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FRIday, JULY 31

HACKENSACK: CUSTOMER REFUSING TO WEAR FACE COVER ASSAULTED ANOTHER CUSTOMER, BREAKING HER LEG

July 31
🔺 NO ONE COMES TO CUSTOMER'S ASSISTANCE

from Hackensack Police Detective Capt. Darrin DeWitt
▪️  Margot Kagan, 54, of Teaneck was using Hackensack Staples' copy machine Wednesday afternoon
▪️  Woman wearing a face cover pulled below her mouth approached Kagan
▪️  Kagan asked the woman to pull up her face cover
▪️  Kagan had recently had surgery, and is using a cane during recovery
▪️  The Woman became angry at Kagan, approached her and started yelling
▪️  Kagan "pointed the cane within inches of the woman’s chest"
▪️  Woman threw Kagan to the floor
▪️  Kagan broke her leg during fall
▪️  Ambulance took Kagan to Hackensack University Medical Center
▪️  For the 47 seconds shown in Video, no one intervenes or comes to the Customer's assistance.
▪️  Suspect: Black, 5' 5" to 5' 8", about 160
▪️   Hackensack Police: 201-646-7777 / www.bergencrimestoppers.org
 
​Video: Jerry DeMarco

NJ RATE OF TRANSMISSION (RT) HAS RISEN TO 1.35

July 29, 2020

Rate of Transmission is the Rate a Contagious Infection spreads from one person to another person.

•  In April, the RT was 1.02 and decreased through June
  
• Towards the end of June, the RT began to increase, and continued to move upwards through July
  
• On July 27 the RT was 1.09
  
• On July 29 the RT was 1.14
  

This number can only be recorded by assessment of Positive Tests, and cannot take into consideration anyone Infected who was not Tested.

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wednesday, JULY 29

LONG BEACH ISLAND: 35 LIFEGUARDS TEST POSITIVE / HALF ARE ASYMPTOMATIC

​July 29

from the Long Beach Island Health Department
▪️ 35 lifeguards have been diagnosed

▪️ 17 from Surf City, 18 from Harvey Cedars

▪️ Half of those tested have no symptoms

▪️ Cases linked to July 12 and July 14 gatherings

"The Youth and Young Adults should recognize they are not immune to this virus. It is imperative to understand how individuals conduct themselves both inside and especially outside of work, can have significant implications on their own risk to acquire Covid-19 and transmit it to their family, friends and potentially co-workers.
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Based on our investigation so far, the workplace was not the source of transmission and practices likely prevented additional cases."

As A Reminder: Covid-19 Spreads through Asymptomatic Persons. Studies since January have shown this to be the case, repeatedly.

Most of the earliest reports came out of China - another early report came out of Germany on March 5, 2020:
Transmission of 2019-nCoV Infection from an Asymptomatic Contact in Germany

RUTGERS FOOTBALL: 15 PLAYERS TEST POSITIVE

July 29

from the New Jersey Department of Health Commissioner Judith Persichilli:

• 15 players have been diagnosed
• Cases linked to a campus party several players attended
• Entire team quarantined for 2 weeks
• Rutgers is one of two Big Ten teams quarantined; Michigan State had 16 players and 4 staff test positive

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TUESDAY, JULY 28

SELF-QUARANTINE STATES​

🔷 AS OF TUE JULY 28

• ▪️ Alabama
  ▪️ Alaska
  ▪️ Arkansas
  ▪️ Arizona
  ▪️ California
  ▪️ Delaware
  ▪️ Florida
  ▪️ Georgia
  ▪️ Idaho
  ▪️ Illinois
  ▪️ Indiana
  ▪️ Iowa
  ▪️ Kansas
  ▪️ Kentucky
  ▪️ Louisiana
  ▪️ Maryland
  ▪️ Minnesota
  ▪️ Mississippi
  ▪️ Missouri
  ▪️ Montana
  ▪️ Nebraska
  ▪️ Nevada
  ▪️ New Mexico
  ▪️ North Carolina
  ▪️ North Dakota
  ▪️ Ohio
  ▪️ Oklahoma
  ▪️ Puerto Rico
  ▪️ South Carolina
  ▪️ Tennessee
  ▪️ Texas
  ▪️ Utah
  ▪️ Virginia
  ▪️ Washington
  ▪️ Washington, DC
  ▪️ Wisconsin

🔺 ANYONE WHO HAS VISITED THOSE STATES IN PAST 14 DAYS IS REQUIRED TO SELF-QUARANTINE
"Travelers and those residents who are returning from impacted states should self-quarantine at their home, hotel, or other temporary lodging. Individuals should leave the place of self-quarantine only to seek medical care/treatment or to obtain food and other essential items."
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🔺 EXEMPTIONS:
▪️ Business Travel
▪️ Critical Infrastructure Workers
▪️ Seasonal Migrant Farm Workers
▪️ Covid19 Testing

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SATURday, JULY 25

NJ RATE OF TRANSMISSION (RT) IS 1.09

July 25, 2020

Rate of Transmission is the Rate a Contagious Infection spreads from one person to another person.

• In April, the RT was 1.02 and decreased through June
  
  
• In June, the RT began to increase, moved upwards and currently stands at 1.09

This number can only be recorded by assessment of Positive Tests, and cannot take into consideration anyone Infected who was not Tested.

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TUESday, JULY 21

SELF-QUARANTINE STATES​

🔷 AS OF TUE JULY 21
▪️  Alabama
▪️  Alaska
▪️  Arkansas
▪️  Arizona
▪️  California
▪️  Delaware
▪️  Florida
▪️  Georgia
▪️  Idaho
▪️  Indiana
▪️  Iowa
▪️  Kansas
▪️  Louisiana
▪️  Maryland
▪️  Mississippi
▪️  Missouri
▪️  Montana
▪️  Nebraska
▪️  Nevada
▪️  New Mexico
▪️  North Carolina
▪️  North Dakota
▪️  Ohio
▪️  Oklahoma
▪️  South Carolina
▪️  Tennessee
▪️  Texas
▪️  Utah
▪️  Virginia
▪️  Washington
▪️  Wisconsin

🔺 ANYONE WHO HAS VISITED THOSE STATES IN PAST 14 DAYS IS REQUIRED TO SELF-QUARANTINE
"Travelers and those residents who are returning from impacted states should self-quarantine at their home, hotel, or other temporary lodging. Individuals should leave the place of self-quarantine only to seek medical care/treatment or to obtain food and other essential items."
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🔺 EXEMPTIONS:
▪️ Business Travel
▪️ Critical Infrastructure Workers
▪️ Seasonal Migrant Farm Workers
▪️ Covid19 Testing

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DAY 45

NJ LAW ENFORCEMENT CRACKDOWN:
​ZERO TOLERANCE

Friday, Apr. 17 

THURSDAY: 

🔷 MORRISTOWN POLICE

• Last night at 10pm, Police responded to reports of a fight outside an apartment building. When they arrived, they found 12 people gathered and learned that many had already dispersed.  A door to an apartment was open and three Males, who do not reside in the apartment, were inside.
  Antoni Moore, 31, of Morristown
  Gary Smith, 19, of Morristown
  Onir Ritzie, 26, of Morristown, were all charged with:
  • violating the emergency orders
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🔷 NEWARK POLICE
The Department's Covid-19 Task Force:

• Thursday: Issued 90 violations summonses, closed 7 businesses
  
  

🔷 PATERSON POLICE

• On Thursday, Police closed down the BWT Shine 4 Less Car Wash, where officers found employees washing cars by hand.
  Owner Jeffrey Hernandez, 32, of Paterson, was charged with:
  • violating the emergency orders
     
• Police responded repeatedly to the corner of Jackson Avenue and Bond Street where they charged individuals, sometimes repeatedly, who already had been warned about gathering.
  Larhonda Burgess, 57, of Paterson - was charged 3 times
  Kevin Lewis, 65, of Paterson
  Pearl Moore, 54, of Paterson - was charged 2 times
  James Williams, 55, of Paterson
  Syrenner Frazier, 51, of Paterson
  Carolyn Dixon, 58, of Paterson
  Herman Kuc, 53, of Paterson, were all charged with:
  • violating the emergency orders 

🔷 SOUTH BRUNSWICK POLICE

• Just after midnight on Tuesday, Police investigated a vehicle stopped in a lane of travel on Georges Road. Inside the car, police found a Female driver sleeping, with two young children also in the vehicle.
  Megan Murray, 28, of Monroe Township, was charged with:
  • two counts of endangering the welfare of a child (second-degree)
  • DWI
  • numerous motor vehicle violations
  • violating the emergency orders

🔷 UPPER TOWNSHIP POLICE

• Early this morning, Police charged a Male driver:
  Alexander C. Bross, 30, of Ocean View, was charged with:
  • DWI
  • violating the emergency orders

🔷 NEW JERSEY STATE POLICE

• The NJSP today stopped several gathering of protesters who were outside of the State House, and at other locations in Trenton, to demonstrate against the Governor’s Executive Orders. The protesters had never been granted a permit.
  Organizer Kim Pagan of Toms River was charged with:
  • violating the emergency orders

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THURsDAY, aPr.16
DAY 44

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NEW JERSEY INFORMATION UPDATE

Thur. Apr. 16 - 1pm
Day 44
from Governor Phil Murphy
"I am heartbroken by the tragic news that several individuals have lost their lives in a coronavirus outbreak at the Andover Subacute and Rehabilitation Centers. I am outraged that the bodies of the dead were allowed to pile up in a makeshift morgue at the facility. New Jerseyans living in our long-term care facilities deserve to be cared for with respect, compassion, and dignity. We can and must do better. I have asked the Office of the Attorney General to look into this matter, as well as to do a review of all long-term care facilities that have experienced a disproportionate number of deaths during the Covid-19 outbreak and to take any appropriate action. State Health Commissioner Persichilli has also directed the Department of Health’s Communicable Disease Service, in coordination with the local health department, to enforce critical safety measures and protocols. A team has been deployed to assist the center, its staff, and its residents."
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🔺 4,391 New Patients / 🔺 75,317 NJ Total Patients
🙏🏻 362 Newly Deceased / 🙏🏻 3,518 NJ Total Deceased
🔺 COVID NJ HOSPITALIZATIONS
8,224 in all NJ hospitals

• Critical Care: 2,014
  • Using Ventilators: 1,645 (82%)
• Discharged Yesterday to Recover at FEMA Hospitals, USNS Comfort, Hotels, and Home: 802
  
  

🔷 45% POSITIVITY RATE

• 138,609 tests performed on symptomatic people since Mar. 4
• 62,096 were positive

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🙏🏻 362 Newly Deceased
Including

• Volunteer Firefighter, 48-year member of Singac Fire Company #3, 26 years as Company's President, 14 years Little Falls Fire Department President: Michael Burke, 64, of Little Falls
  
  
• 9 years EMT, Hyperbaric Safety Officer in the Wound Care Center at Saint Barnabas Medical Center and Trinitas Regional Medical Center, Basketball Coach, and owner Soulful Journey: Solomon Donald, 41
  
  
• Auschwitz and Bergen Belsen Concentration Camp Holocaust Survivor, X-Ray Technician, Author: "Margit- A Teenager’s Journey through the Holocaust and Beyond:" Margit Buchhalter Feldman, 90

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🙏🏻 3,518 NJ Total Deceased

• 57% Male / 43% Female
  
  

🔷 RACE PERCENTAGES OF TOTAL DECEASED

• 51% - White
• 23% - African American
• 16%- Hispanic
• 6% - Asian
• 4% - Other

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🔷 LONG TERM FACILITIES UPDATE

• 379 Long Term facilities are reporting at least 1 positive patient out of 375 NJ facilities and 200 assisted living
• 8,209 Residents are positive out of 60,000 residents
• 54 of newly deceased

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🔷 FEMA FIELD HOSPITAL UPDATES / TIER 4: CONTINUED CARE
Dr. Shereef Elnaha, President and CEO at University Hospital, Newark
"We’ve reached over 100 admissions to the Meadowlands Field Hospital, where recovering Covid19 patients can go to get better. It means people are getting better. We will get through this."
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🔷 FEMA FREE TESTING SITES WILL CONTINUE THROUGH END OF MAY
opens 8am until 500 tests are completed
Thursday, Apr. 16

• Bergen Community College ONLY

Friday, Apr. 17

• Bergen Community College ONLY

Saturday, Apr. 18

• PNC Arts Center for First Responders / Health Care workers ONLY
  
  

🔷 PPE

• New York is sending 100 ventilators to New Jersey
  
  

🔷 PPE DONATE HERE: Covid19.nj.gov/forms/ppedonations

🔺 NJ HEALTHCARE VOLUNTEERS NEEDED

• Retired Doctors, Nurses, EMTS
• Medical and Nursing Students
• Former members of Medical Corps
• EMTs whose certification expired within past 5 years
• EMTs from out of state

Sign up here: Covid19.NJ.gov/volunteer

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🔷 NEW JERSEY SCHOOLS CONTINUE CLOSED THROUGH AT LEAST MAY 15
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🔷 MULTI-STATE REOPENING STUDY COMMITTEE PANEL
Comprised of 1 of each, from each state.
New Jersey's panel members:

• Public Health Official: Dr. Rich Besser
  President and CEO of Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, formerly with ABC News, former Acting Director of CDC, Pediatrician
  
  
• Economic Health Official: Jeh Charles Johnson
  Former Secretary of the US Department of Homeland Security, former General Counsel of the Department of Defense, 2018 recipient of the Ronald Reagan Peace Through Strength Award
  
  
• Chief of Staff of each Governor: George Helmy

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🔷 CORPORATE DONORS

• Wakefern Foods / ShopRite donating $1 million to support food banks in North and Central Jersey and eight other states

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NJ LAW ENFORCEMENT CRACKDOWN:
​ZERO TOLERANCE

Thursday, Apr. 16 

WEDNESDAY: 

🔷 ATLANTIC CITY POLICE

• Police responded to reports of Male shoplifter acting erratically at CVS. Male stated to Police that he was "on drugs," and EMS were called. Male refused treatment and while being placed under arrest he reportedly coughed on the officers. 
  Jason Reiner, 44, of Atlantic City, was charged with: 
  
  • ​aggravated assault on a law enforcement officer (3rd degree)
    
  • shoplifting (disorderly offense)
    
  • resisting arrest (disorderly offense)
    
  • obstruction (disorderly offense)
    
  • violating the emergency orders

🔷 EDISON POLICE

• Edison Police and the Middlesex County Prosecutor’s Office continue to investigate a group of individuals who surrounded an Asian Female on Saturday, Apr. 4. A Juvenile Female involved with the incident was arrested yesterday for her actions during this incident including yelling racial slurs at the Asian Female related to the origins of the coronavirus and allegedly punching the woman in the back of the head.
  Juvenile Female was charged with:
  
  • bias intimidation (3rd degree)
    
  • riot (4th degree)
    
  • simple assault (disorderly offense)
    
  • harassment (disorderly offense)
    
  • disorderly conduct (disorderly offense)
    
  • violating the emergency orders

🔷 JERSEY CITY POLICE

• At about 6am this morning, Police were called to a Domestic Violence incident after a Male was refused entry to a relative’s home, where he does not live and does not have any belongings. Reportedly when the female relative would not let him inside her home, the Male kicked in a window of the house. Police found the Male in front of the house and as he was being arrested, the Male reportedly coughed on the officers, stated he was positive, and that he wanted to infect them. The Male allegedly said, “If I’m going to die, you’re going to die.”
  Male, 35, of Jersey City, was charged with:
  
  • two counts of second-degree terroristic threats during an emergency (2nd degree)
    
  • two counts of aggravated assault on a police officer (4th degree)
    
  • two counts of throwing bodily fluid at an officer (4th degree)
    
  • criminal mischief (disorderly offense)
    
  • harassment (petty disorderly offense) 
    
    

🔷 MOUNT EPHRAIM POLICE

• Yesterday morning at 6:05am, Police responded to a report of a rollover accident on West King’s Highway. Police determined that the driver struck a parked car, rolled, and ended up in the middle of the road. The Male driver stated to Police he fell asleep while driving. Police determined the Male was not driving for essential reasons and he was taken to Cooper University Hospital for treatment.
  Kevin Beneventa, 35, of Clementon, was charged with:
  
  • driving without a license
    
  • failure to keep right
    
  • failure to wear a seatbelt
    
  • violating the emergency orders

 
🔷 MOUNT OLIVE POLICE

• The Male - who defied a restraining order on Monday and was charged after he took a car service back to the address, and entered her home - reportedly returned to the victim’s residence again twice yesterday: in the afternoon and last night.
  Male, 44, of Budd Lake, was charged with two more counts of what he was already charged with on Monday: 
  
  • violating a restraining order (4th degree)
    
  • trespassing (4th degree),
    
  • violation of the emergency orders
    

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🔷 NEWARK POLICE

• Wednesday: Issued 72 violations summonses, closed 1 business
  
  

🔷 PENNSAUKEN POLICE

• Police responded at 11:48am yesterday to an alarm at the closed Forman Mills clothing store. Once there, they found a hammer on the ground next to a broken side window. Upon investigating, they located a Male inside the store as well as a coat on the floor which concealed a black airsoft gun.
  Charles Coward, 49, of Camden, was charged with: 
  
  • burglary (3rd degree)
    
  • possession of an imitation firearm for an unlawful purpose (4th degree)
    
  • criminal mischief (disorderly offense)
    
  • trespassing (disorderly offense)
    
  • possession of burglary tools (petty disorderly offense)
    
  • violating the emergency orders
    
    

🔷 POINT PLEASANT POLICE

• On Tuesday, Police responded to reports of an emotionally disturbed woman at the Point Pleasant Inn. The Female was placed under arrest after she reportedly punched officers and threatened to infect them with the virus. 
  Kayla Kraus, 22, of Point Pleasant, was charged with:
  
  • two counts of terroristic threats (3rd degree)
    
  • aggravated assault on an officer (4th degree)
    
    

🔷 POINT PLEASANT BEACH POLICE and WOODBRIDGE POLICE

• Point Pleasant Beach Police, Woodbridge Police, the New Jersey State Police  and the Middlesex County Prosecutor’s Office investigated the theft of up to 1600 N95 respirator masks which were being stored in the Prudential Financial facility in Iselin before being donated to a local hospital. Police today arrested an on-site electrical contractor who had access to the Prudential storage areas. Police believe the contractor allegedly stole seven to eight cases, filled with 200 each of N95 masks, between March 27 and April 1. 
  ​Kevin R. Brady, 49, of Point Pleasant Beach, was charged with:
  
  • theft by unlawful taking (3rd degree)
    
  • conspiracy to commit theft  (3rd degree)

🔷 UNION CITY POLICE

• Police charged the owners of New Way Supermarket after having warned them multiple times on prior days to comply with Retail face covering orders, including the need for both their employees and customers to cover their faces.
  Owner Ali Siyam, 59
  Employee Abdel Siyam, 21, were both charged yesterday with:
  
  • violating the emergency orders

🔷 WEST NEW YORK POLICE

• Police charged two Males who had been previously warned about gathering in a bus stop shelter with no legitimate purpose.
  Stalin Paulino, 39, of West New York
  Mark Rombowski, 65, of West New York, were both charged with:
  
  • violating the emergency orders

🔷 WINSLOW TOWNSHIP POLICE

• Police charged the owner of Corrado’s Pizza in Sicklerville after their employees refused to comply with wearing facial covers or gloves. The Owner stated that "it was too hot near the ovens for his employees to wear masks and customers could not understand them on the phone with their mouths covered."
  Owner Jeffrey Brady, 62, of Cherry Hill, was charged with:
  
  • violating the emergency orders

ANDOVER LONG TERM FACILITIES UPDATE

IMAGE: Eduardo Munoz Alvarez / Getty Images

Thursday, Apr. 16

Andover Subacute And Rehab is comprised of 2 units, directly across the street from each other in Lafayette Township. Together they are the largest long term facility in New Jersey.  The owner, Alliance HC Holdings out of Lakewood, is officiated by Chaim Scheinbaum and Louis Schwartz.

According to Andover Township Police Department Chief Eric C. Danielson, this week his team located 17 bodies piled inside the Facility's small morgue intended to hold no more than 4 people.

The police uploaded a letter from the Andover Facility's owner which states:
"The backup and after hours holiday weekend issues, plus more than average deaths, contributed to the presence of more deceased that normal in the facility holding room."

The Andover Facility was already investigated this year when the State Health Department determined by camera that on Jan. 21, a resident was able to leave the Facility at 3:30am through a loading door and climb over a 7-foot fence. The resident was found by Housekeeping staff at 4:45am, sitting on frozen ground, in a short-sleeve shirt and pants, without a coat, socks, or shoes. The outside temperature was -4 degrees.
Police later identified the resident as a 75-year-old woman.  
​

• Further reporting from Jennifer Jean Miller:
  State faults Andover Subacute over Case of Resident Found outside in Cold

______________________________
from NJ Department of Health Commissioner Judith Persichilli
🔷 Covid19 Andover Facility Report Totals as of Wednesday, April 15:

• 103 Residents tested Covid19 positive
  • 4 of those Residents are Hospitalized
  • 19 Residents have died from Covid19

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🔷 Non-Covid19 Report Totals as of Wednesday, April 15:

• 133 Residents have flu symptoms
• 52 Staff have flu symptoms
• 16 Resident are deceased, and their deaths are not Covid19 related

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🔷 INFORMATION BY FACILITY:
Andover Subacute And Rehab 1
1 O'Brien Lane, Andover
Administrator: Ms. Sonia Velmonte

• 120 beds filled out of 159 beds
  

Information included in above totals:

• RESIDENTS:
  
  • 19 Covid19 Positive
    
    • 2 Covid19 Hospitalized
      
  • 34 have flu symptoms
    
  • 5 Covid19 deaths out of 7 total deaths
    
• STAFF:
  
  • 4 have flu symptoms

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Andover Subacute And Rehab 2
99 Mulford Road Andover
Administrator: Ms. Cynthia Bradford

• 419 beds filled out of 514 beds
  

Information included in above totals:

• RESIDENTS:
  • 84 Covid19 Positive
    • 2 Covid19 Hospitalized
  • 99 have flu symptoms
  • 14 Covid19 deaths out of 28 total deaths
    
• STAFF:
  
  • 48 have flu symptoms

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Information from Commissioner Persichilli:

• On Saturday, the Department of Health was notified that the Andover facilities were in need of body bags for deceased residents, and that 28 bodies were being stored in the facility.
  
  • The department immediately notified the Andover Department of Health and the Andover Health officers visited the facility at 2am, Sunday morning.
    
    
• The Andover Health officers surveyed the property and reported back that there was appropriate staffing and sufficient PPE. The officials also reported to the State that they observed 5 bodies on site, and Andover Facility Staff reported to them that 3 bodies had been released earlier that day.
  
  
• The State immediately required the Andover Facility Staff to report daily to the Andover Health Department. The Facility Staff were given instruction to place any deceased persons at the local hospital in Newton. On Sunday, the State also sent additional PPE to the Andover Facilities, along with the names of persons available for increased staffing.
  
  
• On Tuesday, the State Department of Health received information that more bodies were still being stored at the Andover Facility. At 3pm that day, the Andover Health Department again surveyed the facility. They reported to the State that the Andover Facility was short on staffing, and that the Andover Facility owner was personally called and notified of all concerns, and additionally that the Andover Health Department would be monitoring the Andover Facility on a daily basis.
  
  
• This morning, the Andover Facility Owner reported to the State Commissioner that the staffing is "solid with 12 Nurses, and 39 CNA's." Their normal staffing is 11 Nurses, and 40 CNAs. Additional administrative personnel are now on site, and the Andover Facility Owner has provided for additional incentive wages to be paid to CNAs.

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from Governor Phil Murphy
"I am heartbroken by the tragic news that several individuals have lost their lives in a coronavirus outbreak at the Andover Subacute and Rehabilitation Centers. I am outraged that the bodies of the dead were allowed to pile up in a makeshift morgue at the facility. New Jerseyans living in our long-term care facilities deserve to be cared for with respect, compassion, and dignity. We can and must do better.
I have asked the Office of the Attorney General to look in to this matter, as well as to do a review of all long-term care facilities that have experienced a disproportionate number of deaths during the Covid-19 outbreak and to take any appropriate action. State Health Commissioner Persichilli has also directed the Department of Health’s Communicable Disease Service, in coordination with the local health department, to enforce critical safety measures and protocols. A team has been deployed to assist the center, its staff, and its residents."

IMAGE: NJ Department of Health

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WEDNesDAY, aPr.15
DAY 43

NEW JERSEY INFORMATION UPDATE

Wed, Apr. 15 - 1pm
Day 43

🔷 Reminder: 3 Months Extension: Tax Returns are Due July 15 

from Governor Phil Murphy
"I've seen the great homages to our health care workers.
The good news is: Everyone had a mask on.
The bad news is: They were gathering and they weren't even six feet apart."
"We’re continuing to do everything we can to prepare for the absolute worst.
We’ve:

• Increased hospital capacity statewide by 60%
• Set up three field medical stations with U.S. Army Corps of Engineers
• Had beds set aside for New Jerseyans on the USNS Comfort"

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🔺 2,625 New Patients / 🔺 71,030 NJ Total Patients
🙏🏻 351 Newly Deceased / 🙏🏻 3,156 NJ Total Deceased

🔺 COVID NJ HOSPITALIZATIONS
8,270 in all NJ hospitals

• Critical Care: 1,980
• Using Ventilators: 1,705 (86%)
• Discharged Yesterday to Recover at FEMA Hospitals, USNS Comfort, Hotels, and Home: 709
  
  

🔷 45% POSITIVITY RATE

• 131,967 tests performed on symptomatic people since Mar. 4
• 58,976 were positive

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🙏🏻 351 Newly Deceased
Including

• 1960s American Soul, Gospel, R&B lead singer of “Epitome of Sound:” Eugene Thomas of Ridgewood, 78​
  
  
• Criminal Intelligence Analyst Lieutenant Danny Francis, 51
  • 2006 Valor Award recipient from 200 Club of Essex County for valor in the line of duty for risking his own life
  • Served in East Orange Police Department, Newark Police Division and Essex County Prosecutor's Office
    
    
• 20-years working in Health Care at Rutgers University, Native of the Dominican Republic, Mother of Timberwolves Karl-Anthony Towns: Jacqueline Cruz-Towns, 59

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🔷 RACE PERCENTAGES OF TOTAL DECEASED

• 52% - White
• 22% - African American
• 16%- Hispanic
• 6% - Asian
• 4% - Other
  
  

🔷 UNDERLYING CONDITIONS OF TOTAL DECEASED

• ▪️1,442 persons out of 3,156 ( 46%)

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🔷 LONG TERM FACILITIES UPDATE

• 358 Long Term facilities are reporting at least 1 positive patient out of 375 NJ facilities and 200 assisted living
• 6,815 Residents are positive out of 60,000 residents
• 55 of newly deceased

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🔷 NJ VETERANS HOMES UPDATE
Administered by the New Jersey Department of Military and Veterans Affairs
3 Veterans Homes, with a total of 800 residents

• 160 positive residents
  
  

🔷 PARAMUS VETERANS MEMORIAL HOME

• 29 Covid-19 resident deaths
  
  

🔷 MENLO PARK VETERANS MEMORIAL HOME

• 16 Covid-19 resident deaths
  
  

🔷 VINELAND VETERANS MEMORIAL HOME

• 0 Covid-19 resident deaths

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🔷 NJ PSYCHIATRIC HOSPITALS UPDATE
4 State Hospitals
Patients:

• 97 positives, out of total of 1400 patients
• 6 patients deceased

Staff:

• 237 positives, out of total of 4800 staff
• 2 staff deceased

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🔷 FEMA FIELD HOSPITAL UPDATES / TIER 4: CONTINUED CARE

• Meadowlands Convention Center, Secaucus / capacity 250
  • Overall Patients Served: 104
  • Patients there today: 72
• Edison Convention Center / capacity 500
  • Overall Patients Served: 29
  • Patients there today: 24
• Atlantic City Convention Center / capacity 250
  • Opening next week

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🔷 FEMA FREE TESTING SITES WILL CONTINUE THROUGH END OF MAY
opens 8am until 500 tests are completed
Wednesday, Apr. 15

• PNC Arts Center ONLY

Thursday, Apr. 16

• Bergen Community College ONLY

Friday, Apr. 17

• Bergen Community College ONLY

Saturday, Apr. 18

• PNC Arts Center for First Responders / Health Care workers ONLY
  
  

🔷 PPE DONATE HERE:
Covid19.nj.gov/forms/ppedonations

🔺 NJ HEALTHCARE VOLUNTEERS NEEDED

• Retired Doctors, Nurses, EMTS
• Medical and Nursing Students
• Former members of Medical Corps
• EMTs whose certification expired within past 5 years
• EMTs from out of state

Sign up here: Covid19.NJ.gov/volunteer
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🔷 MORTUARY AFFAIRS
Due to the high amount of deaths:

• Crematoriums hours increased
• Cemetery hours will be increased for burials
• Refrigerator mortuary trailers are in place
• Death Certificates are recorded electronically and most are not finalized yet

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🔷 Gov. Murphy Conversations Last Night / Today

• Spoke with "renowned epidemiologist Dr. Eric Ding who led the team that developed the first mobile app for contact tracing. Eric’s guidance will help us utilize technology to Flatten The Curve and responsibly reopen New Jersey, driven by public health and science."
  
