MA was previously working on infectious disease and cancer trials. At this point it's focusing all its attention on creating a vaccine against Covid19
  • Normally tested first on animals, these vaccine trials have gone straight to human testing
  • 45 healthy adult volunteers have been testing the vaccine at Kaiser Permanente in Seattle
  • Each person receives 2 injections
  • Moderna is hoping a vaccine could be available by early Fall even though their Phase 1 testing goes through Jun, 2021

🔷 "Ad5-nCoV"
  • Developed by Beijing Institute of Biotech and CanSino Biologics in China
  • Vaccine will use a "viral vector" which is a virus that is engineered to deliver healthy genetic material to cells
  • 108 healthy adult volunteers have been testing the vaccine at Hubei Provincial Center
  • Globally, many physicians are hopeful that this group will produce the vaccine because a similar one Ad5-EBOV was created to protect against Ebola, which is already in Phase II testing
  • Phase 1 testing should be completed by Dec. 2020

🔷 "ChAdOx1"
  • University of Oxford
  • Phase 1 and Phase 2 trials are being done simultaneously
  • Vaccine uses a viral vector derived from chimpanzees
  • 510 healthy adult volunteers have been testing both the vaccine and a placebo
  • Phase 1 testing should be completed by May 2021
  • Pre-Clinical Vaccination Trials are also taking place in Pfizer, Inovio Pharmaceuticals and Sanofi Pasteur

​Further Information: COVID-19 Vaccine Candidates: Six Front-runners

 EIGHT COVID-19 DRUG
​TREATMENT TRIALS CONTINUE

Apr. 1

REMDESIVIR
  • Developed by Gilead Sciences in Foster City, CA
  • Originally created to treat Ebola
  • Currently in 7 human trials
  • Some Phase 3 results expected in April
  • Can only be delivered intravenously

CHLOROQUINE / HYDROXCHLOROQUINE
  • "klor' oh kwin" branded as Aralen is used to prevent and treat malaria and also rheumatoid arthritis.
  • The similar hydroxychloroquine - named Plaquenil - does the same
  • Korean doctors used these drugs to treat COVID-19 according to a recent medical journal study
  • The effectiveness of the immunosuppressive drugs have not been demonstrated fully, but FDA approved Emergency Use authorization for the drug to be used on specific teen and adult Covid-19 patients
  • Patients take it in tablet form

KEVZARA
  • Developed by Sanofi in Paris and Regeneron in Tarrytown, New York to treat arthritis
  • Being tested in two separate Phase 2 and Phase 3 trials in hospitalized patients with severe Covid-19
  • The drug is an IL-6 inhibitor which fights lung inflammation

ACTEMRA
  • ▪️Developed by Hoffmann-La Roche in NJ to treat arthritis
  • ▪️The drug is an IL-6 inhibitor which fights lung inflammation
  • ▪️China has been using it to treat some Covid-19 patients

KALETRA
  • ▪️AbbVie (Abbott Labs) in North Chicago, IL developed the drug to treat HIV
  • ▪️Trials are continuing but there have been no effective results so far
  • ▪️Drug is a combo of lopinavir and ritonavir antiviral medications

Further Info: ​8 Experimental Coronavirus Treatments to Watch

ESSEX COUNTY SENIORS IN NEED
​FREE HOME MEAL DELIVERY

CALL: 973-744-8103
EMAIL: DDelVecchio@chrill.org
https://chrill.org/

Deborah DelVecchio, Director of Operations with Chrill Care in Verona, is a really lovely woman and wants to make sure everyone is aware of the following:

  • New Jersey is covering the cost for those age 60+ in need during this medical crisis

  • Home Meal Delivery (normally provided at Essex locations) is available now
     
  • Virtual Home Health Care and in person home health aid wellcare visit if needed is available now

  • Those interested will be screened for approval​

REPORT PRICE GOUGING COMPLAINTS

Excessive price increases are illegal during a State of Emergency, and for 30 days after it's completion. Coronavirus State of Emergency began on 3/9/20

Report Online

CALL: 973- 504-6240
  • Voicemail:
    • Leave your name
    • contact information
    • nature of the complaint
    • Business name
    • Business location
    • Note the price of a good or service being sold, as well as the price prior to the declared State of Emergency, if known

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COVID-19 Update for Consumers and Businesses: Combatting Price Gouging and Consumer Fraud

"We are asking residents to immediately report anyone seeking to illegally profit from public concern in response to this public health emergency,” said Paul R. Rodríguez, Acting Director of the Division of Consumer Affairs. "The Division is actively investigating reports of price gouging, and stands ready to protect consumers by enforcing the law.”
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