On April 15, 2020, the City Council of Hoboken held a bi-weekly meeting to address a variety of issues, many of which were centered around the current global Coronavirus pandemic.
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The global COVID-19 pandemic has forced virtually all school functions to either come to a grinding halt or embrace a virtual environment.
Last week, Stevens released a statement explaining that the university will be making rooms in Jonas Hall available to health care professionals from Hoboken University Medical Center (HUMC) and the Hoboken Fire Department (HFD).
The coronavirus has forced business closures, school closures, and self isolation, thus having a detrimental effect on the U.S. economy. Restaurants have struggled to make profits and pay rents and the stock market has experienced a nosedive.
Coronavirus has not stopped the mermaids from swimming to campus. On April 5th, the founding class, “The Menente Line” of Lambda Tau Omega was announced on Instagram.
In order to ensure that students are maintaining their health during quarantine, Counseling and Psychological Services (CAPS) has begun helping students through the use of teletherapy.
Since social distancing policies were issued on March 17 in Hoboken due to COVID-19, research on campus has had a lot of difficulty continuing in a productive manner.
Luke Bowyer, a freshman at Stevens, started showing symptoms of COVID-19 on March 29. He was willing to share his personal story about the effects it has had on his life.
As a result of the pandemic, student organizations have had to transition to online meetings. The transition has affected different clubs in different ways, based on their ability to acclimate to this transition.
Ever since the COVID-19 pandemic started, it seems like the whole world has shut down. For the medical staff of Hoboken and Jersey City, lives have instead become much busier.