  
• Spoke with Brian Strom, chancellor for Rutgers Biomedical and Health Sciences as they "roll out their new Saliva Testing System. It is incredibly gratifying and a source of great pride for all of us to see New Jersey's own flagship university stepping up to help fill the testing gap."
  
  
• Spoke with New York City Mayor DeBlasio and updating each other

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💛 #NJThanksYou

• Teaneck Schools Science Director Rolando Monserrat has been "using his personal 3D printer, and borrowing three others from the Teaneck schools, to produce face-shields alongside one of his students, Elias Sanchez. They just donated their first 340 face shields"
  
  
• Teaneck Schools have also donated "the goggles normally set-aside for use in their science labs, and gloves from their nurses’ offices, to members of the township’s ambulances. This is the essence of a community coming together."

NJ LAW ENFORCEMENT CRACKDOWN:
​ZERO TOLERANCE

Wednesday, Apr. 15 

MONDAY / TUESDAY: 

🔷 ATLANTIC CITY POLICE

• On Monday, two males went to a home and asked to see one of the residents. After they were invited inside, one male grabbed money from the kitchen counter, and when a female resident tried to stop him, he allegedly pointed a gun at her head. The male then ran out of the house as the female's boyfriend arrived. The male was already wanted on a warrant, and police were able to make an arrest:
  Hiram Woods, 22, of Atlantic City, was charged with:
  • first-degree robbery
  • second-degree conspiracy to commit robbery,
  • second-degree weapons offenses
  • obstruction (disorderly offense)
  • violation of the emergency orders 

 
🔷 CAMDEN POLICE

• On Monday, a male was arrested in a Domestic Violence incident. While he was sitting in the rear of the police vehicle, officers were attempting to speak to him through the an open window. Reportedly, the male spit on two officers and the vehicle while stating he was positive and that "the officers were going to get it." The male was transported to Cooper University Hospital for testing and while there, he allegedly spat on another police officer. 
  Male, 31, of Camden, was charged with:
  • two counts of terroristic threats during an emergency (2nd degree)
  • two counts of throwing bodily fluid at an officer (4th degree)
  • criminal mischief (4th degree)
  • disorderly conduct
  • two violations of the emergency orders

🔷 ELIZABETH POLICE

• Yesterday, police responded to reports of a disorderly group gathering on Bond Street, and found individuals together who had already been warned about their conduct.
  Alshaquan Griffin, 23, of Elizabeth
  Jose Haddock, 18, of Elizabeth
  Male, 17, of Elizabeth were all charged with:
  • violating the emergency orders

🔷 HAMBURG POLICE

• On Monday, officers responded to reports of an intoxicated male. When questioned by police, the male allegedly became belligerent and spat and coughed on officers.
  Scott P. Thompson, 45, of Stockholm, was charged with:
  • throwing bodily fluid at an officer (4th degree)
  • aggravated assault on an officer (4th degree)
  • violation of the emergency orders

🔷 HARRISON TOWNSHIP POLICE

• On Monday, Police arrested a Male found to be allegedly breaking into a vehicle.
  Louis Capelli Jr., 33, of Wenonah, was charged with:
  • burglary (3rd degree)
  • theft (disorderly offense)
  • violation of the emergency orders

🔷 HILLSIDE POLICE

• At about 4am Monday morning, police investigated a report of suspicious persons near a local street intersection. When police arrived, three individuals ran away and one Male was found hiding in bushes. The Male had been previously warned about being out in violation of the emergency orders
  Arnell Green, 19, of Newark, was charged with:
  • violating the emergency orders

🔷 HOBOKEN POLICE

• ​Early yesterday morning, Police responded to a report of a burglary in progress at Daniel’s Liquor, where a Male had shattered a glass window to gain entry. Police located the Male nearby with liquor bottles and cigarette cartons sticking out of his backpack and arrested him. While being processed, the Male reportedly purposely coughed at officers, said he was positive and then kept biting and ripping off face masks and spit shields placed on his face.
  Darrell Rude, 33, of Blossvale, NY was charged with:
  • robbery (2nd degree)
  • burglary, (2nd degree)
  • shoplifting (4th degree)
  • criminal mischief (4th degree)
  • throwing bodily fluids at an officer (4th degree)
  • refusal to provide a biological sample (4th degree)
  • refusal to be fingerprinted (disorderly offense)
  • violating the emergency orders.

🔷 LAKEWOOD POLICE

• On Sunday, Police responded to the Toys4U toy store, which was doing business illegally, and found about 50 people gathered outside the store, without face covers, and an employee was taking orders at the door. Apparently, the parking lot was completely filled and there were 10 cars in the fire lane in front of the store. There were an additional 10 employees inside of the store, and only three were wearing face covers. 
  Owner Yossi Itzkowitz
  Manager Tzvi Blau, 29, were both charged with:
  • violating the emergency orders
    
    
• Sunday afternoon, Lakewood Police responded to a large gathering of adults and children in the back yard of a house, with children playing in a bouncy castle and a long table set up with a tablecloth, plates, utensils, and chairs. A chef and two waiters were catering the event.
  Mendel Steiner, 27, of Brooklyn, NY
  Dina Endzweig, 26, of Brooklyn, NY
  Johnathan Schick, 31, of Brooklyn, NY
  Hindy Schick, 32, of Brooklyn, NY
  Ephraim Weiss, 31, of Brooklyn, NY
  Chaya Weiss, 29, of Brooklyn, NY, were all charged with:
  • violating the emergency orders
  • child neglect
    
    

🔷 MENDHAM POLICE

• On Sunday, Police responded to an open tennis and fitness club, The Club at Mendham.
  Owner Jeffrey Carter, 36, of Mendham
  Justin Kaplan, 21, of Mendham
  Samuel Zenna, 20, of Mendham
  Widyawati Pertusi, 47, of Mendham
  Deepak Kausal, 44, of Mendham
  Richard Lee, 57, of Long Valley, were all charged with:
  • violating the emergency orders 
    
  • Owner also charged with aiding and abetting violations of the emergency orders (disorderly offense)

🔷 MOUNT OLIVE POLICE

• On Monday, a Male was served with a restraining order and removed from the victim’s property. Reportedly, he soon after took a car service back to the address, entered her home, while saying that he was there to retrieve belongings.
  Male, 44, of Budd Lake, was charged with:
  
  • violating a restraining order (4th degree)
    
  • trespassing (4th degree),
    
  • violation of the emergency orders 
    
    

🔷 NEW BRUNSWICK POLICE

• Male was found by Police inside the Wellness Plaza parking deck.
  James Rodgers Jr., 57, of Trenton, was charged with:
  
  • defiant trespass (petty disorderly offense)
    
  • violating the emergency orders
    
    
• Male who had received multiple warnings about being out in public without an essential purpose was cited.
  Ahmad R. Harrison, 19, of New Brunswick, was charged with:
  • violating the emergency orders

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🔷 NEWARK POLICE

• Monday: Issued 24 violations summonses, closed 1 businesses
  
• Tuesday: Issued 86 violations summonses, closed 5 businesses

🔷 PASSAIC POLICE

• Police found a group walking at 3am, without an essential purpose:
  Guillermo Bonifacio, 18, of Passaic
  Gabriel Lopez, 19, of Passaic
  Jovanny Santos, 19, of Passaic, were all charged with:
  
  • violating the emergency orders

🔷 PATERSON POLICE

• Monday: Issued 36 violations summonses
  
  

🔷 PEMBERTON TOWNSHIP POLICE

• Male stopped for traffic violation, who had been stopped twice before and had been issued warnings for picking up various people in the Pemberton area and driving them around for non-essential trips 
  Frank Castillo, 20, of Browns Mills, was charged with:
  
  • violating the emergency orders
    
    

🔷 PERTH AMBOY POLICE

• Yesterday, Police responded to a group of walkers wearing face covers and 17 vehicles, all participating in a parade through the business district of Perth Amboy. The walkers were not maintaining social distancing and were obstructing essential traffic. Although Police ordered all to disperse, the drivers continued their parade while two Males pedestrians also failed to heed the warning. 
  Davide Camilo-Chiolo, 21, of Perth Amboy,
  Luis Diaz-Dejsus, 21, of Perth Amboy, were both charged with:
  
  • violating the emergency orders
    
  • Drivers were all issued traffic violations

🔷 PLEASANTVILLE POLICE

• On Sunday, a Male entered a Dunkin Donuts without wearing a face cover and was told by employees he had to leave. Police were called after the Male refused to leave. As police approached, the Male started walking toward a nearby Wawa store, stating "he would go there instead." The Male had already been issued police citations on Friday and Saturday for refusing to wear a face cover at two other establishments. The Male again refused to comply with Police orders.
  Robert Bell, 35, of Pleasantville, was charged by complaint-warrant with:
  
  • contempt (4th degree)
    
  • resisting arrest (disorderly offense)
    
  • defiant trespass (disorderly offense)
    
  • two violations of the emergency orders

🔷 POINT PLEASANT BEACH POLICE

• On Saturday, the operators of the Beach Amethyst Motel were found to be in violation after shutting off power to four tenants for late payments.
  Owner John Fernicola, 68, of Brielle
  Owner Amanda Wood, 34, of Point Pleasant Beach were both charged with:
  
  • four violations of the emergency orders 
    

🔷 SEASIDE HEIGHTS POLICE

• Tuesday: Issued 7 violations summonses
  

🔷 SEASIDE PARK POLICE

• On Sunday, two adults from New Brunswick, walking with children and taking pictures at the Brighton Avenue beach entrance, which they knew was closed, were issued citations by Police.
  Jose Gonzalez, 20, of New Brunswick
  Gildaro Flores-Mendez, 30, of New Brunswick, were both charged with:
  
  • defiant trespass (petty disorderly offense)
    
  • violating the emergency orders
    
    
• On Sunday, Police responded to a Male who was sitting on a lifeguard stand on the beach reading a book. The Male admitted knowing the beach was closed.
  Konstanti Apessos Jr., 21, of Manchester Township, was charged with:
  
  • defiant trespass (petty disorderly offense)
    
  • violating the emergency orders
    

🔷 WATERFORD TOWNSHIP POLICE

• On Sunday, a Male violated his restraining order and went to the home of his ex-girlfriend. Reportedly while there, he fought with her new boyfriend, striking him multiple times with a rock and also with a rake. He then allegedly threatened to come back with a gun and "shoot people."
  Male, 39, of Gibbstown, was charged with:
  
  • aggravated assault (3rd degree)
    
  • terroristic threats (3rd degree)
    
  • violation of a restraining order (4th degree)
    
  • violating the emergency orders 

🔷 NEW JERSEY STATE POLICE

• On Monday, the State Police responded to a motor vehicle accident that led to a car fire. The Male driver reportedly called 911 and falsely claimed to be a witness, rather than the driver of the vehicle.
  Eric Brown, 27, of Salem, was charged with:
  
  • hindering apprehension (disorderly offense)
    
  • violating the emergency orders (disorderly offense) 
    
    

• On Monday, a State Trooper in a marked car was traveling on Route 80 West in the Lodi area when he observed a BMW with tinted windows traveling at speeds in excess of 130 mph. The BMW exited Route 80, and the Male driver was seen by troopers standing alongside the car at a Lodi gas station. Once the Male saw the troopers, he apparently jumped back in the BMW, which police were able to then fully identify, and recklessly drove back on Route 80 until troopers lost sight of the vehicle. The Male later turned himself in at the Totowa State Police Station, and told troopers he "possibly had COVID-19 symptoms" before being taken to the Bergen County Jail.
  Christopher Ospina, 20, of Haledon, was charged with:
  
  • eluding (2nd degree)
    
  • obstruction (4th degree)
    
  • creating a hazardous condition during a state of emergency (disorderly offense) 
    
  • violating the emergency orders

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tuesDAY, aPr.14
DAY 42

NEW JERSEY INFORMATION UPDATE

Tues, Apr. 14 - 1pm
Day 42

from Governor Phil Murphy
"We have to stay at home. Absolutely stay at home, unless it is essential for us to get out. And if we do go out we have to keep wearing our face coverings and keep at least six feet apart from each other."

🔺 4,059 New Patients
🔺 68,824 NJ Total Patients

🙏🏻 365 Newly Deceased
🙏🏻 2,805 NJ Total Deceased

🔺 COVID NJ HOSPITALIZATIONS
8,185 in all NJ hospitals

• Critical Care: 2,051
  • Using Ventilators: 1,626 (79%)
• Discharged Yesterday to Recover at FEMA Hospitals, USNS Comfort, Hotels, and Home: 514
  
  

🔷 45% POSITIVITY RATE

• 128,604 tests performed on symptomatic people
• 57,654 were positive

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🙏🏻 365 Newly Deceased
Including

• 30-Year NJ Department of Transportation Supervising Engineer: Eddy Germain, 67 of Irvington
  Gov. Murphy:
  "His last work was on the structural analysis we needed for our federal waiver of the weight limits on our highways for truckers carrying Covid19 relief supplies. We will keep his family in our prayers."
  
  
• 14-Year Bedminster Township Police Patrol Sergeant AlTerek Patterson
  
  
• Educator, Puerto Rican Cultural Manager, Community Activist Iris Anaida Martínez Arroyo 
  
  

🔷 RACE PERCENTAGES OF TOTAL DECEASED

• 52% - White
• 22% - African American
• 16%- Hispanic
• 6% - Asian
• 4% - Other

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🔷 FEMA FREE TESTING SITES WILL CONTINUE THROUGH MAY
opens 8am until 500 tests are completed
Tuesday, Apr. 14

• Bergen Community College ONLY

Wednesday, Apr. 15

• PNC Arts Center ONLY

Thursday, Apr. 16

• Bergen Community College ONLY

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🔷 BILL SIGNING:
All employees forced to care for family members because of Covid19 allowed up to 12 weeks of family leave in a 24-month period without losing their jobs.

🔷 BILL SIGNING:
Extending the tax filing deadline for income and corporate taxes, and for estimated payments, from April 15 to July 15. This bill also extends Fiscal Year 2020 to September 30, 2020.
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💛 #NJThanksYou

• County College of Morris Engineering Lab Coordinator Eric Pedersen is creating face shields on the college’s 3-D printers for Morristown Medical Center
  
  
• Paterson Public School Teacher Zellie Thomas has helped organized a small band of volunteers, North Jersey Mutual Aid, to collect small-dollar donations and turn them in to necessities for seniors & other vulnerable residents.

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FIRST RESPONDER / HEALTH CARE WORKER: THREE FREE DRIVE-THRU TESTING SITES

Tuesday, April 13

NJ State PBA is working with Accurate Diagnostic Labs

• SIGN UP: Symptomatic and By Appointment Only

🔷 SITES:

• American Dream Mall, Secaucus
• Deptford Township High School, Deptford
• Raritan Valley Community College, Branchburg

IMAGE: Michael Mancuso / NJ.com

NJ LONG TERM FACILITIES UPDATE

Tuesday, April 14

from NJ State Health Commissioner Judith Persichilli
"As the situation continues to change rapidly, we are in regular contact with local health officials across the state. We hold daily calls with local health officials who are conducting public health investigations of positive cases and provide appropriate public health guidance."

🔷 LONG TERM FACILITIES

• 342 Long Term facilities are reporting at least 1 positive patient out of 375 NJ facilities and 200 assisted living
• 5,945 Residents are positive out of 60,000 residents
• 100 currently hospitalized patients are awaiting nursing home placement or re-admission. The Department of Health has identified 100 nursing home beds in the northern region and another 100 in the central region for the patients to be sent to after discharge
• 27 of newly deceased, 3 from Paramus Veterans Home
• 389 of 2,805 NJ Total Deceased are from long term

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• At 2am over this past weekend, a NJ Department of Health Officer visited a North Jersey long term facility to investigate reports of inappropriate incidents

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• ESSEX: 33 out of 70 are reporting at least 1 positive

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🔷 PPE DISTRIBUTION FROM CENTRAL TRENTON STOCKPILE
The Department continues to work with long-term care facilities to deliver to them the supplies they need. As of last week, these facilities have received:

• 108,074 N95 masks
• 692,500 surgical masks
• 7,008 face shields
• 4,728 surgical gowns
• 727,145 gloves

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🔷 APR. 12 DIRECTIVE: NO NEW ADMISSIONS OR RE-ADMISSIONS TO ANY FACILITY UNABLE TO COHORT BY CLASSIFICATION AND PREVENT INFECTION
Yesterday, the Department of Health sent guidance that will prohibit admissions or re-admissions of individuals if the facility has COVID-19 residents and the facility does not have the ability to cohort into three groups:

1. Ill or COVID-19 positive;
2. Exposed (not ill, but potentially incubating)
3. Not ill and not exposed

Additionally, each facility is asked to follow CDC guidance for infection prevention and control and maintain adequate staffing.

• 123 Long Term facilities are unable to Cohort and prohibited from admitting any new residents

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🔷 APR. 12: LONG TERM FACILITY STAFFING SUPPORT
The Department of Health is supporting Long Term Facility directors by providing them with:

• Shared list of 150 CNAs registered in the volunteer portal with LTCs in need of staffing
• Shared list of 90 RNs/LP/CNS registered in the volunteer portal
• Additionally, a list of 25 nurses was shared with Veteran Homes in Menlo Park and Paramus

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🔷 APR. 8 DIRECTIVE: LONG TERM FACILITIES TO CLASSIFY EMPLOYEES:
Staff Members Classified As:

• Available to Work
• Home on Quarantine
• Symptomatic, and Isolated
• Positive and Hospitalized

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🔷 APR. 8 DIRECTIVE: LONG TERM FACILITIES TO REPORT PPE INVENTORY DAILY TO DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH
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🔷 APR. 8 DIRECTIVE: COHORTING RESIDENTS BY CLASSIFICATION
Since Apr. 8: All facilities are to classify, and then separate, residents into a different wing or another floor if possible. All facilities accessed to see if they are able to house positive residents in single rooms with private bathrooms.
Residents are Classified As:

• No symptoms, and have not been exposed
  • No symptoms, but have been exposed at a Long Term facility
• Symptomatic, and testing negative
  • Symptomatic, and testing positive
• Positive and transferred to - or back from - a Hospital

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🔷 LONG TERM STAFF CNA SUBSTITUTE ALLOWANCES
To fill in for those staff members who are ill or not at work, the Department of Health has allowed flexibility in nurse staffing standards and allowed the following to work as CNAs:

• Registered Medical Technicians
• Certified Home Health Aides

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🔷 APR. 6: LONG TERM FACILITIES AGAIN REMINDED OF LEGAL NOTIFICATION OBLIGATIONS FOR REPORTING COVID PATIENTS

• In person and in writing notification:
  • Staff and Residents:
• Phone or Email notification to be followed up in writing in 3 days:
  • Family members

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🔷 MAR. 31 LONG TERM FACILITY UNIVERSAL MASKING DIRECTIVES:
On Mar. 31, following a CDC study that suggested asymptomatic spread as well as pre-symptomatic spread in nursing homes, the Department required universal masking in long term facilities.

• This decision was made ahead of CDC guidance on universal masking

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🔷 MAR. 14 ADDITIONAL LONG TERM FACILITY DIRECTIVES:
On March 14, all were required to restrict visitors and also screen staff and medical professional visitors for:

• Respiratory virus symptoms
• Contact with COVID-19 cases
• Travel to impacted countries or regional US areas

All facilities were given guidance on infection prevention and control measures as well as a daily outbreak management checklist
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🔷 MAR. 9 FOLLOW UP ON LONG TERM FACILITY DIRECTIVES:
Starting Mar.9, NJ DOH began series of conference calls with long-term care facility leaders to ensure all facilities in compliance with Mar. 4 directives
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🔷 MAR. 6: LONG TERM FACILITIES REMINDED OF LEGAL NOTIFICATION OBLIGATIONS
On March 6, long term facilities were reminded about their responsibility under the law to have outbreak plans that include clear policies for the notification of residents, staff and family members when infection cases have been identified in their facilities.

• This law came about due to the adenovirus outbreak at the Wanaque Center for Nursing and Rehabilitation, where 36 children and a staff member were infected and 11 died

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🔷 PRE-COVID (MAR. 4) LONG TERM FACILITY DIRECTIVES:
On March 4, 2020, all NJ long term facilities were directed to do the following:

• Screen visitors for respiratory symptoms
• Monitor residents for symptoms of respiratory virus
• Instruct sick employees with respiratory symptoms not to report to work
• Carefully review existing emergency preparedness and outbreak response plans
• Ensure healthcare personnel infection prevention competency-based training and do an assessment to ensure they are skilled in prevention control
• Train staff on using appropriate personal protective equipment
• Conduct a PPE inventory 

IMAGE: Michael Mancuso / NJ.com

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monDAY, aPr.13
DAY 41

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NEW JERSEY INFORMATION UPDATE

Monday, Apr. 13 - 3pm
Day 41

from Governor Phil Murphy
"We’re going through hell and back together right now. Let’s just do this once. Keep practicing social distancing. Keep staying home."

🔺 3,219 New Patients
🔺 64,584 Total NJ Patients

🔺 COVID NJ HOSPITALIZATIONS

• 7,781 in all NJ hospitals
  • Critical Care: 1,886
  • Using Ventilators: 1,611 (86%)
• 7 Hospitals are full and on divert
• Discharged Yesterday to Recover at FEMA Hospitals, USNS Comfort, Hotels, and Home: 556 (14%)
  
  

🔷 46% POSITIVITY RATE

• 118,097 tests performed on symptomatic people
• 54,600 were positive

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🙏🏻 94 Newly Deceased
Including

• Founder Mt. Pilgrim Missionary Baptist Church, Passaic: Reverend Dr. W. Louis McDowell
  
  
• Paterson Police Offier Francesco Scorpo, 34
  
  
• 24-year NJTRANSIT Bus Operator, Amalgamated Transit Union member: Philip Dover

🙏🏻 2,443 Total Deceased

• 58% Males / 42% Females
  
  

🔷 AGE PERCENTAGES OF TOTAL DECEASED
Ages range from 20 to 103

• under 30: <1%
• 30 to 49: 5%
• 50 to 64: 17%
• 65 to 79: 33%
• 80 and older: 46%
  
  

🔷 RACE PERCENTAGES OF TOTAL DECEASED

• 51% - White
• 21% - African American
• 19%- Hispanic
• 6% - Asian
• 3% - Other
  
  

🔷 UNDERLYING CONDITIONS TOTAL DECEASED

• 48%
  
  

🔷 FEMA FREE TESTING SITES WILL CONTINUE THROUGH MAY
opens 8am until 500 tests are completed
Tuesday, Apr. 14

• Bergen Community College ONLY

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🔷 LONG TERM FACILITIES

• 324 Long Term facilities are reporting at least 1 positive patient out of 375 NJ facilities and 200 assisted living
• 5,264 Residents are positive out of 60,000 residents
• 29 of newly deceased

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🔷 NJ VETERANS HOMES UPDATE
Administered by the New Jersey Department of Military and Veterans Affairs

• 3 homes, total of 845 residents
  
  

🔷 PARAMUS VETERANS MEMORIAL HOME

• 17 Staff / 29 Residents = Total 46 positive
  • 8 Hospitalized
• 24 Covid-19 resident deaths out of 34 deceased residents
  • (10 deceased were not Covid-related)
    
    

🔷 MENLO PARK VETERANS MEMORIAL HOME

• 5 Staff / 16 Residents = Total 21 positive
  • 12 Hospitalized
• 14 Covid-19 resident deaths
  
  

🔷 VINELAND VETERANS MEMORIAL HOME

• 2 Hospitalized

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🔺 7 STATE REGIONAL ADVISORY COUNCIL ON REOPENING
NJ, NY, CT, PA, DE, RI have formed a regional advisory council to help guide our re-opening once the emergency has passed. Massachusetts has joined this afternoon as well.

• CT Governor Ned Lamont
• DE Governor John Carney
• MA Governor Charlie Baker
• NJ Governor Phil Murphy
• NY Governor Andrew Cuomo
• PA Governor Tom Wolf
• RI Governor Gina Raimondo
  
  

🔷 REOPENING STUDY COMMITTEE PANEL
Comprised of 1 of each, from each state:

• Public Health Official
• Economic Health Official
• Chief of Staff of each Governor

Governor Murphy:
"We cannot act on our own. We must be smart & tactical in how our region comes out of this, or else we’ll be right back to square one."

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🔺 NO SHUT OFF: PHONE AND INTERNET STAYS ON UNTIL 30 DAYS AFTER EMERGENCY ENDS
Executive Order 126

AS LONG AS EMERGENCY ORDER IS IN EFFECT:

• No Residential Cable / Phone service can be disconnected due to nonpayments
• No downgrading of service
• No late fees to be charged
• No fees for service reconnections
  
  

Governor Phil Murphy
"Today I’m signing an Executive Order to prohibit Internet and phone services from being shut off until 30 days after our current public health emergency has ended. This is no time for anyone to have their connection to the world severed."

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🔺 PPE

• 200 ventilators were delivered from the Strategic National Stockpile yesterday, for a total of 1,550 ventilators so far
• Government of Taiwan sent 100,000 medical masks and 200,000 still coming
  
  

🔷 PPE DONATE HERE: Covid19.nj.gov/forms/ppedonations

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🔷 OUT OF STATE AMBULANCES

• Have responded to 501 calls and made 286 transports
• State requested from FEMA 100 more
  
  

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🔷 LAW ENFORCEMENT COVID INFO

• 645 Officers across NJ tested positive
• 2,310 are home self-quarantining

 
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💛 #NJThanksYou

• Stockton graduate student Gavin Rozzi is using his personal 3D printer to create respirators and face shields for our front line workers. And, he’s also sharing the patterns he created with other residents who have 3D printers, so they can make even more."
  
  
• The South Bergen Jointure Commission has been working with families of individuals with special needs to include the differently-abled in our response efforts. They’ve been delivering 3D printers to their families and producing face shields.

NJ LAW ENFORCEMENT CRACKDOWN:
​ZERO TOLERANCE

Monday, Apr. 13 

SATURDAY / SUNDAY:

🔷 BRIDGETON POLICE

• On Saturday, a Female allegedly resisted arrest after investigators determined she was involved in local hit and run accident
  Dionicia Zapoteco, 36, of Bridgeton, was charged with:
  
  • DWI
    
  • resisting arrest (disorderly offense)
    
  • violating the emergency order

🔷 BROOKLAWN POLICE

• Brooklawn ShopRite Employees reported Female Shoplifter to police and followed female to her car. When one employee tried to recover the items, female argued with him and reportedly spit on his shirt. Female then got in car, drove in reverse, allegedly striking another male employee. Female drove away and that second male had to jump out of the way to avoid being struck again.
  Alycia D. Roman, 37, of Camden, was charged with:
  
  • robbery (2nd degree)
    
  • aggravated assault with a deadly weapon (3rd degree)
    
  • shoplifting (disorderly offense)
    
  • violation of the emergency orders

🔷 DENVILLE POLICE

• Friday night, Male ignored officer signaling for him to stop his car and then reportedly crashed into multiple vehicles and attempted to flee on foot.
  Chris Giddle, 21, of Randolph, was charged with:
  
  • eluding (2nd degree)
    
  • resisting arrest (4th degree)
    
  • violating the emergency order

🔷 EAST BRUNSWICK POLICE

• On Saturday, Male was arrested for allegedly stealing tires from an industrial park.
  Frank Medina, 37, of Spotswood, was charged with:
  
  • violating the emergency orders
    
  • theft by unlawful taking (3rd degree)
    
  • criminal trespass (disorderly offense)

🔷 GLOUCESTER TOWNSHIP POLICE

• On Saturday, Female traveled to home of relative who has a restraining order against her
  Female, 29, of Gloucester Township, was charged with:
  
  • violating a restraining order (4th degree)
    
  • violating the emergency order

🔷 HAMILTON TOWNSHIP POLICE

• Friday night, police responded to gathering and found 15 people inside residence playing loud music, with numerous food trays and bottles of alcohol. Four persons were arrested when they refused to provide identification or comply with directions.
  Homeowner: Lagbeh Tulay, 29, of Trenton
  Homeowner: Tinnoh Blayee, 21, of Trenton
  Jonathan Payne, 25, of Trenton
  Fomba Tulay, 23, of Hamilton were all charged with:
  
  • obstruction (disorderly offense)
    
  • resisting arrest (disorderly offense)
• Homeowners also:
  
  • violating the emergency orders
    
    
• Saturday afternoon: Diamonds Nail Salon Owner was allowing customers in through the rear of the business to receive salon services
  Thong Quoc Tran, 44, of Fairless Hills, PA, was charged with:
  
  • violating the emergency orders

🔷 LONG BEACH TOWNSHIP POLICE

• Female investigated for short term rental of condominium she owns. Rental was for 10 days, she also falsely claimed to have rented it out for 30 days.
  Paulina B Kashirsky, 35, of Jersey City, was charged with:
  
  • violating the emergency orders
    
  • obstruction (disorderly offense)

🔷 NEWARK POLICE

• 85 violations, closed 7 businesses
  
  
• Male reportedly rode bike in front of ambulance, almost causing accident. Rider followed ambulance into the Exxon Gas Station at 481 Central Avenue and started yelling at EMT driver. Rider allegedly approached EMT, spat on him, punched him in face, then drove away. Police were able to identify, locate and arrest him.
  Terrell Coley, 30, of East Orange, charged with:
  
  • throwing bodily fluid at an EMT who was on duty (4th degree)
    
  • aggravated assault on an EMT who was on duty (4th degree)
    
  • obstruction (disorderly offense)

🔷 PATERSON POLICE

• Early Saturday, police responded to a report that Male had been attacked and wounded while operating recording studio at 463 Grand Street in Paterson. The investigation of the attack is ongoing.
  Shakeem Sanders, 23, of Paterson, was charged with:
  
  • violating the emergency orders for operating business
    
    
• Second Male has recording studio on the same floor:
  Brendan R. Vidulich, 34, of Hewitt, charged with:
  
  • violating the emergency orders for operating business
    
    

🔷 PENNS GROVE POLICE

• Late Saturday night, Male at outside gathering of 6 people allegedly became verbally abusive to the officers dispersing them
  Joseph C. Davenport, 34, of Penns Grove, charged with:
  
  • violating the emergency orders
    

🔷 SALEM CITY POLICE

• Female Warrant arrest: While at headquarters, she coughed near arresting officers and claimed she was positive and the health department had been to her apartment
  Deja M. Lewis , 28, of Salem City, was charged with:
  
  • second-degree terroristic threats during an emergency
    
    

🔷 TOMS RIVER POLICE

• Saturday morning, Male became angry when he was told by 179 Route 37 East WaWa he had to wear face cover. Reportedly he started screaming, flailing his arms, and cursing at employees. He allegedly told a customer he was going to hit him with a pipe. He screamed at responding police and resisted arrest. After he was processed, Saturday afternoon he then went to ANOTHER Wawa at 1600 Route 37 East, again refusing to wear a face cover. There he reportedly punched a a male customer in the face, and got the pipe from his car and threatened the male with it. Police again arrested him and put him in Ocean County Jail.
  Stephen Breza, 70, of Toms River, was charged with:
  
  • 2x violating the emergency orders
    
  • 2x disorderly conduct
    
  • 2x failure to submit to fingerprinting
    
  • resisting arrest (disorderly offense)
    
  • second-degree terroristic threats during an emergency
    
  • third-degree possession of a weapon for an unlawful purpose🔷 DENVILLE POLICE

• Friday night, Male ignored officer signaling for him to stop his car and then reportedly crashed into multiple vehicles and attempted to flee on foot.
  Chris Giddle, 21, of Randolph, was charged with:
  
  • eluding (2nd degree)
    
  • resisting arrest (4th degree)
    
  • violating the emergency order

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SunDAY, aPr.12
DAY 40

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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SATURDAY, aPr.11
DAY 39

NEW JERSEY INFORMATION UPDATE

Saturday, Apr. 11 - 1pm
Day 39
from Governor Phil Murphy 

🔺3,599 New Patients
🔺58,151 Total NJ Patients

🔺 COVID NJ HOSPITALIZATION

• 7,618 ​ in all NJ hospitals
• Critical Care: 1,746
  • Using Ventilators: 1,650 (95%)
• 682 Discharged from Critical Hospitals to continue care at Alternate FEMA Hospitals and US Naval Ship Comfort, Convalesce in Hotels, and recuperate at Home
  
  

🔷 44% POSITIVITY RATE

• 111,410 tests performed on symptomatic people
• 49,368 were positive

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🙏🏻 251 Newly Deceased
Including​

• 19-Year Corrections Officer at East Jersey State Prison: Nelson Perdomo, 44, of Old Bridge
  
  
• US Army Vet, Hazlet Business Owners Association member, Northern Monmouth Chamber of Commerce member, Bayshore Senior Center member,
  Youth Basketball Coach, John McCarthy
  
  
• Pro-Bono civil rights attorney in 1963 St. Augustine, FL : Martin “Marty” Fox, 96
  
  
• Former Jersey City Police Officer and former 12-Year Jersey City Councilwoman Viola Richardson
  Mayor Steven Fulop
  "These times are hard. We are so sad to share the passing of former Councilwoman Viola Richardson. I served with her for eight years on the City Council and she defined “fighter” and “public servant”. She was a champion for her ward and a champion for Jersey City. RIP Viola."

🙏🏻 2,183 Total Deceased

🔷 NJ DECEASED RESULTS BY RACE

• 52%  - White
• 22% - African American
• 17%- Hispanic
• 6% - Asian
• 3% investigating

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🔷 LONG TERM FACILITIES

• 305 Long Term facilities are reporting at least 1 positive patient out of 375 NJ facilities
• 4,179 Residents are positive out of 75,000 residents
• 15 of newly deceased

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🔷 PSYCHIATRIC FACILITIES

• 160 Staff / 80 patients positive
• 5 deceased patients

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🔺 COVID NJ HOSPITALIZATIONS TIERED APPROACH
From Health Commissioner Judith Persichilli

🔷 TIER 1 and TIER 2: CRITICAL
Patients at Currently Working Hospitals

• Critical Care: 1,746
• Using Ventilators: 1,650
  
  

🔷 TIER 3: SURGERIES:
Patients requiring surgeries at US Naval ship Comfort and at reopened closed Hospitals:

• East Orange General Hospital
• Barnert Hospital (Paterson)
• Woodbury (Inspira Medical Center in Gloucester)
  
  

🔷 TIER 4: CONTINUED CARE
Patients at FEMA Medical Hospitals

• Meadowlands Convention Center / capacity 250
• Edison Convention Center / capacity 500
• Atlantic City Convention Center / capacity 250
  
  

🔷 TIER 5: CONVALESCENT CARE
Patients at Hotels

• Health Care workers who have tested positive
  
  

🔷 TIER 6: QUARANTINE
Patients at Dorms

• Asymptomatic individuals, including homeless
  
  

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🔺URGENT NEED FOR HEALTH CARE VOLUNTEERS TO WORK AT MEADOWLANDS

SIGN UP HERE: Covid19.NJ.gov/Forms/Volunteer

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🔺 BARS-RESTAURANT STAFF MUST WEAR FACE COVERING AND GLOVES / CUSTOMERS PICKING UP FROM INSIDE MUST WEAR FACE COVERING
Executive Order: 122
▪️ Restaurants/Bars must provide face coverings and gloves to Staff
▪️ ONLY Customers who need to go inside to pick up an order must wear face covering
Governor Phil Murphy
"I am expanding the requirement to wear a face covering to ALL customers heading into one of the restaurants and bars that remain in operation as they get their takeout orders. If you’re not walking into an establishment, a face covering will not be required. We will require that restaurants and bars give face coverings and gloves to all their food-service personnel.
A face covering does not mean a medical-grade mask. There are any number of ways you can cover your mouth and nose with a bandana or a homemade fabric covering."
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🔺 BUSES-TRAINS REQUIRED TO LIMIT TO 50% CAPACITY / STAFF MUST WEAR GLOVES AND FACE COVERINGS / RIDERS MUST WEAR FACE COVERINGS
Executive Order: 125
Governor Phil Murphy
"I’m signing an Executive Order directing NJ TRANSIT and all private carriers to cut the capacity on all trains, buses, light rail vehicles, and paratransit vehicles to 50% of their maximum. This Executive Order also requires NJ Transit and the private carriers to supply their workers with gloves and face coverings. All riders are required to wear a face covering when traveling either on NJ TRANSIT or with a private carrier, unless they cannot for medical reasons."

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🔷 FEMA FREE TESTING SITES WILL CONTINUE THROUGH MAY
opens 8am until 500 tests are completed
Saturday, Apr. 11:

• Bergen Community College for ALL
• PNC Bank Arts Center for First Responders ONLY
• Sunday, Apr. 12: CLOSED

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💛 #NJThanksYou

• Shout out to David Placek of Montclair: His 12 tenants have a 3-month rent free holiday through June. "He exemplifies the spirit we need to see right now of people stepping up to make sure others can come out of this emergency stronger."
  
  
• Shout out to Warren Hills High School and Mount Olive High School that assembled 15,000 face shields

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🔷 CORPORATE DONATIONS

• Joe and Clara Tsai Foundation, from LaJolla: Donated 150,000 surgical masks and nearly 198,000 N95 masks
  
  
• Mallinckrodt Pharmaceuticals, from Staines-Upon-Thames, UK: Donated 100 gallons of hand sanitizer
  
  
• Precious Cosmetics - in Lodi: Donated 100 bottles of hand sanitizer 

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FRIDAY, aPr.10
DAY 38

NEW JERSEY INFORMATION UPDATE

Friday, Apr. 10 - 10am
Day 38

from Governor Phil Murphy
"With a major holiday weekend upon us....Stay home, please, period."

🔺3,627 New Patients
🔺54,588 Total NJ Patients

🔺 COVID NJ HOSPITALIZATIONS

• 7,570 ​ in all NJ hospitals
  • Critical Care: 1,679
    • Using Ventilators: 1,663 (99%)
• Discharged Yesterday to Recover at FEMA Hospitals, Hotels, and Home: 682

🔷 44% POSITIVITY RATE

• 105,611 tests performed on symptomatic people
• 43,676 were positive

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🙏🏻 233 Newly Deceased
Including

• 32 years as Dean of Admissions at NJ City University, former Executive Director Joint Meeting of Essex & Union Counties Improvement Authority, highschool history teacher, former (and first African-American) Mayor Hillside: Sam McGhee, 79
  
  
• Co-owner Emergency Pest Control in Orange: Evelyn Sanchez, 62, of Sparta 
  ​
  
• 40-year Internist Physician serving at Clara Maass Hospital, Meadowlands Sports Complex, Belleville private physician: Dr. Francis Molinari  

🙏🏻 1,932 Total Deceased

• 58% Males / 42% Females
  
  

🔷 AGES PERCENTAGE OF TOTAL DECEASED
Ages range from 20 to 103

• under 30: 1%
• 30 to 49: 4%
• 50 to 64: 17%
• 65 to 79: 33%
• 80 and older: 45%

🔷 NJ DECEASED RESULTS BY RACE

• 64% - White
• 20% - African American
• 6% - Asian
• 1% - Pacific Islanders
• 9% investigating
  
  

🔷 UNDERLYING CONDITIONS DECEASED

• 48%  

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🔷 LONG TERM FACILITIES

• 262 Long Term facilities are reporting at least 1 positive patient out of 375 NJ facilities
• 4,179 Residents are positive out of 75,000 residents
• 71 of newly deceased

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🔷 NJ VETERANS HOMES UPDATE
Administered by the New Jersey Department of Military and Veterans Affairs

• 3 homes, total of 845 residents

🔷 PARAMUS VETERANS MEMORIAL HOME

• 17 Staff / 29 Residents = Total 46 positive
  • 8 Hospitalized
  • 13 Covid-19 resident deaths out of 34 deceased residents
    • (21 deceased were not Covid-related)

🔷 MENLO PARK VETERANS MEMORIAL HOME

• 5 Staff / 16 Residents = Total 21 positive
  • 12 Hospitalized
  • 4 Covid-19 resident deaths

🔷 VINELAND VETERANS MEMORIAL HOME

• 0 cases residents / staff

🔷 NJ HEALTH DEPARTMENT ASSISTING WITH STAFFING

• 15 RNs and 7 LPNs
  • including volunteers

🔷 NJ NATIONAL GUARD ASSISTING WITH STAFFING
As part of their normal assistance when active in state:

• 40 Combat medics to Paramus
• 35 Combat medics to Menlo Park

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🔺 SUPERVISED TEMPORARY HOME CONFINEMENT FOR LOW-RISK INMATES / EARLY PAROLE FOR SOME
Working with the New Jersey Department of Corrections
Executive Order 124

Governor Murphy:
“My Administration’s top priority is the health and safety of all nine million New Jerseyans, including those who are currently incarcerated. The correctional setting presents unique challenges to social distancing, particularly for vulnerable populations. Allowing some of our most vulnerable individuals who do not pose a public safety threat to temporarily leave prison will protect both their health, and the health and safety of the men and women working in our correctional facilities. With this action, New Jersey will join several other states, and the federal government, in taking necessary steps to strike a balance between public health, public safety, and victims’ rights.”

🔷 LOW-RISK INMATES WHO MEET THESE STANDARDS:
The Committee will consider all previous convictions when making recommendations for home confinement.

• Age 60 and Older
• Underlying medical conditions
  • SOME: Whose terms ends within 3 months
  • SOME: Who were denied parole within 1 year

🔷 HOMELESS INMATES:
NJ DOC Office of Transitional Services:

• Health Assessment
• Housing needs and assistance including SNAP in place before leaving
  
  

🔷 VIOLENT INMATES EXCLUDED INCLUDE

• Murder
• Manslaughter
  
• Sex Assault
  
• Kidnapping
  
• Robbery
  
• Aggravated assault
  
• Any offense subject to the No Early Release Act 
  
  

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🔷 NJ JAILS UPDATE
Administered by the New Jersey Department of Corrections

CURRENTLY:

• 129 Staff / 20 Inmates = Total 149 positive
  • 2 Staff / 1 Inmate death
• 400 inmates quarantine
• 1000 staff quarantine

🔷 INTENSIVE CLEANING

• Facilities and Vehicles
  
  

🔷 ENTRANCE SCREENING

• Anyone entering facility undergoes Health screening

🔷 NO VISITORS CONTINUES
All family visits, non-essential vendors, community programs stopped

• Inmates receive free postage, increased phone calls and email
  
  

🔷 STAFF SCHEDULING

• When possible, some staff work remotely
• Created flex and rotation schedules
  
  

🔷 MASKS

• Since April 4,, all Staff required to wear surgical grade masks at all facilities and offices
  
  

🔷 QUARANTINE / ISOLATION AREAS WITH INFIRMARY BEDS
There are also additional Negative pressure rooms

• Staff in these areas wear:
  • Surgical grade masks and N95 Masks
  • Gowns
  • Face shields
  • Tyvek protective jumpsuits
• Inmates in these areas required to wear PPE also
  • Any inmates who have been exposed are in quarantine
    
    

🔷 INMATE ACTIVITY

• Communal dining stopped
• Recreation and religious gatherings modified
• Transports all accommodate social distancing
  
  

🔷 COUNTY INMATES

• All County inmate intakes suspended since March

🔷 PAROLE BOARD HEARINGS

• continuing remotely

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🔷 FEMA FREE TESTING SITES WILL CONTINUE THROUGH MAY
opens 8am until 500 tests are completed
Friday, Apr. 10:

• Bergen Community College ONLY
  • Due to yesterday's winds, some of tent structures need to be rebuilt, and testing is on delay

Saturday, Apr. 11:

• Bergen Community College for ALL
• PNC Bank Arts Center for First Responders ONLY

Sunday, Apr. 12: CLOSED

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💛 #NJThanksYou

• Shout out to Stevens Institute of Technology for opening their Jonas Hall dormitory "so the folks at Hoboken University Medical Center and Hoboken Fire Department can have a place to recharge"
  
  
• Shout out to Wyckoff Girlscouts Troop 24 for creating simple headbands to stop the physical discomfort Valley Hospital nurses get from wearing facemasks

🔷 CORPORATE DONATIONS

• Uniqlo Lifewear donated 100,000 medical-grade masks for NJ's health and safety responders 

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thursDAY, aPr.9
DAY 37

NEW JERSEY INFORMATION UPDATE

Thursday, Apr. 9 - 1pm
Day 37

from Governor Phil Murphy

🔺3,748 New Patients
🔺51,027 Total NJ Patients

🔺 COVID NJ HOSPITALIZATIONS

• 7,363 in all NJ hospitals
• Critical Care: 1,523
• Using Ventilators: 1,576 (97%)
• Discharged Yesterday to Recover at Home: 471

🔷 44% POSITIVITY RATE

• 100,478 tests performed on symptomatic people
• 43,313 were positive

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🙏🏻 198 Newly Deceased
Including

• EMT in North Bergen and at St. Claire’s Hospital, Kevin Leiva , 24, of Pompton Lakes 
  
  
• Air Force Vet, Vice Chair Bayonne Housing Authority Board, Pastor Friendship Baptist Church in Bayonne: Reverend H. Gene Sykes
  
  
• Owner of 5 South Jersey ShopRites, Director, Cooper Hospital Foundation, Director of Jewish Federation of Southern New Jersey: Steven Ravitz, 73

🙏🏻 1,700 Total Deceased

• 58% Males / 42% Females
  
  

🔷 AGES PERCENTAGE OF TOTAL DECEASED

• under 30: 1%
• 30 to 49: 4%
• 50 to 64: 17%
• 65 to 79: 33%
• 80 and older: 45%

🔷 NJ DECEASED RESULTS BY RACE

• 61% - White
• 22% - African American
• 6% - Asian
• 1% - Pacific Islanders
• 10% investigating
  
  

🔷 UNDERLYING CONDITIONS DECEASED

• 44%

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🔷 LONG TERM FACILITIES

• 262 Long Term facilities are reporting at least 1 positive patient out of 375 NJ facilities
• 3,388 Residents are positive out of 75,000 residents
• 20 of newly deceased

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🔷 NJ VETERANS HOMES
Administered by the New Jersey Department of Military And Veterans Affairs

🔷 PARAMUS VETERANS MEMORIAL HOME

• 40 positive
• 5 Hospitalized
• 10 Covid-19 deaths out of 34 deceased
  • (24 deceased were not Covid-related)
    
    

🔷 MENLO PARK VETERANS MEMORIAL HOME AND VINELAND VETERANS MEMORIAL HOME
Combined numbers:

• 18 positive
• 4 Covid-19 deaths
  
  

🔷 NATIONAL GUARD ASSISTING WITH STAFFING

• 40 Combat medics to Paramus
• 35 Combat medics to Menlo Park

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🔷 FEMA FREE TESTING SITES WILL CONTINUE THROUGH MAY
opens 8am until 500 tests are completed
Thursday, Apr. 9:

• Bergen Community College ONLY

Friday, Apr. 10:

• Bergen Community College ONLY

Saturday, Apr. 11:

• Bergen Community College for ALL
• PNC Bank Arts Center for First Responders ONLY

Sunday, Apr. 12: CLOSED

🔷 $5 MILLION FEDERAL SUPPORT ALLOCATED TO NJ LOCAL DEPARTMENTS OF HEALTH
Money will support:

• Contact tracing
• Guidance to long-term care facilities
• Community testing sites
• Individuals who need a safe place to quarantine

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🔷 FAITH COMMUNITIES
Stay at home, with immediate household members only

• Virtual Seders

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🔺 GRACE PERIOD FOR INSURANCE PAYMENTS / CLAIMS MUST BE PAID OUT / BACK-PAYMENTS TO BE SPREAD OUT OVER REMAINDER OF TERMS
Executive Order: 123

🔷 MINIMUM 60-DAY GRACE PERIOD:

• Health insurance
• Dental insurance

🔷 90-DAY GRACE PERIOD:

• Home insurance
• Renters insurance
• Life insurance
• Auto insurance
• Insurance premium-financing arrangements

🔷 CLAIMS MUST BE PAID OUT

• All claims covered by the insurance policy must be paid out to those who are within these grace periods

🔷 BACK-PAYMENTS MUST BE SPREAD OUT OVER TERM

• Insurers cannot demand repayment of unpaid premiums in a lump sum at the end of the grace period
• Back-payments must be spread out over the remainder of the insurance term.

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🔺 NJ LAW ENFORCEMENT CRACKDOWN: ZERO TOLERANCE
LAST NIGHT:

 🔷 CLINTON POLICE

• Male walking back and forth along Route 22, displaying obscene poster boards and making obscene gestures to motorists (Tuesday)
  Albert E. French, 33, of Milford, charged with with:
  • violating the emergency orders
  • disorderly conduct

 
🔷 CLAYTON POLICE

• Female spit on male claiming she was positive
  Cheyenne M. Scott, 19, of Clayton, charged with:
  • harassment (petty disorderly offense)

 
🔷 CHERRY HILL POLICE

• Female drinking in township park with a juvenile (Apr. 2)
  Madison L. Greenetz 25, of Cherry Hill, charged with:
  • violating the emergency orders
  • providing alcohol to minor (disorderly offense)
  • trespassing in violation of local ordinance (petty disorderly offense)

 
🔷 BRICK POLICE

• Coliseum Barbershop & Hair Salon Owner kept both open, with employee assisting:
  (Owner) Ibrahim Muhammad, 25, of Brick
  (Employee) Ashley Appleton-Tims, 25, of Brick, were both charged with:
  • violating the emergency orders

 
🔷 UNION CITY POLICE

• Male hosted gathering of 13 on his property, had been warned on several occasions to stop doing that (Tuesday)
  Moshe Knopfler, 55, of Union City, charged with:
  • violation of the emergency orders (disorderly offense)
  • failure to disperse (petty disorderly offense)

 
🔷 CAMDEN POLICE

• After drug overdose at Walter Rand Transportation Center, male tested positive. Police housed him in isolation in hotel, paid for by County. He refused to stay and was then isolated in psychiatric facility. At one point he reportedly stated he did not “give a [expletive] who he infected.” Additionally, he allegedly threatened security staff at Cooper University Hospital.
  Sean M. McGuire, 42, of Camden, charged with:
  • second-degree terroristic threats during an emergency
  • third-degree endangering
  • fourth-degree risking widespread injury
• Craps game gathering of 19, Organizers were already warned after similar gambling event
  Willie Boles, 50, of Pennsauken,
  Charles E. Scotton, 51, of Pennsauken both charged with:
  • violating the emergency orders
  • gambling in public

 
🔷 LINDENWOLD POLICE

• Male refused to leave clearly marked closed basketball court, and had been previously warned
  William L. Joseph, 20 , of Lindenwold, charged with:
  • violating the emergency orders (disorderly offense)
  • defiant trespass (disorderly offense)

 
🔷 ELIZABETH POLICE

• Medina Liquor Store owner charged after large gathering in front area and backroom filled with drinkers. ABC shut it down and police found multiple code violations
  Armin, Mahesh, 59, of Iselin, charged with:
  • violating the emergency orders
  • alcoholic beverage control regulations

 
🔷 NEWARK POLICE

• 700 citizens have been reporting gatherings
• 34 summonses, 2 businesses closed
  (34 summonses and 3 more closed on Tuesday)

 
🔷 UNION TOWNSHIP POLICE

• Parked Car Burglaries: Male arrested after seen entering 3 cars
  Shakir Scott, 20, of Newark, charged with:
  • three counts of burglary (3rd degree)

 
🔷 NEW BRUNSWICK POLICE

• Male falsely reported shooting to 911: Police arrived, determined there was no shooting. Brown was outside and was arrested (Monday)
  Nathaniel Brown, 44, of New Brunswick, charged with:
  • misuse of the 911 system (4th degree)
  • violating the emergency orders

 
🔷 PATERSON POLICE

• 40 summonses, 2 businesses closed (Monday)
• Domestic Violence Male Arrest: reportedly resisted arrest, stated he was positive (Monday)
  Male, 26, of Paterson, was charged with:
  • contempt (4th degree)
  • obstruction (disorderly offense)
  • resisting arrest (disorderly offense)
• Deluxe Bubbles Car Wash open and operating; Son of owner reportedly became aggressive with officers and would not provide ID as they were warning Owner to shut down: (Monday)
  Juan Ortiz, 36, of Paterson, was charged with:
  • violating the emergency orders (disorderly offense)
  • resisting arrest (disorderly offense)
• Quilvio Tavern remained open for business; customers were gathered inside, and drinking at bar
  Elizabeth Fernandez, 56, of Woodland Park
  Juan Rosario, 60, of Paterson, were both charged with:
  • violating the emergency orders

 
🔷 MAURICE RIVER POLICE

• DWI Arrest after Accident: Female argued and reportedly coughed on troopers, said she was positive and she was “happy” that she was infecting them with the virus. (Tuesday)
  Zharia N. Young, 21, of Woodbine, charged with:
  • third-degree terroristic threats
  • fourth-degree aggravated assault on an officer
  • DWI

 
🔷 RANDOLPH POLICE

• Male entered Randolph Township Recycling Center, stole refrigerator, and reportedly "violently dismantled it by the side of the road while yelling at township employees"
  Richard Mariano, 66, of Randolph, charged with:
  • violating the emergency orders
  • theft by unlawful taking (disorderly offense)
  • trespassing (petty disorderly offense)
  • disorderly conduct

 
🔷 PEMBERTON TOWNSHIP POLICE:

• Male causing disturbance, at gathering, after prior warning:
  Kobe A. Kemp, 20, of Browns Mills, charged with:
  • violating the emergency orders

 
🔷 JERSEY CITY POLICE

• Target Sneezing Incident: Female argued with another woman who she knew, and reportedly she purposely sneezed on the her, leaving saliva on her clothing and skin. (Apr. 2)
  Bernadette Bisogno, 49, of Jersey City, charged with:
  • harassment (petty disorderly offenses)
  • simple assault (disorderly offense),
  • violation of the emergency orders (disorderly offense).

 
🔷 KINNELON POLICE

• Buy and Save Furniture Owner initially charged Sunday after staying open; Police returned on Monday and found store again was open.
  Feras Abudaya, 33, of Kinnelon, charged with:
  • two counts of violating the emergency orders

🔷 ALCOHOLIC BEVERAGE CONTROL (“ABC”)

• Seeking to Revoke License of Post Time Pub in Blairstown, for serving alcoholic beverages for on-premise consumption on March 27 and April 2. Business owner was initially warned and then charged the second time

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💛 #NJThanksYou

• Joshua Meyer, Kunj Parmar, and Colton Jacobucci, are working with their Rowan University mechanical engineering professor, Dr. Francis Haas making polycarbonate intubation boxes and donating to help protect Heathcare
  
  
• Marriott Courtyard Newark providing free rooms for healthcare workers

support: Text
​NJ to 741741

Apr. 9
​
from New Jersey Department of Children and Families:
"Day-to-day life is incredibly stressful right now. If you're overwhelmed and feel like you're headed toward crisis, PLEASE text NJ to 741741 - anytime 24/7. A trained counselor will respond, listen, and help you through your concerns."
​
#YouAreNotAlone

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wednesDAY, aPr.8
DAY 36

NEW JERSEY INFORMATION UPDATE

Wednesday, Apr. 8
1pm
Day 36
 
from Governor Phil Murphy
"The story of Passover is powered by hope, freedom, and resilience. That message resonates with us now more than ever. Chag Pesach Sameach to the Jewish community throughout New Jersey and around the world."

🔺3,088 New Patients
🔺47,437 Total NJ Patients

🔺 COVID NJ HOSPITALIZATIONS

• 7,026 in all NJ hospitals
• Critical Care: 1,617
• Using Ventilators: 1,576 (97%)

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🙏🏻 272 Newly Deceased
Including

• NJ Transit Conductor on Raritan Valley Line for 20 years: Joe Hansen, 62 
  
  
• Belmar St. Patrick’s Day Parade Founder, Lynch's Hotel Owner, Kiwanis President: Jerry Lynch, 91, of Belmar 
  
  
• Greensboro Protester, Civil Rights Leader, former National NAACP Deputy Executive Director: Sr. Deacon First Baptist Church of Lincoln Gardens: Richard E. Barber Sr., 80, of Somerset 

🙏🏻 1,504 Total Deceased

• 59% Males / 41% Females
  
  

🔷 AGES PERCENTAGE OF TOTAL DECEASED

• under 30: 1%
• 30 to 49: 4%
• 50 to 64: 17%
• 65 to 79: 33%
• 80 and older: 45%
  
  

🔷 NJ DECEASED RESULTS BY RACE

• 61% - White
• 22% - African American
• 6% - Asian
• 1% - other
  
  

🔷 UNDERLYING CONDITIONS DECEASED

• 44%

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🔷 LONG TERM FACILITIES

• 231 Long Term facilities are reporting at least 1 positive patient out of 375 NJ facilities
• 48 of newly deceased

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🔷 HOSPITALS TRANSFORMING GENERAL CARE PATIENT ROOMS TO CRITICAL CARE ROOMS
Northern NJ Hospitals at maximum Critical Care capacity are creatively and aggressively re-purposing their General Patient rooms and workspaces.

• Generalized patients in need of continued hospitalization are being transferred to FEMA Field Hospitals / Naval Ship Comfort
• Covid patients not requiring further Critical Care will isolate at home to continue recuperation, some with breathing apparatus
• Hospitals are also transforming other hospital areas to Critical Care:
  • Meeting spaces
  • Break Rooms
  • Elective procedural areas
    
    

🔷 HOSPITAL UPDATE AFTER TRANSFORMING:

• Hunterdon Medical Center, Flemington
  • increased Critical Care bed capacity from 178 to 366 beds
• Hackensack University Medical Center
  • increased Critical Care capacity from 48 to 191
  • 70 beds also reserved for non-Critical Care Covid patients
• Hackensack Meridian Health Hospitals in NJ
  •  Negative Pressure Ventilation rooms from 278 to 869 (isolation rooms)

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🔺 NJ LONG TERM FACILITIES STATEWIDE RESPONSE PLAN
NJ State Health Commissioner Judith Persichilli:
"We are hoping that this planning can be implemented with the least amount of stress as possible for our elderly. Our goal is to keep those who have not been exposed, safe, and to ensure that those who are exposed or those who have tested positive get the care they need."

• Nursing homes throughout NJ continue to experience a shortage of staffing and PPE. Since March, all employees and vendors have been symptom-assessed and visitation stopped.
• On Monday, every facility was ordered to communicate their patient numbers to both NJ Department of Health, and to families, and to provide the state with their staffing information.

🔺 RESIDENTS WILL BE TRANSFERRED IF NECESSARY

• If a resident's facility is not able to comply to this order either due to staffing or space limitations, residents will be transferred to another facility that can accommodate them
• The process, if needed, will take place regionally
  
  

🔷 STATEWIDE PLAN

• Cohorting: All facilities are to classify, and then separate, residents into a different wing or another floor if possible
• All facilities are being accessed to see if they are able to house positive residents in single rooms with private bathrooms.
• All PPE is inventoried daily
• All facility staff member's availability and staffing plans are under review
• Staffing is to be kept to one specific resident classification group to limit spread of infection
• Residents to be evaluated consistently daily, per employee shift
  
  

🔺 LONGTERM FACILITY EMPLOYEE CLASSIFICATION
Staff Members Classified As:

• Available to Work
• Home on Quarantine
• Symptomatic, and Isolated
• Positive and Hospitalized
  
  

🔺 LONGTERM FACILITY RESIDENT CLASSIFICATION
Residents Classified As:

• No symptoms, and have not been exposed
  • No symptoms, but have been exposed at a Long Term facility
• Symptomatic, and testing negative
  • Symptomatic, and testing positive
• Positive and transferred to - or back from - a Hospital
  
  

🔺 RESIDENTS TO BE EVALUATED CONSISTENTLY PER SHIFT
Residents to be evaluated daily, per shift for:

• Fever
• Respiratory symptoms
• Shortness of breath
• Malaise
• Stomach issues
• Coughing
  
  

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🔷 TWO FEMA HOSPITALS IN PLACE
Utilizing Convention Centers at Meadowlands and Edison

• Today, Gov. Murphy toured New Jersey Convention and Exposition Center in Edison
• These sites are for NON-Covid 19 patients who are being transferred from Northern NJ maxed out hospitals in order to free up Critical Care beds
  ​

🔷 REFRIGERATOR TRUCKS ARRIVE FOR DECEASED AS MORGUES GROW TO CAPACITY
Governor Phil Murphy
"Wawa has sent a 53-foot refrigerated truck to Bergen County after hearing about our need for refrigerated trucks to help take the pressure off our morgues and funeral homes in protecting the bodies of those we have lost. Their help is invaluable. We’re so thankful." 

• On Monday, Governor Murphy ordered 20 Refrigerator Trucks to store 1,680 deceased
• Today, WAWA sent a 53' Refrigerated Truck for use in Bergen County
• FEMA morgue workers are called "Deathcare" workers
  
  

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🔺ALL NON-ESSENTIAL CONSTRUCTION ENDS ON FRIDAY / ALL WEAR FACE COVERS AND GLOVES PAID FOR BY EMPLOYER
Executive Order: 122

Governor Phil Murphy
"We must continue to work together to flatten the curve of new COVID-19 cases in New Jersey,” said Governor Murphy. “By ceasing all non-essential construction projects and imposing additional mitigation requirements on essential businesses, we are furthering our aggressive efforts to enforce social distancing and limiting our public interactions to only the most essential in order to reduce the spread of COVID-19."

🔷 ESSENTIAL WORK PROJECTS CONTINUE
Transportation:

• Roads, Bridges, Mass transit facilities including airports or seaports

Utilities:

• any project necessary for Energy and Electricity, and any decommissioning of facilities used for electricity generation

Affordable Housing:

• Residential projects exclusively designated

Schools:

• any project involving pre-K-12 schools and higher education

Essential Business Facility

• where the manufacture, distribution, storage, or servicing of goods or products that are sold by online retail businesses
• Data centers critical to a business’s ability to function
• Social Services including homeless shelters
• Law Enforcement / First Responder buildings
• Any government project (Town / County / State / US)
• Anywhere that the structural integrity of a building could cause a hazard if construction stops, or needs to begin
• Hospitals or any project necessary for the delivery of health care services including pharmaceutical manufacturing facilities
  
  

🔷 ESSENTIAL RESIDENTIAL PROJECTS:
Projects already underway:

• Individual housing:
  • any project for single-family homes or individual apartment unit PROVIDING construction crew of 5 or less
  • Housing where construction is necessary to ensure the unit’s availability by specific date, according to already signed contract
  • Any emergency repairs necessary to ensure the health and safety of residents
    
    

🔷 CONSTRUCTION REQUIRED POLICIES:

• No visitors at worksite, unless essential to project
• Meetings: 10 or less in attendance
  • 6 Feet of distance between workers
• Staggered work start and stop time to limit gatherings
• Staggered Lunch breaks to limit gatherings
• Common Rooms: limit gatherings
• Require infection control practices (hand washing, coughing/sneezing etiquette, and tissue disposal)
• Provide employees break time for repeated handwashing
• Limit Sharing of tools, equipment, and machinery
• Provide sanitization materials to staff
• Require frequent sanitization of high-touch areas like restrooms, breakrooms, equipment, and machinery.
  
  

🔷  BY ORDER: FACE COVERING AND GLOVES

• For all over Age 2
• For all except anyone whose health will be compromised
• No one will be required to produce medical documentation verifying condition
• Business will provide at own expense for Staff
• Any worker refusing is not allowed to enter location
• If worker already owns surgical-grade face covering they will be permitted to wear that instead
  
  

🔷  BY ORDER: EMPLOYERS MUST

• Immediately send home workers who appear to have Covid19 symptoms
• Promptly notify workers if they have had exposure to a - confidential - Covid19 employee at the worksite
• Clean and disinfect the worksite in accordance with CDC guidelines after notification that an employee at the site is Covid19 positive
  
  

🔷 TRUCKING WEIGHT LIMITS INCREASED ON HIGHWAYS / TOLL ROADS

• from 40 tons to 46 tons
• for shipping Covid19 supplies

🔺 MANUFACTURING / WAREHOUSE REQUIREMENTS / ALL WEAR FACE COVERS AND GLOVES PAID FOR BY EMPLOYER
 
🔺 ALL ESSENTIAL RETAIL 50% CAPACITY LIMIT / ALL CUSTOMERS AND EMPLOYEES MUST WEAR FACE COVERINGS / HIGH RISK CUSTOMERS MUST HAVE SPECIAL HOURS / PHYSICAL BARRIERS AT REGISTER

Governor Phil Murphy
"We’re also aiming to mitigate overcrowding at essential retail stores – particularly in our grocery stores. Under this Executive Order, all essential retail must indefinitely limit the number of customers allowed in their stores to NO MORE than 50% of their approved capacity.

Additionally, customers & employees must wear face coverings. Stores must also provide special shopping hours for high-risk individuals, erect physical barriers between customers and cashiers and baggers where practicable, regularly sanitize areas used by their employees, & more."

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🔺 NJ PRIMARY DATE: TUESDAY, JULY 7
Moved from Tuesday, June 2
Executive Order: 120 

Governor Phil Murphy
"I’m signing an Executive Order MOVING the date of our primary elections from Tuesday, June 2nd to Tuesday, July 7th.
Our democracy cannot be a casualty of #COVID19. We want to ensure that every voter can vote without endangering their health or safety."

🔷 INCLUDES:

• President
• US Senate
• US House of Representatives
• 25th District of the New Jersey Legislature
• County Elections and County Committee Elections
• Municipal Elections

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💛 #NJThanksYou

• ICU Nurse Xanilyn Red working on COVID19 floor at St. Peter’s Hospital, works alongside Valentine Red, her father, one of the respiratory therapists
  
  
• Raritan Valley Community College Manufacturing and Engineering and Arts & Design Department, and Somerset County Vocational & Technical High School, have turned to producing 3D-printed face-shields hospitals
  
  
• Disabled Veterans Chapter No. 2 provided gas gift cards to 100 ER healthcare workers

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🔷 CORPORATE DONATIONS

• PSEG: additional donation of 200,000 gloves for healthcare and first responders

uplifting message
​from scott chesney in verona

Apr. 8
​
Scott Chesney is a Motivational Speaker who regularly teaches his audiences in West Essex and around the world how to thrive in the face of challenges. Paralyzed for over 20 years, Cheney has presented his empowering message to over one million people in 38 countries.

Read more about Scott here:
ScottChesney.com

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urgent need for health care volunteers to work at meadowlands

Apr. 8
SIGN UP HERE: Covid19.NJ.gov/Forms/Volunteer

🔷 HEALTH CARE NEEDED:

• Experienced Chief Nursing Officers
• Experienced Chief Medical Officers
• Physicians
• Respiratory Therapists
• All Healthcare professionals
• All Healthcare in training

🔷 APPLY:

• Currently licensed in New Jersey
• Retired and/or previously licensed in New Jersey
• Currently licensed in another state
• Retired and/or previously licensed in another

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tuesday, aPr.7
DAY 35

NEW JERSEY INFORMATION UPDATE

Tuesday, Apr. 7 - 1pm
Day 35

From Governor Murphy:

🔺3,361 New Patients
🔺44,416 Total NJ Patients

🔺 COVID NJ HOSPITALIZATIONS

• 7,017 in all NJ hospitals
• Critical Care: 1,651
• Using Ventilators: 1,540 (94%)

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🔷 LONG TERM FACILITIES PLAN BEING DEVELOPED STATEWIDE

• 188 Long Term facilities are reporting at least 1 positive patient out of 375 NJ facilities
• Long Term facilities are reporting they don't have enough staff and resources needed
• If necessary; patients may be moved to other facilities, statewide

🔷 PSYCHIATRIC HOSPITALS

• 46 Staff Members / 34 Patients positive in all 4 State Hospitals
  
  

🔷 DEVELOPMENTAL CENTERS

• 24 positive results (out of 1200 residents) / 1 deceased in 3 of the 5 facilities
  
  

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🔷 NJ DEPARTMENT OF CORRECTIONS
67 Staff / 5 inmates / 3 residential persons positive

• Adult Diagnostic and Treatment Center, Avenel
  • 3 Staff
• Central Reception and Assignment Facility, Ewing
  • 6 Staff
• Correctional State Training Academy
  • 2 Staff
• Custody Recruitment Unit, Prospect Park
  • 1 Staff
• East Jersey State Prison, Woodbridge
  • 6 Staff
• Edna Mahan Correctional Facility for Women, Clinton
  • 12 Staff
  • 2 Inmates
• Fletcher Residential House, Camden
  • 1 Resident
• Garden State Youth Correctional Facility, Crosswicks
  • 12 Staff
• Harbor House, Newark
  • 1 Resident
• Kintock Residential House, Newark
  • 1 Resident
• Moutainview Youth Correctional Facility, Annandale
  • 7 Staff
• New Jersey State Prison, Trenton
  • 3 Staff
  • 1 Inmates
• Northern State Prison, Newark
  • 17 Staff
  • 2 Inmates
• Southern State Correctional Facility, Delmont Maurice River
  • 1 Staff
• Special Treatment Unit, Avenel
  • 1 Staff

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🙏🏻 232 Newly Deceased
Including

• Food Bank of Monmouth & Ocean worker and Latino Festival Chair: Diana Tennant, Age 51
  
  
• One of first Dominican Republic doctors to open a US clinic: Dr. James Wilson from Bergen County 

🙏🏻 1,232 NJ Total deceased

• 60% Males / 40% Females
  
  

🔷 AGES PERCENTAGE OF TOTAL DECEASED

• under 30: 1%
• 30 to 49: 5%
• 50 to 64: 17%
• 65 to 79: 32%
• 80 and older: 45%
  
  

🔷 NJ DECEASED RESULTS BY RACE

• 60% - White
• 24% - African American
• 5% - Asian
• 11% - other
  
  

🔷 UNDERLYING CONDITIONS DECEASED

• 44%

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🔷 EMERGENCY STAY AT HOME ORDER EXTENDED 30 MORE DAYS

• Through May 7 

🔺 CLOSED: ALL STATE PARKS / FORESTS / COUNTY PARKS AS OF TONIGHT
Executive Order 118
Governor Phil Murphy
"To further social distancing, I’m signing an Executive Order closing ALL State parks and forests and County parks. We’ve seen far too many instances in our parks where people are gathering and socializing in groups. We need to Flatten The Curve. I do not take this action lightly. Some of my fondest memories with my own children are beautiful spring days in parks playing soccer and enjoying our family. But my focus, and my sole mission in life right now, is the health of every New Jersey family."

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🔷 TRI STATE REGIONAL APPROACH CONSIDERED
Connecticut Gov. Ned Lamont, New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo, Pennsylvania Gov. Tom Wolf and Gov. Murphy considering sharing:

• testing
• tracking
• shared approach to business and schools reopening after emergency
• resources
  
  

🔷 FEMA FREE TESTING SITES WILL CONTINUE THROUGH MAY
opens 8am until 500 tests are completed

• Tuesday, Apr. 7:
  • Bergen Community College ONLY
• Thursday, Apr. 9:
  • Bergen Community College ONLY
• Note: both will be open on Saturday, Apr. 11 and Closed Sunday, Apr. 12
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🔷 PPE DONATE HERE: Covid19.nj.gov/forms/ppedonations
 
_______________________________

🔷 POSITIVE TESTING HEALTH CARE WORKERS

• Can return to work after 3 days without medication with no fever, and significant improvement in any symptoms
  
  

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💛 Thank you to Gina Marie and all of the Healthcare Workers who are coming to help us here in NJ. Let's all pray for them and stay safe at home so we don't make their jobs any harder 💛

💛 THANK YOU HILTON AND AMERICAN EXPRESS
Hilton and American Express are donating up to 1 million hotel room nights across US through the end of May to Healthcare workers who are assisting out of their own regions.

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​
🔺 WAIVED: GRADES 8 AND 12 SCHOOL ASSESSMENTS / NON-TENURED TEACHER OBSERVATION EVALUATIONS
Executive Order 117

ASSESSMENT REQUIREMENTS WAIVED FOR:

• Senior Graduation; no appeal required for 13,000 students still outstanding
• 8th Grade Progress Proficiency
  
  

STUDENT GROWTH DATA USAGE

• Prohibited as an evaluation tool for educators
  
  

NON-TENURE TEACHER ASSESSMENTS WAIVED:

• Three Observations / Evaluations waived
  
  

Governor Phil Murphy
“As a state, we must continue to adapt to the new reality that COVID-19 has created in our state, a task that our students and educators are navigating every day. The waiver of these student assessment requirements will ensure that no student is left behind or unduly penalized due to these extraordinary circumstances.”

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​
🔷 BOARDS OF EDUCATION DATES MOVED: ELECTION DATE / BUDGET DEADLINE / NON-TENURE TEACHERS NOTICE AND ACCEPTANCE / BOARD TERM EXTENDED
TO MAY 12
Executive Order No. 116

• If proposed school budget is rejected by the voters on May 12, the May 19 deadline for presenting and certifying the tax levy to the county board of taxation is extended by three weeks to June 9
• Deadline to give notice to nontenured teaching staff members about their employment for the following year is extended by three weeks from May 15 to June 5
• Deadline for nontenured teaching staff members to accept such an offer of employment will be changed from June 1 to June 22
• School board members whose statutory terms were set to expire following the April election will have their terms extended until the election in May.
  
  

Governor Phil Murphy
"To ensure that New Jerseyans can safely exercise their right to vote, we postponed our school board elections scheduled for April until May. As a result of this change, we’re providing impacted school districts and municipalities with ample time to make informed decisions regarding budgets and employment of nontenured teaching staff by extending these important deadlines.” 

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🔺 WIC SERVICES AVAILABLE BY PHONE / SUBSTITUTIONS ALLOWED
WIC provides about $60/month benefit, per Child, to support Women in need:

• who are pregnant and post-partum
  • and/or have infants and children up to age 5
    
    

🔺 ESSEX COUNTY APPLY BY PHONE:

• Newark Health and Community Wellness
  Saint James Family Health Services
  • 973-733-7628
• Beth Israel Medical Center
  • 973-733-5157
• Rutgers NJ Medical School
  University Hospital OB-GYN Clinic
  • 973-972-3416
    ​

🔷 APPROVED FOOD LIST

🔷 SUBSTITUTES NOW AVAILABLE DUE TO LIMITED SHOP INVENTORIES
As of Apr. 1 - additional food items are now covered

From Tammy Murphy
"Families who rely on WIC can now substitute certain items of food like cheese, cereal, whole grains, and more. WIC services are now available by phone. If you have questions or want to apply for WIC, call your local agency"
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🔺 NJ LAW ENFORCEMENT CRACKDOWN: ZERO TOLERANCE

LAST NIGHT:
🔷 NEWARK POLICE:

• issued 26 summonses; 4 businesses closed

 
🔷 ELIZABETH POLICE:

• Domestic Violence Stabbing arrest of Male who had bloody shirt and face; reportedly kicked, punched and pushed officers attempting to enter house. As he was taken into custody, he reportedly yelled “COVID! COVID!,” and coughed on the officers while attempting to spit on them
  Male, 40, of Elizabeth, was charged with:
  • second-degree terroristic threats during an emergency
  • third-degree aggravated assault on an officer
  • third-degree resisting arrest
  • fourth-degree throwing bodily fluid at an officer
  • obstruction (disorderly offense)
  • simple assault/domestic violence
    
    

🔷 CAMDEN POLICE (Sunday night)

• Gathering of people arguing outside and inside a home; Female allegedly cursed and yelled “I do not have to go anywhere,” - then reportedly stated she was positive and started coughing in the middle of 6 people, including officers
  Dasia Syms, 31, of Camden, was charged with:
  • fourth-degree causing or risking widespread injury
  • fourth-degree contempt
  • disorderly conduct
  • failure to disperse (disorderly offense)
    
    

🔷 PARSIPPANY POLICE:

• Domestic Violence Separation: Husband allowed to enter home on alternate days, when wife isn't present. Wife presented police with video proof that Husband was coughing on and touching objects in the home while saying he had “the rona” and “Do you want the rona?”
  Male, 39, of Parsippany, was charged with:
  • violating the emergency orders
    
    

🔷 SEASIDE PARK POLICE:

• Male hosted backyard party of 15 to 20 people
  Thomas J. Wilson, 56, of Monroe Township, was charged with:
  • violating the emergency orders
    
    

🔷 SEA BRIGHT POLICE (Saturday)

• Police responded to an alarm at a closed, and fenced off Monmouth Beach Pavilion to find Male inside the pavilion smoking and playing music
  Ryan Coolahan, 24, of Monmouth Beach, was charged with:
  • criminal trespass (disorderly offense)
  • violation of the emergency orders (disorderly offense)
    
    

🔷 PENNSAUKEN POLICE (Apr. 1)

• Male fishing off a boat ramp in closed park
• Dominic Affatoto, 35, of Maple Shade, was charged with:
  • violating the emergency orders
    
    

🔷 CAMDEN POLICE (Saturday night)

• Neighborhood gathering: Male tore up and discarded a warning police gave to him to remind him about not gathering, saying he does not care about getting a fine because he has money in the bank
  Angel Martinez, 34, of Camden, charged with:
  • two violations of the emergency orders
    
    

🔷 TRENTON POLICE

• issued 2 summonses for violations of the emergency orders and closed 1 business

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🔷 CORPORATE DONATIONS

• Hilton and American Express donating up to 1 million hotel room nights across US through the end of May to healthcare workers
  
  
• BASF: donating 1,000 gallons of hand sanitizer which is produced in Washington Borough, Warren County
  
  
• Hatteras Press, in Tinton Falls, created 7,000 protective face shields for First Responders / Healthcare and will create another 10,000 a day over next two weeks.
  ​
  
• Bristol Myers Suibb donated $345,000 worth of PPE and announced it will provide free medicines to those who have lost their health insurance due this emergency 

two fema field hospitals in place

Apr. 7
NJ Utilizing Convention Centers at Meadowlands and Edison
​
Update from Pete Gaynor, National Administrator of FEMA Federal Emergency Management Agency:
"This past weekend, the New Jersey National Guard helped set up 500 hospital beds in a field medical station at the New Jersey Convention Center. This is one of 3 sites Governor Phil Murphy is opening to lift pressure off hospitals dealing with #COVID19 patients."

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 LIGHT THE FIGHT 
TO HONOR
​HEALTHCARE WORKERS 

Apr. 7

Hackensack Meridian Health is launching "Light The Fight" to celebrate Healthcare Heroes.

LIGHTS:

• Hang a string of lights
• Place lanterns or flameless candles in front of your homes
  ​

#LightTheFight

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moNDAY, aPr.6
DAY 34

NEW JERSEY INFORMATION UPDATE

Monday, Apr. 6 - 2pm
Day 34

from Governor Phil Murphy

🔺 3,663 New Patients
🔺41,090 Total NJ Patients
​ 
 🔷 LONG TERM FACILITY

• 159 long term facilities are reporting at least 1 positive patient out of 375 NJ facilities
  
  

🔷 DEVELOPMENTAL FACILITY

• 3 Developmental Centers are reporting at least 1 positive patient out of 5 NJ facilities

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🙏🏻 86 Newly Deceased
Including

• Nurse for 37 years at Clara Maas and Northern State Prison: Susan Cicala
• Becton Regional HS Child Study Team Manager - and jewelry designer: Javiera Rodriguez, 43
• Weehawken Finance Director and BOE President: Richard Barsa, 65
• Jersey City Councilman Michael Yun
• Former NJ Dept Health Dep. Commissioner: Colette Lamothe-Galette
• Single mom and Nurse for 20 years at Hudson County Correctional Center: Daisy Doronila of Nutley

Newly Deceased

• 15 of newly deceased from Long term facility
• 1 newly deceased from Developmental Center

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🙏🏻 1,003 Total NJ deceased

• 60% Males / 40% Females
  
  

AGE PERCENTAGES OF TOTAL DECEASED
Under 30

• 1%

30 to 49

• 6%

50 to 64

• 16%

65 to 79

• 32%

80 and older

• 45%

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🔷 FEMA FREE TESTING SITES WILL CONTINUE THROUGH MAY
opens 8am until 500 tests are completed

• Monday, Apr. 6: PNC ONLY
• Tuesday, Apr. 7: Bergen Community College ONLY

🔷 USNS COMFORT STATION

• NJ will be utilizing some of the space on the Naval Ship in New York Harbor
• See Monday, Mar. 30 for further information

🔷 FEMA FIELD HOSPITALS FOR GENERALIZED PATIENTS

• New Jersey National Guard Soldiers and Airmen are setting up the second today at the NJ Expo Center in Edison 
• Alternate sites opening include 26,000 "spaces" in hotels, dorms, etc
  
  

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🔺 NJ LAW ENFORCEMENT CRACKDOWN: ZERO TOLERANCE

LAST NIGHT:
🔷 NEWARK POLICE:

• issued 26 summonses; 4 businesses closed
  
  

🔷 KEARNY POLICE:

• Car Burglary Suspect Pulling on Door Handles / During arrest reportedly coughed on police saying he was positive
  Marco Costa, 28, of Harrison charged:
  • terroristic threats during an emergency (2nd degree)
  • 3 counts of throwing bodily fluid at a law enforcement officer (4th degree)
  • 5 counts of attempted burglary (3rd degree)
  • possession of a hypodermic syringe (disorderly offense)
    
    

🔷 HAMILTON POLICE: 

• Driver crashed into house; taken to hospital, reportedly became hostile, spitting on St. Francis healthcare staff, security guards. and police while claiming he's positive and affiliated with a positive person from Bronx, who died
  Dennis Steward, 52, of Valley Stream, NY charged with: (From Saturday)
  • terroristic threats during an emergency (2nd degree)
  • throwing bodily fluid at an officer (4th degree)
  • DWI
    
    

🔷 RUMSON POLICE:

• That Lawn Party Guy: reportedly yelled “Welcome to Nazi Germany" and cursed at officers responding
  Ryan Sheftel, 46 of Rumson charged: (from Saturday)
  • disorderly conduct
  • violating Rumson disturbing the peace ordinance
    
    

🔷 WOOLWICH TOWNSHIP POLICE

• Domestic Violence Suspect arrested, reportedly spat at officers while being fingerprinted, and breathed on officer stating he was positive and "hoped officers catch it"
  Male, 32, of Woolwich, charged:
  • terroristic threats during an emergency (2nd degree)
  • endangering (3rd degree)
  • throwing bodily fluid at an officer (4th degree)
  • violation of a temporary restraining order (TRO) (disorderly offense),
  • violating the emergency orders
    
    

🔷 NEW BRUNSWICK POLICE

• Naked male arrested early this morning after reportedly breaking into a home, and then trying for another. Armed with a knife, he yelled at police that he was positive
  Terrance Edwards, 34, of New Brunswick charged
  • burglary (2nd degree)
  • possession of a weapon for an unlawful purpose (3rd degree)
  • unlawful possession of a weapon (4th degree)
  • violation of the executive orders

​🔷 MORRISTOWN POLICE

• Female hosted party at her home, with about 10 people
• Anekia Dawkins, 35, of Morristown, charged with: (Saturday night)
  • violating the executive orders

​🔷 HILLSIDE POLICE

• Female hosted party at her home, with about 20 people
  Tyeashia Henderson, 20, of Hillside, charged with:
  • violating the executive orders
    
    

🔷 WEST MILFORD POLICE

• 2 Females, 1 Male - parked in car at Reservoir boat launch
  Steven Nunez, 22, of Clifton, Tiffany Colon, 21, of Clifton, and Valerie Saez, 22, of Passaic - charged with:
  • violating the emergency orders

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💛 #NJThanksYou

• 💛 Shawn and Jeffrey Jones of Pennsauken offering free tutoring at Tailored Tutoring
• 💛 Shout out to Fairfield's Claremont Distillery that shifted their normal craft brewing production to producing Hand Sanitizer . They work with the FBI, and NJ's OEM to get product to First Responders in all NJ counties.
• 💛 Earth Angels for Dementia is providing free meals to health workers and first responders in South Jersey.
  
  

🔷 CORPORATE DONATIONS

• IBEW Union: N95 masks, Tyvek gloves, jackets, and booties

RETIRED LAW ENFORCEMENT AND PUBLIC EMPLOYEES ARE NEEDED TO RETURN TO WORK WITHOUT AFFECTING PENSION STATUS

Apr. 6

Executive Order 115 signed and in effect

🔷 RETIREES
Retirees may return to public employment in any capacity, including full-time, part-time or as SLEOs, provided:

• The retiree has retired before the date of the executive order
• The retiree has completed at least a 30-day separation from their employment, dating from the date of retirement or the date of board approval, whichever is later
• The retiree’s return to employment is necessitated by the COVID-19 pandemic
  
  

🔷 SPECIAL LAW ENFORCEMENT OFFICERS (SLEO)

• The 25% SLEO cap is suspended and a municipality may employ the number of SLEOs as are necessary in the judgement of the law enforcement agency to address public health and safety.
  
  

🔷 NEW HIRES

• Any individual hired by a State or local entity in response to the COVID-19 pandemic may immediately enroll in SHBP.
  
  

Governor Phil Murphy:
"Right now we need all the experienced help we can get whether it be retired law enforcement officers returning to duty or nurses who return to University Hospital or folks who can help staff the labor departments. We need to remove any roadblocks that can keep them from service."

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NJ COVID-19 POSITIVE RESULTS BY AGE 

As of Apr. 6

Age 0 to 4

• 152

Age 5 to 17

• 431

Age 18 to 29

• 5103

Age 30 to 49

• 14,283

Age 50 to 64

• 12,628

Age 65 to 79

• 5,645

Age 80 and older

• 2,601

The population stats are from 2000 Census. The NJ Department of Health does not report the same age group breakdown category as the US Census. 

IMAGE: Carolyne Volpe Curley

IMAGE: Carolyne Volpe Curley

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SUNDAY, aPr.5
DAY 33

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SATURDAY, aPr. 4
DAY 32

NEW JERSEY INFORMATION UPDATE

Saturday, Apr. 4 - 1pm
Day 32 

from Governor Phil Murphy, asking for a moment of silence:
"We have now lost nearly 100 more of our fellow New Jerseyans to COVID-19 than we did in the September 11th attacks. Let that sink in for a minute. This pandemic is writing one of the greatest tragedies in our state’s history."

NEW JERSEY
🔺 4,372 New Patients
🔺 34,124 Total NJ Patients
​
🔷 45% POSITIVITY RATE

• 75,356 tests performed on symptomatic people
• 34,124 were positive
  
  

🔷 COVID19 HOSPITALIZATION RATE

• 4000 patients have tested positive and are in hospitals
• 1494 of hospitalized Covid19 patients are in Critical Care
• 1263 of hospitalized Covid19 patients are on ventilators (85%)
  
  

🔷 LONG TERM FACILITY

• 148 long term facilities are reporting at least 1 positive patient out of 375 NJ facilities

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🙏🏻 200 Newly Deceased
Including

• Veteran who served for 37 years in Retired Army & Army Reserves, awarded Bronze Medal for Iraq service, awarded NJ Distinguished Service Medal with Oak Leaf Cluster: Colonel Samuel Fuoco of Eatontown
• Patient Transport Worker for 27 years at Holy Name Medical Center, Jesus Villaluz
  "His coworkers remembered the time he won a 50-50 raffle, and instead of keeping it for himself, he shared it with his colleagues. We mourn his passing."
• Founder of Puffin Foundation and Abraham Lincoln Brigade Archives: Perry Rosenstein
• Newark Police Officer who served department for 25 years: Tolbert A. Furr

🔷 9 of newly deceased from Long term facility
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🙏🏻 NJ Total: 846 deceased

• 61% Males / 39% Females
• Underlying Condition
  • ​300 of deceased

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AGES OF TOTAL DECEASED
Under 30

• 6

30 to 49

• 47

50 to 64

• 136

65 to 79

• 268

80 and older

• 389

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🔷 FEMA FREE TESTING SITES
opens 8am until 500 tests are completed

• Sunday, Arp. 5: Bergen Community College ONLY

🔷 FULL LIST OF NJ TESTING SITES
Covid19.NJ.gov/Locations

• Complete the symptom checker first:
  Self.Covid19.nj.gov

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🔷 PPE

• Governor Murphy spoke with Vice President Pence this morning and requested 1,650 ventilators
• NJ State Police are inventorying all donations.

​Everyone can donate here: Covid19.nj.gov/ppedonations 

🔷 CDC: THOSE WITH NO SYMPTOMS TRANSMIT THE VIRUS

• Studies have demonstrated that Individuals with no symptoms (Asymptomatic) of Covid19 are transmitting virus to others
• CDC recommends all wear Cloth Face Covering in public 
  
  

🔷 WEAR CLOTH FACE COVERING WHEN MAKING AN ESSENTIAL TRIP
NJ Health Commissioner Judith Persichilli:
"When you wear a mask, you a protecting others; and when others wear a mask, they are protecting you."

• Cloth Face Coverings can be made from anything that covers the Mouth and Nose like Scarves and Bandanas
• This directive does not replace Social Distancing guidelines which by far are our best protective measure
• Healthcare workers use the PPE Surgical Masks and NJ95 respirator masks

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🔷 LONGTERM CARE FAMILY NOTIFICATION ENFORCEMENT
NJ Health Commissioner Judith Persichilli 
"Family members have expressed a growing concern about the lack of communication in some facilities when there is a resident who is confirmed with Covid19. Families are frustrated that they believe they cannot get someone on the phone at these facilities and they want to know if there is an outbreak in the facility"

• March 6, NJ DOH contacted all residential health care facilities / longterm care facilities reminding them of their legal responsibility once there is a Covid19 person (staff or resident) to have a clear outbreak response plan including notification of Staff, Residents, Family, Visitors
• Today, all facilities will again receive specific guidance on how to communicate notifications:
  • In person and in writing:
    • Staff and Residents
  • Phone or Email to be followed up in writing in 3 days:
    • Family members
• Department of Health will publish on Monday the list of all long term facilities with Covid19 persons if All are not complying with the directives by then
  
  

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🔺 NJ LAW ENFORCEMENT CRACKDOWN: ZERO TOLERANCE

• Fines: Up to $10,000
• Prison: Up to 18 months in jail, after emergency passes

Reported by New Jersey State Police Patrick Callaghan:
SINCE LAST NIGHT
🔷 NY PPE HOARDING TRANSFERRED TO NJ

• Earlier this week the FBI broke up a Brooklyn PPE hoarding operation and recovered almost a million pieces of PPE
• Baruch Feldheim, 43, was investigated after charging a doctor $12,000 (700% markup) for supplies he purchased.
• Some recovered PPE is now redistributed to New Jersey:
  • 70,000 N95 masks
  • 5,000 gloves
• Thank you to U.S. Attorney Craig Carpenito and FBI Special Agent-in-Charge Greg Ehrie

🔷 Raritan Police

• Adult Playing Basketball with 6 Juveniles
• Adult received citation

🔷 Freehold Police

• Domestic Violence Arrest
• Subject claimed he was positive and spit on officers during processing

🔷 Newark Police

• 122 Summonses issued,

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🔺 NJ TEMPORARY / SEASONAL RENTALS PROHIBITED
Beach communities have reported growing concern over Bergen/Essex/Hudson/Passaic/Union residents attempting to relocate down the shore.
Governor Phil Murphy
"This is not how social distancing works. No one should be leaving their primary residences, especially for the shore communities. I am giving municipalities and counties the ability to prohibit all rentals to transient guests or seasonal tenants for the duration of this emergency, including at hotels and motels. Social distancing does not work by relocating to the Shore. Many of our shore communities lack the health care infrastructure to accommodate an influx of part-time residents. New Jerseyans should stay at their primary place of residence for the duration of this emergency."

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🔺 NO EVICTIONS OR FORECLOSURES / NO UTILITY SHUT OFFS

🔺 UTILITIES
Our good Friend and Commissioner Joseph Fiordaliso is on your side.

• Since 3/31 all utility companies agreed to continue service for duration
• Report violations: 800-624-0241 or online here
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🔺 EVICTIONS
New Jersey Department of Community Affairs
No tenant or homeowner can be removed from their homes during this crisis.
This includes:

• House building Single and Multi-family Houses
• Hotel Apartment Buildings and Tenements
• Trolleybus Mobile Homes or Parks
• Report violations: Covid19.NJ.gov/Violation
  
  

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🔷 CORPORATE DONATIONS

• UberEats donating 14,000 meals to feed front-line workers at four NJ hospitals across the state. Value: $350,000
  
  

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🔷 UPCOMING RELIGIOUS DATES

• Remote only; don't gather
  
• Governor Murphy spoke with Cardinal Joseph Tobin who reminded all to stay home 

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🔷 #NJThanksYou

• Gwen Love, Executive Director of LunchBreak NJ
  "She is keeping the doors open there to continue distributing meals and serving the needs of those across Monmouth County who need a helping hand, especially at this time."
  
• Jim Hofmann , Science and Technology Educator at Newton High School. Jim is using both his personal 3D printer, and the two at Newton High School, to produce protective face shields for the doctors and nurses at University Hospital in Newark where his son Justin is a resident

NJ HEALTHCARE WORKER VOLUNTEERS TRAINED TODAY AT FEMA FIELD HOSPITAL MEADOWLANDS / OPENS MONDAY 

Apr. 4

🔺 NJ HEALTHCARE VOLUNTEERS NEEDED
Currently 7,539 have enlisted

• Retired Doctors, Nurses, EMTS
• Medical and Nursing Students
• Former members of Medical Corps
• Sign up here: Covid19.NJ.gov/volunteer

Governor Phil Murphy
"Grateful to everyone working day and night on the front lines."

IMAGE: Governor's Office

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FRIDAY, aPr. 3
DAY 31

NEW JERSEY INFORMATION UPDATE

Friday, Apr. 3 - 1pm
Day 31

from Governor Phil Murphy
"One of those we have lost, was James Brown, the principal of the Grover Cleveland Middle School in Caldwell. And the accolades being posted in his memory from the members of his community tell just how deeply respected and loved he was. He leaves behind his wife, Sherry, his three children, and an entire school community who loved him dearly. And James was only 48 years old."

🔷 NJ FLAGS ORDERED TO HALF-STAFF
from Governor Phil Murphy
"I know that there is nothing we can say to truly dull the pain that the Brown family and every family who has lost a loved one to Covid19 is feeling right now. But we can make them know that we are thinking about them through our actions. And so to that end I'm signing an executive order today, directing that all flags across New Jersey be lowered to half-staff, effective immediately and indefinitely, to honor those we have lost - and those that we will lose. And we will lose more sadly as a result of this pandemic.
We've been struggling with how we can both speak about the 'James Browns' by name, and not speak about all overnight '113' by name and at the same time find someway to acknowledge the totality of this loss.
This is one of the greatest tragedies to ever hit our state, and our nation indeed and we must have a constant and visible memorial of the tremendous personal toll Covid-19 is having on our communities. And since families at this time cannot even hold funerals for their lost loved ones, this is a way, a small way, but I think an important way, to ensure that their loss is not forgotten." 

NEW JERSEY
🔺4,372 New Patients
🔺29,895 Total NJ Patients

🔷 42% POSITIVITY RATE

• 64,827 tests performed on symptomatic people
• 27,219 were positive
  
  

🔷 COVID19 HOSPITALIZATION RATE

• 3,016 patients have tested positive and are in hospitals
• this is 12% of all NJ Patients hospitalized
• 1227 of hospitalized Covid19 patients are on ventilators (that = 41%)

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🙏🏻 113 Newly Deceased
Including

• Principal, Grover Cleveland Middle School, James Brown, 48
  
• “Tonight Show” Jazz legend, who toured with Benny Goodman: Bucky Pizzarelli , age 94, of Saddle River
  
  

🔷 3 of newly deceased from Long term facility 

🙏🏻 NJ Total: 646 deceased

• ▪️59% Males / 41% Females
  
• Underlying Condition
  
  • 34% of deceased

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🔺 NJ HEALTHCARE VOLUNTEERS NEEDED
Currently 7,539 have enlisted

• Retired Doctors, Nurses, EMTS
• Medical and Nursing Students
• Former members of Medical Corps
• Sign up here: Covid19.NJ.gov/volunteer 

🔷 FEMA FREE TESTING SITES
opens 8am until 500 tests are completed

• Saturday, Apr. 4 - PNC Homdel - FIRST RESPONDERS / HEALTH CARE ONLY

🔷 FULL LIST OF NJ TESTING SITES
Covid19.NJ.gov/Locations

• Complete the symptom checker first:
  Self.Covid19.nj.gov

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🔷 NJ UNEMPLOYMENT - LARGE DELAYS
Gov. Murphy
"Please remember that the other person on the phone is there to help you, and as anxious as you are about the whole situation"

• NJ Processed 33,000 claims yesterday
• 362,000 NJ residents have filed for unemployment over the past 2 weeks
• All claims will be taken care of, but there are many delays processing

🔷 NJ JOBS PORTAL: Jobs.Covid19.NJ.gov

• 44,000+ Jobs available from 540 Employers
• Now has Industry / Geography search function
• 410,000 unique users / visited 1 Million times

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🔺 NJ LAW ENFORCEMENT CRACKDOWN: ZERO TOLERANCE

• Fines: Up to $10,000
• Prison: Up to 18 months in jail

Reported by New Jersey State Police Patrick Callaghan:
There have been a total of 79 Stay at Home indictable offenses

LAST NIGHT:

Blairstown Police:

• Pub Owner has received her 2nd citation since staying open on Mar. 22

Independence Police:

• Domestic Violence suspect claimed she was positive during arrest. She was charged with assault and creating a false public alarm

Newark Police

• issued 228 summonses and closed 9 businesses

Lakewood Police:

• Retail clothing store remaining open was cited
• Individual selling alcohol out of a Uhaul truck was cited

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🔷 CORPORATE DONATIONS

• Tito's Handmade Vodka (Austin TX) sending:
  • 432 gallons of handsanitizer / 3000 masks / 2000 gloves
    
• UBS
  
  • 10,000 N95 Masks (in addition to their past donations during this time)

Everyone can donate here: Covid19.nj.gov/ppedonations 

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🔷 UPCOMING RELIGIOUS DATES

• Remote only; don't gather

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🔷 #NJThanksYou

• "Shout-out to Victoria Chmielewski, a nurse at New Bridge Medical Center who is with her team on the hospital’s designated Covid19 floor
• Shout-out to Lakewood resident and business leader Sam Stein. His company, Complete Care, operates nursing homes across New Jersey. He has donated 15 ventilators that he had in reserve to Jersey Shore University Medical Center
  
• Shout-out to the men and women of International Longshoremen's Association who have been on-the-job at our ports throughout this emergency. So much what we need, whether it be medical supplies or groceries, wouldn’t get to us if it wasn’t for them

​_______________________________

🔷 Governor's Conversations:

• Conversation with Dr. Fauci ("from Brooklyn, but married to a woman from Livingston, as he reminded me") to discuss best practice policies, matching up almost identical to NJ's plan.
• Conversations with NJ's Jared Kushner and Kelly Ann Conway

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THURSDAY, aPr. 2
DAY 30

NEW JERSEY INFORMATION UPDATE

Thursday, Apr. 2 - 1pm
Day 30

from Governor Phil Murphy
"Please God, stay at home. And even when you are home, keep your distance from your family members."

NEW JERSEY
🔺3,489 New Patients
🔺25,590 Total NJ Patients

🔷 41% POSITIVITY RATE

• 56,915 tests performed on symptomatic people
• 23,395 were positive
  
  

🔷 29% LONG TERM CARE FACILITIES HAVE PATIENT

• 110 facilities are reporting at least 1 positive patient out of 375 NJ facilities
  
  

🔷 HOSPITALIZATION RATE vs ISOLATING (recovering)

• Still not available because every single discharge data has to be checked and then rechecked
• Still working on this information

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🙏🏻 182 Newly Deceased
Including

• Hudson County Sheriff’s Officer Bernard Waddell who served for 28 years
  
  
• Night Shift EKG Technician at Newark's University Hospital, Kim King-Smith
  Family says her smile was “more infectious than the virus that took her life.”
  
  
• Grammy-winning songwriter, Fountains of Wayne band co-founder Adam Schlesinger, 52, of Montclair

17 of newly deceased from Long term facility

🙏🏻 Total: 537 NJ Deceased

• 59% Males / 41% Females
• 47% over age 80
• Underlying Condition
  • 35% of deceased
• Long term facilities (76 patients)
  • 14% of deceased

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🔺PPE

• Public asked to donate: Covid19.NJ.gov/donations

🔷 FEMA FREE TESTING SITES
opens 8am until 500 tests are completed

• Friday, Apr. 3 - Bergen County College ONLY

 
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🔷 MEADOWLANDS EXPOSITION CENTER FEMA FIELD HOSPITAL

• Murphy toured today / Videos Attached in Tweet
• 250 Beds only
• Philadelphia District U.S. Army Corps of Engineers have been preparing the scene working about 10 to 14 hours a day, all week under the direction of NJ Incident Management Team Commander Marc Pellegrino
• Opening very soon
• Will host general, non-Covid19 patients at this time
• "Cascading"
  • Field Hospital will free up critical care beds in North Jersey hospitals which currently have overcrowded ICUs and will be staffed by medical volunteers
• NJ National Guard:
  • 1st Lt. Matt Finlay with JTF-57 talks about the set up of a Federal Medical Station at the Meadowlands Exposition Center. JTF-57 is supporting state and local officials w/ the COVID-19 relief effort. 
    
    

🔷 NEXT FEMA FIELD HOSPITALS - Each 250 beds

• Edison: 1) NJ Convention and 2) Expo Center
• Atlantic City: Convention Center

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🔺 LAW ENFORCEMENT CRACKDOWN: ZERO TOLERANCE
Anyone who "acts stupidly and puts others in danger or makes them fear for their health:

• Fines: Up to $10,000
• Prison: Up to 18 months in jail after emergency ends

🔷 Lakewood Police

• Funeral had 65 people
  • 15 charged with Order violations
    
    

🔷 Newark Police

• 130 separate violations
• closed 4 businesses

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🔷 Morristown Police

• Party Host charged with Order violations
• Tow Yard Dispute: Subject threatened to spit on door handles

🔷 Edison Police

• CDS arrest: subject coughed on officer; stated they were positive
  
  

🔷 Morris County

• Trooper arrest: Driver drooled and spit on officer

 
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🔷 NJ EDUCATION ASSOCIATION: DAILY NJTV LEARNING LIVESTREAM STARTS MONDAY

• 200 NJ teachers have volunteered to teach 1 hour long classes livestreamed on NJTVonline.org through May and if needed through mid-June.
  
  

🔷 CLASSES FOR GRADE 3 TO 6

• 9am: Grade 3
• 10am: Grade 4
• 11am: Grade 5
• 12pm: Grade 6
  
  

🔷 SUBJECTS

• English language arts
• Math
• Science
• Social Studies
• Art
• Music
• Physical Education
• The NJDOE reviews and selects the teachers.

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🔷 EMERGENCY CHILDCARE AND SUBSIDY
ChildcareNJ.gov 
As of April 1, Childcare is available in NJ to only those centers that exclusively serve the children of essential workers; all others have been closed.

• Essential Workers Eligible: Childcarenj.gov/Emergency
• Those remaining open must abide by new Department of Children and Families health and safety guidelines
• Further guidance: Childcarenj.gov/Resources/Coronavirus

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🔷 NJ UNEMPLOYMENT

• 362,000 residents have filed for unemployment over the past 2 weeks
• All claims will be taken care of, but there are many delays with processing
  
  

🔷 NJ JOBS PORTAL
Jobs.Covid19.NJ.gov 

• 44,000+ Jobs available

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🔷 CORPORATE DONATIONS
Horizon Blue Cross Blue Shield:

• 500,000 N95 masks, and 81,000 face shields worth $2.3 million
• $100,000 donation to the Community Food Bank of NJ
• $60,000 donation to Jewish Family Services (Atlantic, Cape May)

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new jersey testing sites​

🔷 FULL LIST OF NJ TESTING SITES
Covid19.NJ.gov/Locations

• Complete the symptom checker first:
  Self.Covid19.nj.gov

TESTING SITES FOR ALL NJ RESIDENTS

🔷 BERGEN COMMUNITY COLLEGE - FREE FEMA SITE

• 400 Paramus Road, Lots B & C, Paramus
  Opens 8am until 500 tests are completed
  Operating every other day with PNC Art Center
  
  

🔷 PNC BANK ARTS CENTER - FREE FEMA SITE

• 116 Garden State Pkwy, Holmdel
  Opens 8am until 500 tests are completed
  Operating every other day with Bergen Community College
  Saturdays: First Responders / Health Care workers only
  
  

COUNTY RESIDENTS ONLY

🔷 BERGEN

• New Bridge Medical Center
  230 East Ridgewood Avenue, Paramus
  Bergen County First Responders / Health Care workers only
  By appointment only
  
  

🔷 BURLINGTON

• Emergency Services Training Center
  53 Academy Drive, Westampton
  Burlington County residents only
  By appointment only
  
  

🔷 CAMDEN

• Cooper's Poynt Park
  801 Delaware Ave, Camden
  Camden County residents only
  Requires a Doctor's registration / prescription
  By appointment only: 856-968-7100
  
  

🔷 ESSEX

• Weequahic Park
  Elizabeth Ave &, Meeker Ave, Newark
  Essex County residents only
  
  

🔷 HUDSON

• Hudson Regional Hospital
  55 Meadowlands Pkwy, Secaucus
  Hudson County residents only
  By appointment only
  
  

🔷 MERCER

• Quakerbridge Mall
  3320 Brunswick Pike, Lawrenceville
  Mercer County residents only
  Requires a Doctor's registration / prescription
  By appointment only
  
  

🔷 MIDDLESEX

• NJ MVC Kilmer Inspection Center
  33 Kilmer Road, Edison
  Middlesex County residents only
  By appointment only
  
  

🔷 MORRIS - FREE

• County College of Morris
  Dover Chester Road, Parking Lot 1, Randolph
  Morris County residents only
  Requires a Doctor's prescription
  By appointment only
  By car only

​🔷 OCEAN

• Ocean County College
  1 College Drive, Toms River
  Ocean County residents only
  Requires a Doctor's registration / prescription
  By appointment only
  
  

🔷 PASSAIC

• William Paterson University
  300 Pompton Road, Wayne
  Opens 9am
  Passaic County residents only
  
  

🔷 UNION

• Kean University
  1000 Morris Ave, Union
  Union County residents only AND NJ First Responders / Health Care workers
  Requires a Doctor's registration / prescription
  By appointment only
  By car only
  
  

MUNICIPAL RESIDENTS ONLY

🔷 JERSEY CITY - Drive Up

• Jersey City DPW - 575 Route 440, Jersey City
  Jersey City residents only
  By appointment only: 201-547-5535
  
  

🔷 JERSEY CITY - Walk Up

• Jersey City Fire Department - 465 Marin Blvd, Jersey City
  Jersey City residents only
  By appointment only: 201-547-5535

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WEDNESDAY, APR. 1
DAY 29

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

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TUESDAY, MAR. 31
DAY 28

NEW JERSEY INFORMATION UPDATE

Tuesday, Mar. 31 - 1pm
Day 28

Greg Butler, on death of Ben Luderer, Baseball Coach at Cliffside Park
🙏🏻 "He was a healthy, strong, athletic, 30-year-old head coach.”
Luderer reportedly attempted to get tested at a hospital on Friday, but was turned away. He died at home Sunday night.

from Governor Phil Murphy
"This isn’t about You. It’s about Us.
I know this isn’t fun, but now is the time to be Selfless, not Selfish.
We all have to pull together. I cannot be any clearer in my call:
Stay at Home, before this hits home."

NEW JERSEY
🔺 2,196 New Patients

• an additional psychiatric hospital (state total now 2) has 1 positive resident

🔺Total: 18,696 NJ Patients

🙏🏻 69 Newly Deceased
Including

• Passaic Firefighter and EMT Israel Tolentino, Jr., age 33
• Head Baseball Coach at Cliffside Park, age 30, Ben Luderer

🙏🏻 Total: 267 NJ deceased

• 55% Males / 45% Females
• Ages
  • 3: under age 30
  • 12: age 30 to 49
  • 46: age 50 to 64
  • 80: age 65 to 79
  • 126: over age 80
• Underlying Condition
  • 42% of deceased
• Long term facilities
  • 52 of deceased

🔷 39% POSITIVITY RATE

• 44,330 tests
• 17,253 were positive

🔺 NEW LONG TERM FACILITY REGULATIONS
🔷 LONG TERM FACILITY UNIVERSAL MASKING REQUIREMENTS

• Now that the state has a sufficient supply of masks available for long term care facilities:
  • All staff and anyone entering facility must be masked at all times
  • All residents who are exhibiting symptoms must be masked at all times that Staff is present

🔷 LONG TERM FACILITY HOUSING DIVISIONS
These divisions may take place in separate Floors, Units or Wings:

• All residents exhibiting symptoms must be housed in one division section
• All residents who are non-symptomatic must be housed in a different division section
• These divisions will mean relocating the residents to their appropriate section
• Any resident who returns from the hospital, and any new resident will need to be placed in the appropriate section
• Staff workers need to be assigned to one specific unit to avoid spreading the virus

🔷 22% LONG TERM CARE FACILITIES HAVE PATIENT

• 81 facilities are reporting at least 1 positive patient out of 375 NJ facilities
  
  

🔺PPE FEMA DELIVERIES TO NJ STATE POLICE
Last night 260,000 total equipment arrived in NJ

• Current TOTAL:
  • 280,466 N-95 masks
  • 399,440 surgical masks
  • 150,665 gloves
  • 50,778 gowns
  • 74,052 face shields

🔺 SYMPTOM CHECKER

• Self.Covid19.NJ.gov

🔷 FEMA FREE TESTING SITES
opens 8am until 500 tests are completed

• Wednesday, Apr. 1 - PNC in Holmdel ONLY

🔷 ADDITIONAL COUNTY TESTING SITES - APPOINTMENT AND SYMPTOMATIC ONLY
CAMDEN

• Site: Cooper’s Poynt Park, in Camden
• Residents only, 12pm to 4pm weekdays

MIDDLESEX

• DMV Inspection Center, in Edison
• Residents only, 10am to 2pm, Mon, Wed, Fri
• Appointment: Middlesexcountynj.gov/COVID19testing / 732-745-3100

OCEAN

• Site: Ocean County College, in Toms River
• Residents only, appointment only, weekdays
• Appointment: http://ochd.org 
  
  

🔷 ABBOTT LABS 5-MINUTE MOLECULAR TESTING MACHINES

• NJ has been picked as a state which will be utilizing Abbott's new testing units
• FDA just gave emergency authorization for its use
• Will be utilized in Bergen County
• No further information yet
  
  

🔷 LAW ENFORCEMENT
POSITIVE:

• 383 Law Enforcement Covid19 patients

SELF-QUARANTINED AFTER EXPOSURE:

• 3,081 are home, off duty

OFF-DUTY FOR ILLNESS / INJURY

• 618 out for other reasons

🔺 LAW ENFORCEMENT CRACKDOWN: ZERO TOLERANCE
NEWARK POLICE - just last night:

• 21 Stay Home Order violation incidents
• 161 summonses
• 15 businesses closed
• Every single person at the gatherings received a citation

🔷 PHARMACY COVID19 DRUGS HOARDING CRACKDOWN

• NJ is investigating all physicians and pharmacists believed to be hoarding or inappropriately prescribing to their friends and family specific medications
• Some drugs specifically have potential to treat the virus and NJ is attempting to protect that supply for residents

🔷 STATE AND MUNICIPAL WATER COMPANIES

• As of today, 100% compliance from all water companies halting all service shut-offs for the duration
  
  

🔷 NJ EMPLOYEES UNEMPLOYMENT INSURANCE

• Those who receive unemployment benefits will be receiving an additional $600 per week through July 31
• For those already receiving the benefit, the additional payment will begin next week

🔷 NJ BUSINESS EMPLOYERS FEDERAL PAYROLL TAX CREDIT

• NJ Employers are urged to keep all employees on payroll for the duration of crisis
• NJ Employers are eligible to receive a Dollar-for-Dollar federal payroll tax credit against the costs they incur by keeping workers on their payroll.

🔷 NJ EMPLOYEES UNEMPLOYMENT INSURANCE

• Those who receive unemployment benefits will be receiving an additional $600 per week through July 31
• For those already receiving the benefit, the additional payment will begin next week

🔷 COVID19 CONGRESSIONAL WORK CONTINUES

• Gov. Murphy is calling for increased assistance for workers, small businesses and flexible aid for states
• Murphy believes states that are hardest hit should receive more assistance than states less impacted from virus
• He is calling for the Salt Deduction Cap to be undone in order to help middle class homeowners
  
  

🔷 MORTGAGE RELIEF: CALL YOUR LENDER
Full list of those who have agreed to the Mortgage Forbearance, with no penalties is listed online here
If listed servicer is not cooperative file a complaint with the Department of Banking and Insurance here: http://state.nj.us/dobi/consumer.htm 
or : 609-292-7272 9am to 5pm weekdays

🔷 CORPORATE DONATIONS
▪️ Johnson and Johnson: 10,000 goggles and financial contribution and continuing to work on vaccine

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MONDAY, MAR. 30
DAY 27

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NEW JERSEY INFORMATION UPDATE

Monday, Mar. 30, 2pm
Day 27

Governor Phil Murphy
"The Stay at Home Order remains firmly in effect. Unless you are absolutely needed to go out or unless your job is critical to our response, please, please, please Stay Home. The absolute number one weapon at our disposal is STAYING AT HOME. Period."

🔺 STAY AT HOME / THE VIRUS REMAINS:

• 3 hours in the air
• 4 hours on copper
• 24 hours on cardboard
• 2 to 3 days on plastic and stainless steel

NEW JERSEY
🔺 3,347 New Patients

• including 1 staff member and 1 patient from NJ psychiatric facility

🔺Total: 16,636 NJ Patients

🙏🏻 37 Newly Deceased
Newly deceased statistics: 

• 4 from a long term facility

🙏🏻 Total: 198 NJ deceased

• 34 total from a long term facility
  
  

🔷 38% POSITIVITY RATE

• 40,806 tests
• 15,582 were positive
  
  

🔷 20% LONG TERM CARE FACILITIES HAVE PATIENT

• 73 facilities are reporting at least 1 positive patient out of 375 NJ facilities
  
  

🔷 CHIME MODEL USED TO DETERMINE HOSPITAL CAPACITY DATE
“Covid-19 Hospital Impact Model for Epidemics”

• NJ is using the CHIME model to determine the date hospitals will be at their capacity
• It is based on patient Beds available, Ventilators available, and current patient hospitalization needs 
  
  

🔺PATIENT COUNT DOUBLING RATE

• Currently, every 6 days
  
  

🔺PATIENT HOSPITALIZATION NEED RATE

• 5% patients need Hospitalization
• 2% patients need Intensive Care
• 1% patients need Ventilator

🔺PROJECTED HOSPITAL SURGE DATE MAY 8
Continuing at the historical scientific rate for average social distancing of 31%

• At this rate, Hospitals will be filled by May 8

In order to mitigate this overflow, patients will be diverted as follows:

• Critical Care
  • to presently functioning primary care hospitals
• General Care
  • to FEMA field hospitals including arenas, recently closed hospitals, dormitories, hotels
    
    

🔺PPE / CO-VENTING PATIENTS
Gov. Murphy:
"I won’t stop fighting for the equipment we need to save every life we can.
We need more ventilators. I will continue to say those four words in every phone call I have with President Trump until we get them."

• White House is shipping an additional 300 ventilators to NJ from national stockpile

CO-VENTING

• FEMA will be training hospital staff to allow two patients at a time to use the same ventilator
• State is looking into turning anesthesia machines into ventilators

The National Stockpile currently holds 16,600 ventilators 

🔺LAW ENFORCEMENT CHARGES:
70+ Citations involving 34 Incidents

• Harrington Park Police: DUI arrest:
  • Suspect stated he was positive, and coughed on officers.
  • Charges: Eluding, DUI, Obstruction
• Lakewood Police: Child Neglect charge:
  • About 45 attended a religious party for a child
  • Charges: Child Neglect, Executive Order Violation
• Bridgeton Police: Gym Class charge:
  • Gym owner charged with Executive Order Violation
• Woodbridge Police Barber Shop charge
  • Barbershop doing business charged with Executive Order Violation
    
    

🔷 FEMA FREE TESTING SITES / NJ FIRST RESPONDER FREE TESTING SITE
Because Healthcare workers are overextended, FEMA testing sites are now open to NJ Residents every other day. They will offer 500 tests at a time, starting at 8am, and continue until tests run out:

• Tuesday, Mar. 31 - Bergen County College ONLY

🔷 NJ FIRST RESPONDER / NJ HEALTHCARE WORKERS

• Kean University, Morris Avenue, Union
  • Weekdays: 9am to 5pm
  • Sats: 9am to 2pm
  • Call: 908-373-5105 / http://ucnj.org​
    
    

🔷 LAW ENFORCEMENT CLARIFICATION:

• TESTING POSITIVE:
  • 288 Law Enforcement Covid19 patients
• SELF-QUARANTINED AFTER EXPOSURE:
  • 2,477 are home, off duty
• OFF-DUTY FOR ILLNESS / INJURY
  • 618 out for other reasons
    
    

🔷 ABC ALLOWING LIQUOR STORE HOME DELIVERY

• Division of Alcoholic Beverage Control permitting NJ Brew Pubs and Breweries to offer home porch deliveries to their customers
  
  

🔷 ESSENTIAL BUSINESS UPDATE

• Car sales may continue online and also allow delivery to a client's home after purchase (or client may pickup, curbside)
• Realtors can show houses to buyers on a 1-on-1 basis or to immediate family
• After the Federal Department of Homeland Security designated them as Essential, Gun Stores are now allowed to be open,  by appointment only.

Full List of DHS Essential Services and Workers can be found here 

🔷 MORTGAGE LENDERS

• PNC bank now included with agreement
• Lending Agencies: Freddy, Fanny, FHA have their own guidance and NJ is working with them for further information

🔷 CORPORATE DONATIONS

• Sherwin Williams - donating an additional 2,500 N95 masks and 1,000 gloves 

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US NAVAL HOSPITAL SHIP "COMFORT" HAS ARRIVED IN NYC

 Monday, Mar. 30
​
Commanding Officer Capt. Patrick Amersbach:
“We are ready and grateful to serve the needs of our nation.”

• USNS Comfort will provide onboard Intensive Care Units and ventilators
• Staffed by 1,200 medical personnel made up of Sailors, Marines and Civilian Mariners
• The fully equipped ship will include general surgeries if needed
• All patient transfers will be coordinated with local hospitals
  
  

#TaskForceNewYorkCity

• USNS Comfort was last in NYC during 9/11 providing medical support for First Responders working on scene
  
  

Vice Commander, U.S. Fleet Forces Command Rear Adm. John Mustin:
“Our message to New Yorkers: now your Navy has returned, and we are with you, committed in this fight.”

• The U.S. Coast Guard Station New York is providing security for the USNS Comfort with a team made up of crews from New York and Cape Cod, MA 

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SUNDAY, MAR. 29
DAY 26

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SATURDAY, MAR. 28
DAY 25

NEW JERSEY INFORMATION UPDATE

Saturday, Mar. 28
1pm

🔺 STAY AT HOME
Governor Phil Murphy
"This is life and death. This is not a game. It is critical that you stay at home unless you absolutely need to go out. Keep your distance from everyone including your family members." 

🔺THE VIRUS REMAINS

• 3 hours in the air
• 4 hours on copper
• 24 hours on cardboard
• 2 to 3 days on plastic and stainless steel

NEW JERSEY
🔺2,289 New Patients

• 160 of those results from mass-testing sites
  
  

🔺Total: 11,124 NJ Patients

• 662 of those results from mass-testing sites
  
  

🙏🏻 Total: 140 NJ deceased in 3 1/2 weeks
🙏🏻 32 Newly Deceased
Newly deceased statistics:

• 20 Males / 12 Females
• ages 30 to 100
• 12 had underlying conditions
• no one in a long term facility

🔷 35% POSITIVITY RATE

• ▪️ 29,822 tests
• ▪️ 10,436 were positive
  
  

🔷 LONG TERM CARE FACILITIES

• 71 facilities are reporting at least 1 positive patient out of 375 NJ facilities
  
  

🔷 FIRST RESPONDERS

• As of today, 700+ police officers have tested positive and are quarantined in all 21 counties
• All officers should respond to a scene with protective equipment
  
  

🔺 URGENT PPE NEEDS CONTINUE
Gov. Murphy has been petitioning the White House continuously for NJ's PPE's needs. Last night, Murphy directly spoke with Pres. Trump and after describing the state's critical PPE shortage, was assured by Trump that a shipment would arrive today.

Items arrived today:

🔷 OVERNIGHT PPE SHIPMENT SENT FROM NATIONAL STOCKPILE
Trump released the following and they were received in NJ by state police this morning:

• 120,000 N95 masks
• 287,000 surgical masks
• 62,000+ face shields
• 51,000+ surgical gloves
• 3,500+ coveralls
• 368,000+ pairs of gloves
• 1,000 medical beds
• 200 ventilators
  
  

🔷 DAILY HOSPITAL NEEDS REPORTING REQUIRED

• All Hospitals and Health care offices are ordered to now report to NJ DOH daily their PPE needs and bed count availability to ensure they are provided anything they are lacking
• State is continuing to procure every possible PPE thru donation and purchase`

🔷 SYMPTOM SELF-CHECKER

• All information is anonymous and will also be used to allow the state to know where illness spikes are occurring
• As of yesterday, 129,000 people have used the site

🔷 MEDICAL VOLUNTEERS WANTED FOR HEALTHCARE RESERVE
Please submit your information here if you are willing and able to volunteer as a qualified Health and Mental Health professional

• All volunteers will be notified if needed for deployment
• 2000 have volunteered so far, including many from out of state
  
  

🔺 LAW ENFORCEMENT

• Last night Ewing Township Police broke up a 47-person party, complete with DJ, crammed into a 550 square foot apartment. Party host was charged

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🔷 NJ NATIONAL GUARD

• Pres. Trump signed an order last night allowing Gov. Murphy to use the NJ National Guard "as necessary"

🔷 FEMA TESTING SITES: NOW ALTERNATING DAYS
Healthcare workers are being overextended. Sites will now be every other day and offer 500 tests at a time, opening at 8am until tests run out:

• Sunday, Mar. 29 - Bergen County College ONLY
• Monday, Mar. 29 - PNC Holmdel ONLY

🔷 MORTGAGE RELIEF STARTS APR. 1 / CONTACT LENDER DIRECTLY
Governor Murphy :
"If you receive a grace period of 3 months now it will be added to the backend of your mortgage."

• The major national and state banks have given a 90-Day Grace period
• Lenders will wave any late fees
• 90 day delay will not affect credit reporting
• Moratorium on current Foreclosure/Removals/Evictions continues
• The skipped 3 months will be added at the end of your mortgage
• No other foreclosure proceedings can begin for at least 60 days

🔷 RENTERS: NO EVICTIONS

• No landlord can evict anyone from their home for the duration

🔷 NJ BUSINESS UPDATES PAGE
Information on:

• ▪️ Economic Assistance for Businesses
• ▪️ Business Operations Guidance
• ▪️ Employers Guidance
• ▪️ Individual's Unemployment and Benefit information
• ▪️ 270,000 users so far
• ▪️ over 8,000+ live chat sessions
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🔷 CORPORATE DONATIONS

• ▪️ Apple increased their PPE NJ donations

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FRIDAY, MAR. 27
DAY 24

NEW JERSEY INFORMATION UPDATE

Friday, Mar. 27
2pm

Governor Phil Murphy
"These are not abstract numbers. These are our Family, our Friends, our Neighbors. All of us. We are in this together and we mourn together."

NEW JERSEY
🔺 1982 New Patients

• Total: 8825 NJ Patients
• some new results are from the new FEMA testing sites
  
  

🙏🏻 27 Newly Deceased

• Total: 108 NJ deceased in 3 weeks
  
  

🔷 33% POSITIVITY RATE

• 24,843 tests
• 8,296 were positive
  
  

🔷 LONG TERM CARE FACILITY PATIENTS

• 55 of the long term care facilities in NJ report at least 1 Positive result
  
  

🔷 "RECOVERING" NUMBERS - "PUI"

• At this point it's been too soon to state that someone has recovered. The state refers to all patients as PUI: Persons Under Investigation. At some point it will become obvious that all PUI, who are not deceased, are in fact recovering and will entirely Recover.
  
  

🔺TESTING RESULTS TAKING 1 WEEK

• Both private and state testing facilities are backlogged with testing capability
  
  

🔺 DAYCARE REGISTRATION DEADLINE: TODAY 5pm

• Childcare Centers who wish to remain open must RE-REGISTER with the state affirming that they are ONLY serving First Responders, Healtcare workers and Essential working people
• REGISTER HERE
  
  

🔺 HEALTHCARE / PPE PURCHASE AUTHORIZATION

• $140 million for COVID19 related expenses
• 1 Ventilator costs $20,000
• State Health Director believes NJ needs to purchase a minimum of 2,300 Ventilators
  
  

🔺 BUSINESS PPE REGISTRATION DEADLINE: TODAY 5pm

• All businesses and non-hospital health care facilities in possession of PPE that they're not using for critical health care services
• REPORT HERE   
  
  

🔺 ALL ADULT'S ELECTIVE SURGERIES AND INVASIVE PROCEDURES POSTPONED AS OF 5PM TONIGHT

• There isn't enough PPE for these procedures
  
  

🔷 REMINDER: FEMA TESTING SITES SATURDAYS

• FIRST RESPONDERS / HEALTHCARE WORKERS ONLY
• ONLY symptomatic First Responders and Healthcare providers will be tested on the following days:
• Saturday 3.28 (Bergen and PNC)
• Saturdays Apr. 4 and forward PNC only
• Always show valid credentials.
  
  

🔷 FEMA FIELD HOSPITALS

• Meadowlands Convention Center
  • opens in about a week
  • Patients will be general hospital
• Edison Expo
  • ▪️ opens after Meadowlands completed
  • ▪️ Patients will be COVID19 patients only
    
    

🔷 NJ SNAP SUPPLEMENTAL BENEFIT ASSISTANCE
NJ Assembly Speaker Craig J. Coughlin
🔺“Too many residents in the state of New Jersey go to bed without a meal every night: 1 out of every eight residents to be exact."

• TO APPLY 
• Yesterday, NJ received $70 million in extra NJ SNAP benefits from federal government
• Sunday, 3/29 - SNAP Supplemental Benefit clients will receive extra payments
• April will also include extra payments
• All benefits will load directly on to Families First EBT cards
• Supplemental benefit will be based on family size
  
  

🔷 SNAP Food Assistance

• 340,000 households receive SNAP food assistance
• 205,000 of those receive the additional supplemental assistance
• ALL SNAP clients expiring through May are already extended to continue an extra six months in order to ensure there are no benefit interruptions
• By law, "households that already receive the federal allowable maximum SNAP benefit are not eligible for supplemental payments."
• NJ Human Services Commissioner Carole Johnson
  “We want every individual and family to be able to have the food they need as they comply with the Governor’s directive to stay at home. For many New Jerseyans and their families that means needing more NJ SNAP support, and these benefits are coming on Sunday."
  
  

🔷 MORTGAGE PAYMENTS

• Still in processing of discussions with all banks; announcement should be made tomorrow 
  
  

🔷 LAW ENFORCEMENT

• 12-County Compliance Checks
  • Charges were made yesterday - 26 incidents resulted in 5 charges:
• Creating false public alarm / Criminal Mischief / Obstruction
  
  

🔷 CORPORATE DONATIONS

• Google Ad Grant to get NJ information on search platform
• Ralph Lauren (now offices in Nutley) will be donating
  
  

🔷 RECOMMENDED READING:

• "The Moral Meaning of the Plague"​

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THURSDAY, Mar. 26
Day 23

NEW JERSEY INFORMATION UPDATE

Thur, Mar. 26
2pm

NEW JERSEY
🔺 New Patients 2492

• Total: 6876 NJ Patients
• 436 new results are from the new FEMA testing sites (Bergen / PNC)
  
  

🙏🏻 19 Deceased

• Total: 81 NJ deceased
  in 3 weeks

🔷 32% POSITIVITY RATE

• 19,364 tests
• 6137 were positive in 7 of the labs

🔺 NEW JERSEY DECLARED MAJOR DISASTER AREA BY PRESIDENT TRUMP

🔺PPEs
Murphy has requested Pres. Trump releases from national PPE stockpile:

• 4.5 Million N95 Masks
• 2,500 ventilators
• Masks, Gloves also on list
  
  

🔺BUSINESSES / COLLEGES ORDERED TO INVENTORY ALL SURPLUS PPE AND REPORT TO STATE BY 5PM FRIDAY
Executive Order 109: "any business, non-hospital health care facility, or institution of higher learning in possession of PPE, ventilators, respirators, or anesthesia machines not required for the provision of critical health care services shall undertake an inventory of these supplies."

🔷 FEDERAL FINANCIAL ASSISTANCE

• Federal monies will now supplement all of NJ's COVID19 spending backdating to January 20, 2020.
• This is unrelated to the additional federal support Congress is working on

Governor Murphy:
"With our major disaster declaration approved, New Jersey will now have access to greater essential federal support to help our residents through this emergency. This declaration will allow us to lift remaining bureaucratic barriers to assistance and enhance our statewide response to COVID-19. I am grateful to the Administration and the Federal Emergency Management Agency for their collaboration and coordination in supporting our response and recovery efforts to COVID-19 in New Jersey.”

🔷 US UNEMPLOYMENT: 3.3 MILLION AMERICANS HAVE FILED

• NJ:155,000 workers have filed
• Murphy signed legislation yesterday to expand Temporary Disability Insurance and Family Leave Insurance programs
  
  

🔺 US NOW HIGHEST PATIENT COUNT IN WORLD 
Mar. 26 - 6pm
According to John Hopkins University Coronavirus
Resource Center

🔷 Covid19 Patient Count:

• UNITED STATES: 82,404
• CHINA: 81,782
• ITALY: 80,589
• SPAIN: 56,347
• GERMANY: 43,646

🔷 United States Patient Count:

• NEW YORK: 37,258
• NEW JERSEY: 6,876
• CALIFORNIA: 3,786
• MICHIGAN: 2,877
• WASHINGTON: 2,649
  
  

🔷 SOUTH KOREA

• Gov. Murphy spoke with the S. Korean Ambassador to be better informed on how the country is dealing with the pandemic

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🔷 SCHOOL DISTRICTS
Governor Phil Murphy "I'm aware that some school districts have already begun advising families as to when they anticipate reopening. Let me be perfectly clear on this; that decision rests with yours truly. We will not be prepared to visit the school closures until at least Apr. 17 at the very earliest. The decision to reopen will be based on careful discussion with our public health and safety experts and with our educators in districts and we'll be guided by the facts on the ground."

🔷 FEMA TESTING SITES SATURDAYS: FIRST RESPONDERS / HEALTHCARE WORKERS ONLY
ONLY symptomatic First Responders and Healthcare providers will be tested on the following days:

• Saturday 3.28
  (Bergen and PNC)
• Saturdays Apr. 4 and forward PNC only
• Always show valid credentials.
  
  

🔷 LONG TERM CARE FACILITIES
There is at least 1 Positive patient in 43 of state's 375 facilities

• St. Joseph's Woodbridge - all moved to new facility
  • Positives:
    24 Residents / 5 Staff
  • Deceased: 3 residents
    
    

🔷 JAILS

• Positives: 4 Staff; none in contact with inmates
• no inmates positive
  
  

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🔷 NJ SMALL BUSINESS / NON-PROFIT ORGANIZATION EMERGENCY ASSISTANCE
$75 Million assistance to cover operating expenses for those businesses and non-profit organizations that have been impacted by COVID-19 through reduced revenue, employee shortage, supply chain impact, etc.
Small business means $5 million or less annual revenue and in good tax standing with NJ

• Home-based businesses are not eligible
  
  

ASSISTANCE AVAILABLE NOW:

• $10 million working capital loans and lines of credit 
• NJ Small Business Loans  ​
• Grant Program will provide $1000 to $5,000
• Payment Moratorium/Loan Fee Forgiveness 
• U.S. SBA Assistance Long Term / Low interest Loans

▪️ Unemployment Insurance Info


🔷 NJ ESSENTIAL JOBS PORTAL: POST JOB OR SEEK JOB

• ▪️ 35,000 job openings have been posted by 300 Essential employers since Monday
  
  
• ▪️ Accessed by 230,000 job seekers
  
  
• Essential Employers should submit jobs here 

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​🔷 NJ PANDEMIC RELIEF FUND
DONATIONS: NJPRF.org 

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WEDNESDAY, Mar. 25
Day 22

NEW JERSEY INFORMATION UPDATE

Wed, Mar. 25 - Day 22 -- 2pm

Governor Phil Murphy
"If you see a business operating in violation of the Stay at Home Executive Order, or you are working at one - report them now."
Online: https://covid19.nj.gov/violation 

NEW JERSEY
🔺 New Patients 736 / Total: 4402 NJ Patients
🙏🏻 18 Deceased / Total: 62 NJ deceased in 3 weeks

  
🙏🏻 of the 18 New deceased

• ages 52 to 93
• 11 Males, 7 Females
• 50% had underlying health conditions
• 5 from a long term care facility

🙏🏻 of the Total 62 deceased

• ages 30 to 93 (24% ages 30 to 60)
• 65% Males, 35% Females
• 48% had underlying health conditions
• 16 from a long term care facility

🔷 PSYCHIATRIC HOSPITALS

• 1400 patients in 4 facilities
• 1 Patient positive / 4 Staff positive
  
  

🔷 29% POSITIVITY RATE

• 14,000 tests performed
• 4,000 Positive
• remainder of 10,000 results experiencing upper respiratory symptoms
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🔺 HOSPITAL CAPACITY / FEMA FIELD MEDICAL STATIONS

• 18,433 Acute care beds in state includes 2,000 for ICU Critical
• Goal by next two weeks increase of 1,360 beds through Army Corps intervention
• Meadowlands Convention Center will open first - about 1,000 beds

🔷 DISASTER DECLARATION

• Gov. Murphy and VP Pence spoke and Murphy is hopeful the declaration will happen, which will mean state funding

🔺 PPE NEEDS

• Continues to be an urgent "desperate" need and Gov. Murphy continues to reach out to White House for more equipment.
• Pence asked that NJ re-clarify their needs and that's being done today
• NJ's NJSPolice/ OEM coordinating the collection:
• email: PPEDonations@NJSP.org
• received 550 Million emails so far

🔷 $1.9 MILLION FEDERAL DHS NJ GRANT APPROVED
Federal Dept Health Human Services

• to help 24 NJ health centers acquire Testing / Screening / Medical supplies and increase remote Telehealth patient care
  
  

🔺 WORK FROM HOME MEANS WORK FROM HOME

• Report Business with Failure to Comply: Call: 609-963-6817
• the phone line received so many calls since yesterday that it crashed the system
• Report online: https://covid19.nj.gov/violation 
  
  

🔷 DAYCARE - ONLY OPEN FOR CHILDREN OF FIRST RESPONDERS / HEALTHCARE AND VERY ESSENTIAL WORKERS AFTER APRIL 1

• Every Daycare that wishes to stay open needs to re-certify with the state attesting that they are ONLY going to continue to accept children of First Responder / Healthcare / Essential workers
• All Daycare otherwise closed by Wed., Apr. 1
• New Health and safety guidelines forthcoming
• Senator Joe Vitale worked on this legislation
  
  

🔷 ESSENTIAL

• First Responders / Healthcare and guidance coming on rest of essential list
  

🔷 DIRECT INDIVIDUAL FEDERAL ASSISTANCE IS HOPEFULLY GOING TO PASS

• Direct cash assistance (as of last night $1200 per family and $500 per child) from federal government
• Unemployment benefits extended 13 weeks
• Unemployment to include Gig workers and Self-Employed

Proposed legislation includes;
🔷 $150 BILLION RELIEF FUND 

• To States and Localities experiencing the healthcare crisis
  
  

🔷 $100 BILLION HEALTHCARE RELIEF FUND

• To Hospitals / Healthcare workers needs
  
  

🔷 $45 BILLION FEMA DISASTER RELIEF FUND

• For all FEMA-directed activities within Covid19 affected States
  
  

🔷 $25 BILLION TRANSPORTATION RELIEF FUND

• Public Transit continuation for essential workers
  • NJ Transit included
    
    

🔷 $15.5 BILLION SNAP RELIEF FUND

• Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program foodstamp assistance
  
  

🔷 $3.5 BILLION CHILDCARE DEVELOPMENT BLOCK GRANT

• Ensuring First Responders / Healthcare / Essential workers have access to Childcare

 
🔷 CORPORATE DONATIONS

• ShopRite and Wakefern donated the Mobile Field unit trailers
• Merck - donating 300,000 masks
• Bricklayers and Allied Craftworkers Union - donating masks to Burlington health centers

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​🔷 NJ PANDEMIC RELIEF FUND
DONATIONS: NJPRF.org 

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TUESDAY, Mar. 24
Day 21

NEW JERSEY INFORMATION UPDATE

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🔷 ADDITIONAL ESSENTIAL BUSINESSES
from Governor Phil Murphy
"Effective immediately, the following retail businesses are considered essential and permitted to operate:"

• Mobile phone retail, repair shops
• Bicycle shops, only for service and repair
• Livestock feed stores
  
• Nurseries, garden centers
  
• Farming equipment stores

 Tues, Mar. 24

NEW JERSEY

• NJ:
  Second highest cases in US
• Essex:
  Second highest cases in NJ
  
  

NEW PATIENTS: 846

• TOTAL: 3,675
• 35% age 30 to 49

🙏🏻 NEW Deceased: 17

• TOTAL: 44

🔺 WORK FROM HOME MEANS WORK FROM HOME

• Know of a Business with Failure to Comply?
  Call: 609-963-6817
• Some businesses are deeming all / most of their employees "Essential" to force them to go to work, rather than work remotely
• Some businesses are deeming themselves "Essential" when they are not included in the order.
  
  

Gov. Murphy:
"The Executive Order is not a Polite Suggestion. It is an Order.
No one who can work from home, should be leaving their home for work. We must have one hundred percent compliance. This is about public health, this is about people's lives. It is about your Employees lives, and their Family's lives. It is about Your life."
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🔺 URGENTLY NEEDED PPE SHIPMENTS FROM NATIONAL STOCKPILE
Personal Protective Equipment

• Going to: St. Barnabas, Holy Name, Hackensack UMC, Morrisown Hospitals
• 200,000 N95 masks
• 84,000 Respirators
• other gear
• PSEG donations: 50,000 N95 Masks
• Apple, Glaxxo, Walgreens, PipeFitters Local 24, Sherwood Williams all committing to donations
  
  

🔷 DAYCARE STILL IN PROCESS OF DETERMINATION

• Governor is waiting to be assured that all First Responders, all healthcare workers have daycare
• at that point he may decide to close all other Daycare

🔷 EDUCATION: APRIL STANDARD TESTING LIKELY CANCELLED
Governor Phil Murphy
"with students at home and not in their regular classrooms it is simply not feasible for us to move forward with testing in any meaningful way"

• Federal Waiver expected to be granted shortly
• Will NOT impact graduation for any students
• Number one priority is to keep up with current studies with no other educational concerns
• School is out until further notice

🔷 $900 Million NJ Discretionary Budget Spending Placed into Reserve

🔷 FEDERAL ASSISTANCE PROGRAM
NJ Congressional Delegation hopeful that direct cash infusion to state is imminent towards state's stabilization fund supporting:

• Mass Transit
• Unemployment insurance
• Community Development Block grants
• Hospitals
• Small business

🔷 MUNICIPAL WATER UTILITIES - NO SHUT OFFS
Gov. Murphy
"No New Jerseyan should have to fear for losing their access to water throughout this emergency."

• Private utility providers have already agreed to no shutoffs
• All water providers need to stop shutoffs today or NJ DEP will order them to stop shutoffs by tomorrow

🔷 NJ JOBS PORTAL DAY 2
First state in the US that is doing this

• Visited by 88,000 job seekers
• Open jobs increased to 12,000 from 100 employers
• Jobs.covid19.nj.gov 
  

🔷 FEMA REGION 2 BUILDING NJ FIELD HOSPITALS

• Plans going well for creating four hospitals with 250 beds each
• Lieutenant Colonel David Park directing Army Corps of Engineers, Philadelphia District, they are en route now.
  • NORTH:
    Meadowlands Exposition Center
  • CENTRAL:
    Edison Convention Center
  • SOUTH:
    Atlantic City convention Center
  • urban locations will be set up when needed, and for now in Wall Twp
  • hotels, college dorms still possible
• Staffing hasn't been determined yet but overseen by trauma hospitals and nursing agencies
• Should begin next week
  
  

🔷 REAL ID / MOTOR VEHICLES

• Murphy waiting for approval from Pres. Trump for Real ID time frame to be suspended until it can be done in an orderly fashion

🔷 TESTING

• FEMA sites (Bergen, PNC)
  • Free, Close early after 300+ tests
• Hudson County site
  • Residents only
• PASSAIC COUNTY
  • Opens tomorrow
  • Residents and their first respondents only
  • with doctor's approval
  • at William Paterson University
    
    

🔷 WOODBRIDGE: St. Joseph's Senior Home

• Run by Little Servant Sisters of the Immaculate Conception
• they are the ones who alerted the state that residents need to be placed in a new location
• May be permanently closed after 12 employee illness and some positive patients cases out of 89 residents
  • decision is up to the Sisters
• Monitored since Friday; now in the process of moving all of the patients to a new facility

🔷 HOMELESS POPULATION

• Jersey City housing individuals in motels 
  
  

🔷 MAIL

• Employees don't have protective equipment and mail should be handled briefly, and then hands washed

🔷 LIQUOR STORES

• Open because of addiction

🔷 NJ PANDEMIC RELIEF FUND (501 C3) BEGINS TODAY

• 100% donations to NJ Covid19 support organizations
• Headed by First Lady Tammy Murphy, supported by:
  • Jon Bon Jovi
  • Stephen Colbert
  • Danny DeVito
  • Whoopi Goldberg (local)
  • Carli Lloyd
  • Charlie Puth
  • Bruce Springsteen
  • Jon Stewart

DONATIONS: NJPRF.org 

First Lady Tammy Murphy
“The COVID-19 virus has already had far-reaching societal ramifications that have overwhelmingly and disproportionally impacted low- to-middle-income residents and New Jersey’s small business community. We are committed to the task of identifying the most effective interventions, determining community needs, and raising essential funds and awareness as we battle this challenge.”

​🔷 NJ PANDEMIC RELIEF FUND
DONATIONS: NJPRF.org 

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MONDAY, Mar. 23
Day 20

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SUNDAY, Mar. 22
Day 19

NEW JERSEY INFORMATION UPDATE

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 Sun. Mar. 22 - 3pm
from Governor Phil Murphy press conference

🔺 BLOOD SUPPLY CRITICAL

• The State's blood supply is at dangerously low level and is requesting blood drives be created to address the urgent need.

🔺 CRITICAL NEED FOR PERSONAL PROTECTIVE EQUIPMENT (PPE) FOR HEALTHCARE WORKERS

• Masks
• N95 Respirators
• Medical Gloves
• Medical Gowns

🔷 NJ STATE POLICE OEM TO COORDINATE PPE DONATION EFFORT

🔷 MEDICAL RESERVE CORPS - STANDBY UNIT
In process of organizing a standby unit for on demand staffing

• Retired workers
• School nurses
• Out of state workers
• Medical students 
  
  

🔷 GATHERINGS

• Stay 6 feet away from all others when necessary to be in public and otherwise stay home

🔷 TESTING

• FEMA Free Testing Sites - 350 tests a day, no prescription needed
  8am to 4pm
  (go EARLY - supplies run out and they have limited test ability)
  • Bergen County College
  • PNC Bank Center, Holmded
    
    
• Union County ONLY
  • Residential testing for Union County residents and their first responders begins tomorrow at Kean University
  • Appointment only, through a primary care doctor
    
    

🔷 RACISM

• Disturbing reports of harassment and attacks against Asian Americans
• Gov. Murphy:
  "Racism against our Asian American communities is repugnant, repulsive, and wrong in good times, but it is even more repugnant and repulsive now. Our diversity is one of the core strengths of our state that will get us through this. We are one New Jersey family. "
  
  

🔷 BUSINESS

• StopandShop employees are receiving a 10% pay increase and two additional weeks of paid sick leave
• Cellphone stores are Non-essential and are Closed

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SATURday, Mar. 21
Day 18

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NEW JERSEY STAY AT HOME ORDER

🔺 ALL NON-ESSENTIAL BUSINESSES CLOSED

🔺 ALL GATHERINGS CANCELLED

🔺 ALL BUSINESS REMOTE

🔺 24 HOURS OFF ROADS UNLESS FOR ESSENTIAL NEEDS
Begins 9pm Tonight

🔷 ESSENTIAL BUSINESS STAY OPEN WITH PRIOR RULES IN EFFECT:

• Auto repair and Mechanics (dealerships only for repair services)
• Banks
• Children's supply stores for under age 5
• Convenience stores
• Food banks
• Gas stations
• Grocery / Markets
• Hardware and Home improvement
• Healthcare and Medical Service providers
• Laundry / Dry Cleaners
• Liquor stores
• Mail / Shipping
• Medical supply stores
• Pet supplies
• Pharmacy / marijuana dispensaries
• Printing / Office supply

🔷 OFFICES WORK REMOTELY

• Finance
• Law

🔷 RESTAURANT / BARS

• Take out only or CLOSING

🔷 CONSTRUCTION / MANUFACTURING / TRUCKING 

• Continues but must adhere to previous guidelines

🔷 GATHERINGS

• This includes Weddings and Family gatherings

🔷 EXEMPTIONS TO STAY AT HOME EXECUTIVE ORDER

• Healthcare / Medical Services Provides
• Providers for Low-Income Individuals (Foodbanks, Shelters,)
• Journalists
• Law Enforcement
• Federal Officials

"I just signed an Executive Order directing nearly all residents to STAY AT HOME. ALL gatherings are canceled. ALL non-essential retail businesses must indefinitely close their physical stores to the public effective 9:00 p.m. tonight."

https://covid19.nj.gov/

ALL NJ LIBRARIES CLOSED FOR DURATION

Every library in New Jersey meaning:

• Municipal, County, and State Public Libraries
  
  
• Public and Private College and University Libraries
  ​
• All Computer Labs  

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Friday, Mar. 20
Day 17

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Thursday, Mar. 19
Day 16

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WEDNESDAY, Mar. 18
Day 15

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Wed., Mar. 18
11:45pm

Essex's First Patient was 1 week ago
Revised list


🔷 Essex County: 45 Patients

🔷 Essex County Timeline:

Thur, Mar. 12 (1 Patient)

• 1. Montclair
  Female, 66, Mountainside Hospital

Fri, Mar. 13 (4 Patients)

• 2. Livingston
  74
  
  
• 3. Millburn
  Female, 60s
  
  
• 4. Montclair
  Female, 77, Mountainside Hospital
  
  
• 5. Montclair
  Male, 60, Mountainside Hospital
  
  

Sat, Mar. 14 (2 Patients)

• 6. Bloomfield
  Female, 74
  
  
• 7. Bloomfield
  Male, 77
  
  

▪️ Sun, Mar. 15 (7 Patients)

• 8. Caldwell
  
  
• 9. Maplewood
  Male, 31
  
  
• 10. Newark
  Male, 50s
  
  
• 11. North Caldwell
  Female
  
  
• 12. Nutley
  
  
• 13. Nutley
  
  
• 14. West Orange
  
  

▪️Mon, Mar. 16 (7 Patients)

• 15. Millburn
  Female, 60s
  
  
• 16. Essex County
  
  
• 17. Essex County
  
  
• 18. Essex County
  
  
• 19. Essex County
  
  
• 20. Essex County
  
  
• 21. Essex County
  
  

Tues, Mar. 17 (12 Patients)

• 22. Belleville
  Clara Maas
  
  
• 23. Belleville
  ​Clara Maas
  
  
• 24. Belleville
  
  
• 25. Belleville
  
  
• 26. East Orange
  Female, East Orange General Hospital
  Originally gave false address and case was under investigation
  
  
• 27 Montclair
  Female, 73, Mountainside Hospital
  
  
• 28 Essex County
  
  
• 29 Essex County
  
  
• 30 Essex County
  
  
• 31 Essex County
  
  
• 32 Essex County
  
  
• 33 Essex County
  
  

Wed, Mar. 18 (12 Patients)

• 34. Cedar Grove
  Male, isolating
  
  
• 35. Cedar Grove
  
  
• 36. Cedar Grove
  
  
• 37. Livingston
  
  
• 38. Livingston
  
  
• 39. North Caldwell
  
  
• 40. Verona
  Male, 62
  
  
• 41. West Orange
  
  
• 42.Essex County
  
  
• 43.Essex County
  
  
• 44.Essex County - Deceased 🙏🏻
  Female, 60s - Preexisting conditions
  ​
• 45.Essex County - Deceased 🙏🏻
  Female, 60s - Preexisting conditions

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TUESday, Mar. 17
Day 14

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Wed., Mar. 18
10:40am
​for Tuesday, Mar. 17
Essex's First Patient was 1 week ago
​
🔷 Essex County: 34 Patients

• 11 Essex County
  - "Under Investigation"
• 4 Montclair
• 2 Belleville
• 2 Belleville - "Under Investigation"
• 2 Bloomfield
• 2 Millburn
• 2 Nutley
• 2 West Orange
• 1 Caldwell
• 1 East Orange
• 1 Livingston
• 1 Maplewood
• 1 Newark
• 1 North Caldwell
• 1 Verona

🔷 Essex County Timeline:
Thur, Mar. 12 (1 Patient)

• 1. Montclair
  F, 66, Mountainside Hospital

Fri, Mar. 13 (4 Patients)

• 2. Livingston
  74
  
  
• 3. Millburn
  F, 60s
  
  
• 4. Montclair
  F, 77, Mountainside Hospital 
  ​
• 5. Montclair
  M, 60, Mountainside Hospital
  
  

Sat, Mar. 14 (2 Patients)

• 6. Bloomfield
  F 74
  
  
• 7. Bloomfield
  M 77
  
  

▪️ Sun, Mar. 15 (6 Patients)

• 8. Caldwell
  
  
• 9. Maplewood
  M, 31
  
  
• 10. Newark
  M, 50s
  
  
• 11. North Caldwell
  F
  
  
• 12. Nutley
  
  
• 13. Nutley
  
  
• 14. West Orange
  
  

▪️Mon, Mar. 16 (6 Patients)

• 15. Millburn
  F, 60s
  
  
• 16. West Orange
  
  
• 17. Essex "Under Instigation"
  
  
• 18. Essex "Under Instigation" 
  
  
• 19. Essex "Under Instigation"
  
  
• 20. Essex "Under Instigation"
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• 21. Essex "Under Instigation"
  
  

Tues, Mar. 17( 12 Patients)

• 22. Belleville
  Clara Maas
  
  
• 23. Belleville
  ​Clara Maas
  
  
• 24. Belleville "Under Instigation"
  
  
• 25. Belleville "Under Instigation"
  
  
• 26. East Orange
  East Orange General Hospital
  
  
• 27. Montclair
  F, 73, Mountainside Hospital
  
  
• 28. Essex "Under Instigation"
  
  
• 29. Essex "Under Instigation"
  
  
• 30. Essex "Under Instigation"
  
  
• 31. Essex "Under Instigation"
  
  
• 32. Essex "Under Instigation"
  
  
• 33. Essex "Under Instigation"
  
  

Wed, Mar. 18 (1 Patient)

• 34. Verona
  M, 62

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MONday, Mar. 16
Day 13

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Mon, Mar. 16
2pm

🔺 NEW JERSEY EXECUTIVE ORDER
By order of Governor Phil Murphy 

🔺 180 NATIONAL GUARD WILL BE DEPLOYED THROUGHOUT NEW JERSEY

• Their role will be announced

🔺 ALL SCHOOLS CLOSED NO LATER THAN WEDNESDAY, FOR THE DURATION

• ALL Public / Private / Parochial
  • Pre-K
  • K-12 schools
  • Colleges, and Universities

🔷 DAYCARES REMAIN OPEN

• Preschools are CLOSED
  • Daycares can stay open for now if they want to but that is likely to be reassessed.

🔺 BUSINESSES CLOSED, FOR THE DURATION

• ALL:
  • Casinos (Online gaming continues)
  • Racetracks
  • Theaters
  • Gyms

🔺 BUSINESSES CLOSED DAILY BY 8PM, FOR THE DURATION

• ALL (Non-Essential) Retail, Recreational, Entertainment
  • AND these locations must limit occupancy to less than 50 people
    • ie: 50 people per each store's space
      • Salons
      • Clothing Stores
      • Home Stores
      • Pet Stores

🔺 BUSINESSES THAT MAY BE OPEN AFTER 8PM, FOR THE DURATION
IN ORDER THAT THOSE WHO WORK DURING THE DAY CAN STILL ACCESS THEM: 

• ALL Essential Retail:
  • Grocery
  • Pharmacy
  • Gas Stations
  • Medical Offices

🔺 RESTAURANTS / BARS, FOR THE DURATION

• During daylight houses:
  • Take Out and Delivery ONLY

🔺 #SocialDistancingNow

• No Gathering over 50+

🔺 TRAVEL DISCOURAGED BETWEEN 8PM TO 5AM, FOR THE DURATION
"We want everyone to be home and not out."

• APPLIES TO:
  • All non-essential / non-emergency in New Jersey

🔺 80 New NJ Patients (more information to come)

🔷 MALLS
from Governor's Office
New Jersey malls are staying open because they offer varied services:

• THESE STORES IN THE MALLS ARE CLOSED:
  • ALL Movie theaters, stage theaters, Gyms
    
    
• THESE STORES IN THE MALLS ARE CLOSED AT 8PM:
  • All Non-Essential Retail, Recreational, and Entertainment
    • AND these locations must limit occupancy to less than 50 people
      • ie: 50 people per each store's space
    • Salons
    • Clothing Stores
    • Home Stores
    • Pet Stores
      
      
  • Restaurants / Bars:
    • Take Out and Delivery ONLY before 8pm
      
      
• THESE STORES IN THE MALL MAY STAY OPEN AFTER 8PM IN ORDER THAT THOSE WHO WORK DURING THE DAY CAN STILL ACCESS THEM: 
  • ALL Essential Retail:
    • Grocery
    • Pharmacy
    • Medical Offices 

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Sunday, Mar. 15
Day 12

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Mon. Mar. 16 -
11:45am
​for Sunday, Mar. 15

​Please be aware that because I take a large amount of time confirming all information, updates will only be posted when I am sure that I have been given the full information. Please make sure that you have all notifications turned on for West Essex Now , and Facebook notifications also enabled on your devices.
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My own sources are direct from:

• NJ Department of Health
• NJ Governor's Office
• Municipal Officials

🔷 NEW JERSEY PATIENTS - 115

• 33 - Bergen
• 18 - Essex
• 12 - Hudson
• 12 - Middlesex
• 12 - Monmouth
• 6 - Passaic
• 6 - Union
• 5 - Burlington
• 4 - Morris
• 2 - Camden
• 2 - Ocean
• 1 - Hunterdon
• 1 - Mercer
• 1 - Somerset

🔷 ESSEX PATIENTS - 18

• 8 - "Essex County" and not included below
• 3 - Montclair
• 2 - Bloomfield
• 1 - Caldwell
• 1 - Livingston
• 1 - Newark
• 1 - North Caldwell
• 1 - West Orange

NEW JERSEY NEWS
"Should these new measures not prove effective, there’s nothing off the table”
Bergen County Executive James Tedesco

🔺 #SocialDistancingNow
After Gov. Murphy viewed videos and photographs of crowded restaurants and recreation sites:

• "It's too much business as usual....everyone is responsible to protect not only themselves but others."
  • Stay home
  • or keep 6 feet from others at work and when it's necessary to go out in public
  • Shop / Dine ToGo only or accept porch deliveries
    
    
• My commentary:
  • "Social Distancing or We Become Italy: This is not a practice, not a drill"

🔺 NEW JERSEY / NEW YORK / CONNECTICUT Shared Regulations

• No Gathering over 50+
• Restaurants / Bars ToGo Only
• Closed:
  • Casinos, Gyms, Movie Theaters 

🔷 TEANECK REGULATIONS - For Duration

• Grocery Stores: 1 family member only inside
  
  
• Closed:
  • Daycare centers
  • Hair / Nail Salons
  • Health and Sports Clubs and Martial Arts
  • Self-Quarantine: All 40,000 Residents
    • only leave their homes for food and medicine.

🔷 OTHER NJ MUNICIPAL UPDATES

• Hoboken
  • Curfew in place 10pm to 5am
• Montclair
  • Restaurants / Bars Close 10pm to 5am
• Paterson:
  • Eva's Village Shelter:
    • Take out only for Homeless, twice a day
    • Shelter to remain open for guests 

🔷 NJ WORKERS

• NJ State employees are authorized (not mandated) to work from home

🔷 NJ SCHOOLS

• Closing:
  Today, Governor is expected to announce all NJ schools closed
  
  
• Equal Education:
  First making sure that every school is prepared with meals, technology loaners, hotspots, special assistance tutors for every student 

🔷 NJ UTILITIES - For Duration

• Power:
  All NJ public gas and electric utility companies in NJ have agreed to suspend service shutoffs


• Water:
  All NJ water companies have agreed to suspend shut-offs

🔷 NJ DEPARTMENT OF MOTOR VEHICLES

• Closed: until Mar. 30 and will reassess
• Permits expiring by May 31 are extended for two months:
  • Licenses
  • IDs
  • Registrations
  • Inspections
    
    

🔷 NJ HEALTHCARE SUPPLIES

• So much more is needed:
  • Holy Name Medical Center, Teaneck, is using 700 to 1,000 sets of masks, gowns, face shields and gloves daily 

🔷 NJ COURTS

• Monday and Tuesday in person trials postponed
  
  
• Remote Only:
  • County jails inmates will not be transported to Superior Court
  • Civil and Family Court proceedings
    
    
• No new jury trials
  
  
• Cases that Will Continue:
  • Ongoing jury trials
  • Emergency relief
  • Domestic Violence restraining orders
  • Extreme Risk Protective Orders submitted by local police
  • First Appearance hearings as conducted by Central Judicial Processing
  • Child support hearings involving incarcerated individuals
  • Pretrial detention hearings
  • Juvenile detention hearings
  • Bail determinations for outstanding warrants and failure to appear
  • Civil commitment hearings
  • Supervision and monitoring of people on probation

🔷 NJ / NY AIRPORT UNION WORKERS

• Newark, Kennedy and LaGuardia airports union stating "members have not been properly trained and outfitted to reduce the risk of transmission"
• "You have cabin cleaners who come into contact with blood, vomit, mucus, feces, all types of bodily fluids, and they have no more training today than they did before the outbreak" 

🔷 NEW YORK - 746 Patients / 6 deaths

🔷 NEW YORK CITY Regulations

• Schools closed
• Closed Also: Nightclubs, Concert venues

🔷 PENNSYLVANIA - 69 Patients

🔷 DELAWARE - 7 Patients

🔷 US PATIENTS - 3807 Including Puerto Rico, Guam, Virgin Islands
Including:

• 769 - Washington
• 746 - New York
• 475 - California
• 164 - Massachusetts
• 149 - Florida
• 136 - Colorado
• 115 - New Jersey
• 111 - Georgia
• 103 - Louisiana
• 95 - Illinois

🔷 US Deaths - 69

• 42 - Washington
• 6 - California
• 6 - New York
• 5 - Florida
• 2 - New Jersey
• 2- Louisiana
• 1 - Colorado
• 1 - Georgia
• 1 - Kansas
• 1 - Oregon
• 1 - South Dakota
• 1 - Virginia

🔺 US TESTING UPDATES

• 2000 Labs to be added this week
• Priority Testing:
• Healthcare workers
• First Responders
• Those over age 65
• Those with temperatures above 99.6 degrees

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🔷 US NEWS UPDATES

• Navy: A sailor aboard the U.S.S. Boxer tests positive 

 

• CDC: Recommends no gatherings over 50+ people for the next 8 weeks

 

• Restaurants Closed:
  • New York City
  • Massachusetts
  • Ohio
  • Puerto Rico
  • Washington
    
    
• Bars Closed:
  • Boston
  • California
  • Hoboken
  • New York City
    ​
• Theaters / Gyms Closed:
  • Los Angeles

 

• Self-Quarantine:
  • California - All age 65 and older
  • Teaneck, NJ - All residents

 

• Casinos Closed:
  • MGM, Wynn, Encore (Las Vegas) Closing for duration
  • All Connecticut, New Jersey, New York, Casinos

 
🔷 BUSINESS NEWS UPDATES
STORES

• Hours Lessened
  • ​Walmart 6am to 11pm

​

• ToGo Only
  • Starbucks
    ​
• Closing for duration
  • Abercrombie & Fitch
  • Apple
  • Lush
  • Nike
  • Patagonia
  • Urban Outfitters  

​ ​
🔷 US PEACE CORPS

• All global operations suspended
• All volunteers to evacuate and then return when conditions permit 

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SATURDAY, Mar. 14
Day 11

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Sun, Mar. 15,
1am
for Saturday, Mar. 14:

According to Gov. Murphy today, all presumptive cases in US are now considered by the CDC as Confirmed Positive

🔷 NEW JERSEY - 69 Patients (2 deaths)

• Hoboken: all gyms, theaters, day care centers closed
• Teaneck: 41,000 residents to self-quarantine
• Trenton State of Emergency

🔷 New Jersey Patients by County:

• 25 - Bergen
  (or 31 according to County)
• 10 - Middlesex
• 8 - Monmouth
• 7 - Essex
• 5 - Hudson
• 3 - Burlington
• 3 - Morris
• 2 - Camden
• 2 - Passaic
• 1 - Mercer
• 1 - Ocean
• 1 - Somerset
• 1 - Union

🔷 ESSEX COUNTY CASES:

• Female, 66-year-old, Montclair, at Mountainside Hospital
• Female, 70s, Montclair
• Male, 60s, Montclair
• Female, 60s
• Female, 74, Livingston
• Female, 74, Bloomfield
• Male, 77, Bloomfield

🔷 NEW YORK - 524 Patients (2 deaths)

• 2 deaths: Rockland County and Brooklyn; both had underlying health conditions
• 2 State Assembly members from Brooklyn positive
• Archdiocese of New York cancels public masses

🔷 PENNSYLVANIA - 47 Patients
Bucks, Chester, Delaware and Montgomery Counties ordered to close until further notice:

• Bars
• Recreation centers
• Gyms
• Salons and spas
• Casinos, concert venues, and theaters
• Sporting facilities and golf courses
• Malls

🔷 US PATIENTS - 2,816 people in 49 states, plus DC, and Puerto Rico

🔷 US Patients include:

• 607 - Washington
• 524 - New York
• 348 - California
• 123 - Massachusetts
• 101 - Colorado
• 77 - Louisiana
• 71 - Florida
• 69 - New Jersey
• 66 - Georgia
• 64 - Illinois

🔷 58 US Deaths:

• 40 - Washington
• 5 - California
• 4 - Florida
• 2 - New Jersey
• 2 - New York
• 1- Colorado
• 1- Georgia
• 1- Louisiana
• 1- South Dakota
• 1- Virginia

🔷 US HOSPITALS
Nonemergency Surgeries cancelled

• Overlake Medical Center (WA)
• Seattle Children’s Hospital
• Swedish Medical Center (WA)
• New York City’s Health
• NewYork Presbyterian Hospital

🔷TESTING

• President Trump tests negative for the coronavirus
• 5 million coronavirus tests would be available within a month
  
  

🔷 BUSINESS

• Apple, Urban Outfitters closed for duration
• TacoBell - Drive thru only

🔷 TRAVEL

• US travel ban now extends to UK, Ireland
• Colorado Ski Resorts Closed

🔷 VOTING

• Georgia Mar. 24 primary moved to May 19

🔷 SPORTS
▪️Detroit Pistons forward Christian Wood is positive

Sat. Mar. 14,
3:30pm

From Gov. Murphy's Press Conference
​
"Residents need to do the little things, practicing good social hygiene and staying home when possible, and we will get thru this....The spread of this disease will be stopped at the community level. Taking personal responsibility will make all the difference. "

🔷 NJ PATIENTS
69 total, including 19 new today:

New Patients

• 13 Females, 6 Male
• Ages 18 to 80
• Bergen 7
• Middlesex 7
• Essex 2 
  • Female, 74, Bloomfield
  • Male, 77, Bloomfield
• Hudson 2
• Monmouth 1

🔷 COUNTY TOTALS

• Bergen: 25
• Burlington: 3
• Camden: 2
• Essex: 7
  • Patient 25 - Female, 66-year-old, Montclair at Mountainside Hospital
    
    
  • Patient 40 - Female, 70s, Montclair
    
    
  • Patient 41 - Male, 60s, Montclair
    
    
  • Patient 42 - Female, 60s
    
    
  • Patient 43 - Female, 74, Livingston
    
    
  • Patient 51 - Female, 74, Bloomfield
    
    
  • Patient 52 - Male, 77, Bloomfield
• Hudson: 5
• Mercer: 1
• Middlesex: 10
• Monmouth: 8
• Morris: 3
• Ocean: 1
• Passaic: 2
• Somerset: 1
• Union: 1
  ​

🔷 NUMBERS REPORTING / PRIVATE TESTING
There has been confusion over NJDOH's announced patient numbers

• Local Board of Health is given full information for their own municipality and will make it public
  
  
• Specimen batches are tested overnight, then reported
  
  
• Robert Woods Johnson and Hackensack University hospitals directly report all information to the State
  
  

BUT

• Private testing companies are only reporting positives to the state, and then slowly transferring the rest of patient information electronically to the state
  
  
• State is requesting much better insight into negative and all results from private companies
  
  

🔷 SCHOOL CLOSURES
Governor: "It's inevitable that all of our schools will shut down in a matter of days. I'm very happy with school districts that have already gone ahead on school closures."
​
Equal Education needs to be confirmed and then schools will close for duration

• Disabilities: Children who have 1/1 support or further needs are handled through the Department of Human Service
  
  
• Food: Every child is to have meals covered by schools if needed
  
  
• Wifi: Every child is to have hotspots provided by schools if needed
  
  
• Computer: Every child is to be provided with loaner laptop / ipads if needed
  
  
• Private schools - are already following provisions at this time
  
  

🔷 BERGEN COUNTY
Governor: "It makes complete logical sense that Bergen would be the first site for mass testing"

• Hardest hit Bergen will begin accelerated testing using a tent structure system at Bergen County Community College
  
  
• American Dream Mall closed for the duration
  
  
• All schools closed and remote teaching
  
  

🔷 SOCIAL DISTANCING / RESTAURANTS / MEETINGS
Governor: "I'm currently in a room separated by 6 feet from the three others here with me."

NJ Health Commissioner: "Everyone should assume that the corona virus is present in your community. First decide, should you even be there?"

• Keep a healthy distance from everyone
• Stay home
• Public Hearings (anything under 250+ allowed) but social distancing should be in effect
  
  

🔷 NURSING HOMES - NO VISITORS

• No visitors in long term care except for end of life, including all Nursing homes.
  
  
• Adult day care may decide to close on their own but keep clients at safe distance from each other
  
  

🔷 COVID TESTING

• Bergen County accelerated testing begins Monday
• Rest of state within weeks
• Prioritized testing for the most vulnerable: those who were exposed, those showing symptoms
• Anyone with mild symptoms should remain home
• Negative Results: Sometimes the virus is not showing in the initial stages; people will need to be re-tested.
  
  

🔷 NJ DEPARTMENT OF CORRECTIONS - NO VISITORS
Commissioner
"We know that families are a critical support to inmates, but insuring the health of our inmates and staff is of paramount importance."

Starts today at 5pm

• Inmates still have access to Courts but judicial trials already stopped indefinitely
  
  

Inmates now given increased access to:

• Free and extended phones calls
• Free postage  

Screenings and temperature scans at intake:

• No one accepted if they present with symptoms

Patients

• No inmates have tested positive
  
  

🔷 HEALTH CARE PERSONAL PROTECTIVE EQUIPMENT
Governor: "Incredible heroism of our healthcare workers, they have never been more valuable and their personal well-being more important than now."

• Governor and Vice President Pence spoke last night regarding healthcare needs
• Shipment of thousands of gowns, masks, jumpsuits arrived today; more is needed
  
  

🔷 STORE SHORTAGES / TRUCKING REVISIONS
Governor: "If we thought there was a reason to hoard, I promise you I would say so."

▪️ The NJ trucking industry has loosened requirements so that supplies can keep getting through to retail stores 

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FRIDAY, Mar. 13
Day 10

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Sat, Mar. 14
5:15am
for Friday, Mar. 13
​
🔷 National Emergency Declared 

🔷 NEW JERSEY - 51 Patients
(including 1 death)
Essex total:

• 6 or 5 (number has vacillated today)

There have been no details released:

• Patient 30 - Female, 49, Princeton - recently in Boston
• Patient 32 - Male, 40s, Hoboken - isolating at home
• Patient 33 - Female, 41, Jersey City
• Patients 34, 35, 36, 37 - Bergen County
• Patient 38 - Burlington County
• Patient 39 - Female, 74, Livingston
• Patient 40 - Female, 70s, Montclair
• Patient 41 - Male, 60s, Montclair
• Patient 42 - Female, 60s, Essex County
• Patient (43 - MAYBE) Essex County
• Patients (43), 44 - Middlesex County
• Patients 45, 46 - Monmouth County
• Patients 47 - East Hanover
• Patients 48 - Morris County
• Patient 49 - Ocean County
• Patients 50, 51 - Passaic County

🔷 COUNTY PATIENT TOTALS

• Bergen: 17 (including 1 death)
• Monmouth: 7
• Essex: 6
• Middlesex: 4
• Burlington: 3
• Hudson: 3
• Morris: 3
• Passaic: 3
• Camden: 1
• Mercer: 1
• Ocean: 1
• Somerset: 1
• Union: 1

🔷 NEW YORK - 421 Patients
New York City's Schools to remain open.

• America's largest school system: 1.1 million students,
  • 114,000 homeless students depend on schools for daily food and shelter. This should not be happening ever, anywhere.
    
    
• New York Public Library Closed

🔷 UNITED STATES - 2,174 Patients in 49 States

• 12 Patients Have recovered
• 33 States declare State of Emergency
  
  

Patients include:

• 510 - Washington
• 421 - New York
• 314 - California
• 123 - Massachusetts
• 77- Colorado
• 51 - New Jersey
• 51 - Texas
• 46 - Florida
• 46 - Illinois
• 42 - Georgia

48 Patients Deceased:

• 37 - Washington
• 4 - California
• 2 - Florida
• 1 - Colorado
• 1 - Georgia
• 1 - Kansas
• 1 - New Jersey
• 1- South Dakota

🔷 STATES HAVE ORDERED SCHOOLS CLOSED
18 States, and DC

• Alabama
• Alaska
• Delaware
• Illinois
• Kentucky
• Louisiana
• Maryland
• Michigan
• New Mexico
• Ohio
• Oregon
• Pennsylvania
• Rhode Island
• Utah
• Virginia
• Washington
• Washington DC
• West Virginia
• Wisconsin

🔷 COVID TESTING

• ▪️ US is hoping to vastly increase testing capabilities.
  • South Korea is testing 10,000 people DAILY
  • US has tested a TOTAL of less than 15,000 patients
• Drive through sites in CVS, Target, Walgreens, and Walmart parking lot will be utilized for fast testing

🔷 BIPARTISAN PACKAGE EXPECTED TO PASS SENATE

• Paid Leave covered for "those infected by the virus, quarantined, have a sick family member or are impacted by school closures"
  • FREE Covid19 Testing
  • $1 billion in food aid
  • 2 weeks Paid Sick Leave
  • 3 months paid family and medical leave

🔷 GATHERINGS

• Massachusetts bans gathering of 200+ people
• AMC Theaters caps audiences at 250 people

🔷 HOME DELIVERIES

• UPS reports deliveries have reached "holiday season-levels"
  • Wisconsin driver: “We had a guy this morning go out with an entire truck with just toilet paper on it."

🔷 MEDICAL SHORTAGES AND DELAYS

• "After a patient is tested, the room needs to be vacated for two hours and undergo a thorough cleaning"
  
  
• American Clinical Laboratory Association reports health centers are running short on:
  • Machines that process the test results
  • N95 respirators
  • gloves
  • goggles
  • gowns
  • masks
  • swabs
  • viral transport media

🔷 TRAVEL

• Disneyland (CA) and Disneyworld (FL) - closed
• Louvre, Eiffel Tower, Paris Disney - Closed
• Nepal closes Mount Everest
• Carnival, Royal Caribbean, Norwegian and MSC Cruises suspends all voyages 

🔷 SPORTS CANCELLATIONS

• Boston Marathon - now Sept. 14
  
  
• Masters Tournament, Augusta National Women’s Amateur, and the Drive, Chip and Putt National Finals
  
  
• PGA Players Championship and all PGA events through the Valero Texas Open
  
  
• ESPN will feature "encore presentations of events, specials and feature programming"
  
  
• NBA players are donating to help the hourly arena workers 
  
  
• NCAA will extend eligibility of spring sports athletes by one year due to lost season

🔷 BUSINESS

• Apple closing all stores outside China 

🔷 VOTING

• Louisiana moved April 4 primary to June 20

​
🔷 PRISONS

• US Prisons are likely unable to stop virus spreading in overcrowded prison populations
  • Bureau of Prisons is suspending inmate visits at all 122 federal correctional facilities
  • Many state jails are stopping visits, including defense attorneys

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THURSDAY, Mar. 12
Day 9

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​Fri, Mar. 13
​12am
​for Thursday, Mar. 12

NEW JERSEY - 29 Patients (including 1 deceased)
6 today:

• Patient 24 - Female, 16, Englewood at Englewood Heath
  
  
• Patient 25 - Female, 66-year-old, Montclair at Mountainside Hospital
  
  
• Patient 26 - Male, 51, Butler at Chilton Medical Center
  
  
• Patient 27 - Male, 23, Bridgewater
  
  
• Patient 28 - Male, 53, Manalapan
  
  
• Patient 29 - Female, Teaneck

NJ CROWD GATHERING BAN

• Gov. Murphy bans all gatherings in New Jersey over 250+ people

NJ SCHOOLS

• NJ High School Basketball State Tournament ended
• Verona Schools closed to teach remotely through March 31

NJ COURTS
REMOTE USAGE:

• Video/Phone Motions, Hearings, Non-Jury Trials with only Judge and staff in courtroom
• Training of Judges and Staff will take place next week
  
  

JURY TRIALS

• Trials in progress will continue
• No new Criminal / Civil trials to begin
• Grand Juries may continue
• No juror should report if they are sick OR exposed
  
  

COURT HOUSE

• Court schedules will be staggered to cut down on crowd
• Activities cancelled: Student tours / Family visit days
• Judges, Staff, Committee to videoconference
• All out of state travel canceled

From Chief Justice Stuart Rabner:

NEWARK ARCHDIOCESE MASSES SUSPENDED
Cardinal Tobin announced tonight:

• Obligation to attend Mass is suspended until further notice
• This weekend all public Masses are cancelled
• Mass decisions will be made daily
• Church buildings to remain open; those that pray are asked to keep a distance from each other
• Weddings / Baptisms / Funerals are permitted but immediate family members only should attend
• All Catholic schools closed Monday through Mar. 22 and will be re-assessed
• CCD classes are suspended through Mar. 20

“We encourage pastors to think about necessary activities and to postpone non-essential gatherings, keeping in mind the common good.”

JERSEY CITY STRICT REGULATIONS AND CURFEW

ATTENDANCE RECORDS

• Restaurant / Worship required to record identity of anyone entering in case it's needed for future exposure tracing

GATHERINGS

• 10pm Curfew
• All public meetings and private events on city property cancelled
• City offices will remain open - but by appointment only to see staff

Mayor Steve Fulop Executive Order

​NEW YORK -328 Patients

NY CONTAINMENT

• National Guard is now assisting in New Rochelle until Mar. 25

NY CROWD GATHERING BAN

• Gov. Cuomo ban all gatherings in New York of 500+ people
• New York City State of Emergency

BROADWAY CLOSES FOR 30 DAYS

• Shows hoping to reopen on Apr. 13
• Refunds available for all tickets purchased for this period

NYC MUSEUMS, HALLS CLOSED

• Frick Collection
  galleries and library closed
  all events cancelled
  
  
• Metropolitan Museum of Art and Cloisters closed
  • 2 staff positive
    
    
• Metropolitan Opera, Carnegie Hall closed through March 31
  
  
• 9/11 Museum closed

NY WORSHIP / REMOTE WORSHIP

New York Archdiocese

• All Schools closed / activites cancelled

Fifth Avenue Presbyterian Church Remote Worship Plan

• Church is closed to all except Staff
• Video Service will be uploaded to Youtube
• Street Ministry will continue
• Shelter has been closed, cleaned and will reopen with 6 guests on Monday
• Adult Education will be online
• Sunday School suspended
• Youth Group will meet using the Zoom app
• "Meals on Heels" will continue delivering meals to needy

UNITED STATES - 1599 Patients including:

• 416 - Washington
• 328 - New York
• 247 - California
• 108 - Massachusetts
• 49 - Colorado
• 36 - Texas
• 31 - Georgia
• 30 - Florida
• 29 - New Jersey
• 25 - Illinois
  ​

Deaths

• 31 - Washington
• 4 - California
• 2 - Florida
• 1 - New Jersey
• 1 - South Dakota

SPORTS CANCELLED

• Miami Open, and Men’s Tennis tour stopped
• NCAA Basketball Tournaments cancelled
• Major League Baseball suspended games; delaying start of 2020 season
• National Hockey League games stopped
• Major League Soccer games stopped
• National Basketball Assn games stopped
  • 2nd Utah Jazz player positive

WASHINGTON DC TOURISM SHUT DOWN
Capitol Buildings Closed to Public and Tours Stopped

• Smithsonian
• US Capitol Building
• Pentagon
• White House
• Supreme Court
  ​

ENTERTAINMENT CANCELLED

• Live Nation Entertainment Tours (Billie Eilish, Jason Aldean, Zac Brown Band, Cher, Kiss, Post Malone, Tool, Lynyrd Skynyrd, Chris Stapleton, Lady Gaga)
  
  
• AEG Present Tours (Justin Bieber, Rolling Stones, Robert Plant)

RESORTS CLOSED

DISNEYLAND (CA) CLOSED STARTING SATURDAY

• Closing Saturday through March 31
• Hotels remaining open through Monday
• No Illness
• Downtown Disney staying open
• Disney cast members will be paid
• Refunds available for any reserved for this time period
  
  

UNIVERSAL STUDIOS (CA) CLOSED STARTING SATURDAY

• Closing Saturday through March 28
• No Illness
• Universal CityWalk staying open 

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Thur, Mar. 12
4pm

29 Patients (including 1 deceased)
Patients are listed in order they were announced
BERGEN COUNTY - 13 Patients

• Patient 1: James Cai - Health care worker Male, 32, Fort Lee - at Hackensack Univ Medical Center. He has spoken out about his condition
  
  
• Patient 2: Female, 30s, was Englewood Hospital, now isolating at home
  
  
• Patient 4 - Male, 55, Englewood Hospital - attended CPAC in Maryland
  
  
• Patient 5 - Health care worker Male, 70, Teaneck at St. Joseph's University Medical Center in Paterson
  
  
• Patient 8 - Male, 30, Teaneck - at Holy Name Medical Center
  
  
• Patient 14 - Bergen County
  
  
• Patient 15 - Deceased: Male, age 69, from Little Ferry with preexisting emphysema, diabetes and hypertension. Treated with antibiotics and Tamiflu at Hackensack University Medical Center
  
  
• Patient 16 - Bergen County
• Patient 17 - Bergen County
• Patient 18 - Bergen County
• Patient 19 - Bergen County
  
  
• Patient 24 - Female, 16, Englewood at at Englewood Hospital
  ​
• Patient 29 - Female, Teaneck, at Holy
  Name Medical Center

BURLINGTON COUNTY - 2 Patients

• Patient 12 and Patient 13 - Married: Female, 60, and Male 62

CAMDEN COUNTY - 1 Patient

• Patient 3: Male, 61, Cherry Hill at Jefferson Cherry Hill Hospital, Camden
  
  

ESSEX COUNTY - 1 Patient

• Patient 25 - Female, 66-year-old, Montclair at Mountainside Hospital
  
  

HUDSON COUNTY - 1 Patient

• Patient 6 - Male, 32, West New York at Hackensack University Medical Center

MIDDLESEX COUNTY - 2 Patients

• Patient 20 - Middlesex County
• Patient 21 - Middlesex County
  
  

MONMOUTH COUNTY - 5 Patients

• Patient 10 - Male, 27, Little Silver, not hospitalized (Attended Biogen Conference, Boston)
  
  
• Patient 11 - Female, 83, Hazlet - at Bayshore Medical Center, Holmdel
  
  
• Patient 22 - Monmouth County
• Patient 23 - Monmouth County
  
  
• Patient 28 - Male, 53, Manalapan, at Central State

MORRIS COUNTY - 1 Patient

• Patient 26 - Male, 51, Butler at Chilton Medical Center
  
  

PASSAIC COUNTY - 1 Patient

• Patient 7 - Female, 18, Clifton - hospitalized
  
  

SOMERSET COUNTY - 1 Patient

• Patient 27 - Male, 23, Bidgewater

UNION COUNTY - 1 Patient

• Patient 9 - Male, 48, Berkeley Heights - at Overlook Medical Center, Summit

Thu, Mar. 12
2pm

WEST ESSEX HIGH SCHOOLS / MIDDLE SCHOOLS -

• Schools closed through Sunday evening
• Mamma Mia, Tricky Tray, SATs, Sports - postponed
• There is no illness
• Evaluating further school closures

WEDNESDAY, Mar. 11
Day 8

Thu Mar. 12
12:45am
for Wed. March 11:

1 Week After New Jersey's First Patient
WHO declares COVID-19 a Pandemic Outbreak (worldwide, no immunity)

CORONA VS. FLU Death rates

• Corona: 3.4% - no vaccines, no treatments available
• Flu: 0.1% - vaccinations and treatments available
  
  

PRESIDENT TRUMP ADDRESS
European Travel to US Suspension
30 days, starts Friday
US Citizens can travel, but only if they pass screening
Countries (except UK and Ireland)

• Austria
• Belgium
• Czech Republic
• Denmark
• Estonia
• Finland
• France
• Germany
• Greece
• Hungary
• Iceland
• Italy
• Latvia
• Liechtenstein
• Lithuania
• Luxembourg
• Malta
• Netherlands
• Norway
• Poland
• Portugal
• Slovakia
• Slovenia
• Spain
• Sweden
• Switzerland

Economic relief proposed including:

• Paid family sick leave
• Small business loans
• Deferred tax payments
• Payroll tax relief

Congress is proposing additional financial relief

THE REASON FOR FACE MASKS AND HAND WASHING
US Study Released Today, co-published by Princeton, UCLA, CDC, NIH
The Virus can live

• 3 hours in the air
• 4 hours on copper
• 24 hours on cardboard
• 2 to 3 days on plastic and stainless steel

🔷 
NEW JERSEY - 23 Patients
(including 1 deceased)
8 new patients with limited descriptions:

• All hospitalized
• 3 Female Patients, 5 Male Patients, Ages: 17 to 66-years-old
  • Patient 16, 17, 18, 19 - Bergen County
  • Patient 20, 21 - Middlesex County
  • Patient 22, 23 - Monmouth County

NJ JAILS

• Bergen, Passaic and Essex Counties suspend all contact visitations but continued traditional visits (through a glass)
• Passaic County and Essex County allowing attorney contact visitations

NJ HOSPITALS
(ATLANTIC HEALTH) - VISITATION RULES
HOSPITALS:

• Chilton Medical Center (Pompton Plains)
• Hackettstown Medical Center 
• Morristown Medical Center and Goryeb Children's Hospital
• Newton Medical Center 
• Overlook Medical Center (Summit) 

REVISED RULES

• Hours: 8am to 8pm
• Limit to 2 visitors in room including NICU, Pediatric
• 1 visitor in waiting areas and ER
• Maternity - 1 support person
• No one under age 18 
  
  

OTHER CARE SITES (Urgent Care, Outpatient Offices, Rehabilitations)

• Limit to 1 visitor per patient
  
  

(HACKENSACK MERIDIAN) - VISITATION RULES

NO VISITORS

• Bayshore Medical Center (Holmdel)
• Nursing Homes / Rehabilitation facilities except in end-of-life situations: Includes West Caldwell Care Center

OTHER HOSPITALS ALLOWING VISITORS:

• Hackensack Univ, Sanzari Children's (Hackensack)
• Jersey Shore Univ, Hovnanian Children's (Neptune City)
• JFK Med Center (Edison)
• Mountainside Medical Center (Montclair)
• Ocean Med Center (Brick)
• Riverview Med Center (Red Bank)
• Palisades Medical Center (North Bergen)
• Pascack Valley Medical Center (Westwood)
• Raritan Bay Medical Centers (Perth Amboy)(Old Bridge)
• Southern Ocean Medical Center (Manahawkin)

REVISED VISITOR RULES

• 8am to 8pm
• 2 visitors per patient
• No one under age 12
• ALL Visitors screened​

LUTHERAN SOCIAL MINISTRIES OF NJ - NO VISITORS

LOCATIONS

• Crane's Mill (West Caldwell)
• The Villa at Florham Park
• Lutheran Senior Life at Jersey City

REVISED RULES

• No Visitors except in emergencies
• ALL Staff and contractors will screen at entry
• Transportation service only for medical appointments
• ALL resident gatherings discouraged
• ALL outside gatherings (social / worship) cancelled

SUNRISE SENIOR LIVING - SCREENED VISITING

BRIGHTON GARDENS LOCATIONS

• Edison
• Florham Park
• Middletown
• Mountainside
• Saddle River
• West Orange, NJ

SUNRISE LOCATIONS

• Basking Ridge
• Bridgewater
• Cresskill
• East Brunswick
• Edgewater
• Jackson
• Lincroft
• Madison
• Marlboro
• Morris Plains
• Old Tappan
• Paramus
• Randolph
• Shrewsbury
• Wall
• Wayne
• West Essex (Fairfield)
• Westfield
• Woodcliff Lake

REVISED VISITATION RULES

• ALL Visitors / Vendors screened at entry
• ALL Staff screened at entry
• Visits take place in residence or in limited public areas

REVISED RESIDENCE RULES

• DAILY Resident screenings
• Limited large family events (over 10 people)
• Limited resident group outings
• Enhanced activities calendar focused on in-house activities and small group gatherings

*****
NEW YORK - 218 Patients

PENNSYLVANIA - 16 Patients

DELAWARE - 1 Patient

• Male, 50, University of Delaware Professor - isolating at home

UNITED STATES - 1,195 Patients in 39 States
Deaths: 37

• Washington - 29
• California - 4
• Florida - 2
• New Jersey - 1
• South Dakota - 1

BROADCAST / ENTERTAINMENT

• 2 New York City CBS News employees tested positive; all employees will work remotely. Any who had contact will isolate
  
  
• Shows with no Audience:
  • CBS The Late Show
  • NBC The Tonight Show
  • HBO Last Week Tonight
  • Jeopardy
  • Wheel of Fortune
    
    
• ▪️Tom Hanks, Rita Wilson test positive

ST. PATRICK'S PARADES CANCELLED

• Bergen County
• Jersey City
• Morristown
• Newark
• New York City
• Philadelphia
• Union County
• West Orange
  
  

CONFERENCES CANCELED

• ▪️"Doing Business under Coronavirus" Conference (DC)
  
  

SPORTS / GATHERINGS

• NBA suspends all games until further notice; Utah Jazz player positive
• NCAA March Madness basketball tournaments essential staff and limited family only - no fans
• San Francisco prohibits all gatherings over 1,000 people
• Seattle prohibits all gatherings over 250 people
• College Basketball Invitational cancelled
• The Ivy League cancels all upcoming competitions and practices
• Houston Livestock Show and Rodeo cancelled
• CinemaCon (Las Vegas) cancelled
• World Figure Skating Championships (Montreal)

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TUESDAY, Mar. 10
Day 7

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Tues, Mar. 10
11:15pm

NEW JERSEY - 15 Patients
(including 1 deceased)

• Patient 1: James Cai - Health care worker Male, 32, Fort Lee - at Hackensack Univ Medical Center. He has spoken out about his condition online here
  
  
• Patient 2: Female, 30s, was Englewood Hospital, now isolating at home
  
  
• Patient 3: Male, 61, Cherry Hill at Jefferson Cherry Hill Hospital, Camden
  
  
• Patient 4 - Male, 55, Englewood Hospital - attended CPAC in Maryland
  
  
• Patient 5 - Health care worker Male, 70, Teaneck at St. Joseph's University Medical Center in Paterson
  
  
• Patient 6 - Male, 32, West New York at Hackensack University Medical Center
  
  
• Patient 7 - Female, 18, Clifton - hospitalized
  
  
• Patient 8 - Male, 30, Teaneck - at Holy Name Medical Center
  
  
• Patient 9 - Male, 48, Berkeley Heights - at Overlook Medical Center, Summit
  
  
• Patient 10 - Male, 27, Little Silver, not hospitalized (Attended Biogen Conference, Boston)
  
  
• Patient 11 - Female, 83, Hazlet - at Bayshore Medical Center, Holmdel
  
  
• Patient 12
  Patient 13 - Married: Female, 60, and Male 62 - Burlington County
  
  
• Patient 14 - Bergen County
  
  
• Patient 15 - Deceased: Male, age 69, from Little Ferry with preexisting emphysema, diabetes and hypertension. Treated with antibiotics and Tamiflu at Hackensack University Medical Center
  
  

NEW YORK - 173 Patients

• Westchester: 108 (10 new)
• New York City: 36 (17 new)
• Nassau: 19 (2 new)
• Rockland: 6 (2 new)
• Saratoga: 2
• Suffolk: 1
• Ulster: 1
  
  
• New Rochelle / Eastchester is now a “containment zone." All Schools, Community Centers, Churches, Temples are closed for 2 weeks. National Guard will work to decontaminate buildings and deliver meals to people under quarantine
  
  
• New York City - Road Runners Club Half Marathon cancelled
  
  
• United Nations - Closed to public

UNITED STATES - 973 Patients in 37 States
Deaths: 30

• Washington - 24
• California - 2
• Florida - 2
• New Jersey - 1
• South Dakota - 1
  
  

CLOSED COLLEGES (added) - Remote Teaching:

• American University
• Amherst College
• Bergen Community College
• Boston College
• Boston University
• Bucknell University
• City University of New York State 
• Cornell University
• Drew University
• Emerson College
• Fairleigh Dickinson
• Franklin & Marshall College
• Harvard University
• Hofstra University
• Indiana University
• James Madison University
• Juilliard
• Kent State
• Manhattanville College (Purchase NY)
• Massachusetts Institute of Technology
• Monmouth University
• Montclair State University
• Mount Holyoke
• Muhlenberg
• New Jersey Institute of Technology
• Northeastern University
• Ohio State University
• Pennsylvania State University (Penn State)
• ​Pittsburgh University
• Ramapo College
• Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
• Rutgers University
• Seton Hall University
• St. John's University
• State University of New York - all campuses
• Syracuse University
• Tufts University
• University of Delaware
• University of Maryland
• University of Massachusetts​
• University of Pittsburgh
• University of Scranton
• University of Vermont
• ​University of Virginia
• Virginia Tech
• Wentworth Institute of Technology (MA)
• Wheaton College (MA)
• William Paterson University

ST. PATRICK'S DAY (added)

• Philadelphia's St. Patrick's Day Parade - cancelled
  
  

FESTIVAL / CONFERENCES / GATHERINGS

• Coachella Valley Music and Arts (Indio, CA) cancelled
• Stagecoach Country Music (Indio, CA) cancelled
• Democratic debate in Phoenix - no audience
• Wheel of Fortune gameshow - no audience
  
  
• Investigative Reporters and Editors Conference (New Orleans) was not cancelled; attended tested positive

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MONDAY, Mar. 9
Day 6

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Mon., Mar. 9
10:30pm

New Jersey State of Emergency / Public Health Emergency

• to free up state funds for districts across the state
  
  
• NJ Superintendent of Police Col. Patrick A. Callahan and NJ Commissioner of Health Judith M. Persichilli, RN, BSN, MA, will oversee NJ's emergency response
  
  

WEST ESSEX area schools closing to allow staff to practice remote learning:
Tuesday, Mar. 10 - No School

• Livingston School
  
  

Thursday, Mar. 12 - Early Dismissal

• Cedar Grove Schools
• Fairfield Schools
• Roseland Schools
• West Essex HS / MS
  
  

Friday, Mar. 13 -  Early Dismissal

• Verona Schools
  
  

Monday, Mar. 16 - Early Dismissal

• Trinity Academy
  
  

"At tonight's CWC BOE meeting, Dr. Heinegg said that they will decide in the next day or two if they’ll call a full day or half day off for planning"

North Caldwell schools are surveying families to make sure everyone has internet / device capability. 

NEW JERSEY - 11 patients

• Patient 1: Male, 32, Fort Lee - at Hackensack Univ Medical Center
  
  
• Patient 2: Female, 30s, was Englewood Hospital, now isolating at home
  
  
• Patient 3: Male, 60s, Cherry Hill at Camden County hospital
  
  
• Patient 4 - Male, 55, Englewood Hospital - attended CPAC in Maryland
  
  
• Patient 5 - Health care worker, 70, Teaneck at St. Joseph's University Medical Center in Paterson
  
  
• Patient 6 - Male, 32, West New York at Hackensack University Medical Center
  
  
• Patient 7 - Female, 18, Clifton - in hospital
  
  
• Patient 8 - Male, 30, Teaneck - at Holy Name Medical Center
  
  
• Patient 9 - Male, 48, Berkeley Heights - at Overlook Medical Center, Summit
  
  
• Patient 10 - Male, 27, Little Silver, not hospitalized
  
  
• Patient 11 - Female, 83, Hazlet - at Bayshore Medical Center, Holmdel
  
  

New York - 142 Patients

• Westchester: 98
• NYC: 19
• Nassau: 17
• Rockland: 4
• Saratoga: 2
• Suffolk: 1
• Ulster: 1

UNITED STATES - 650 patients
26 deaths (WA - 22, CA - 2, FL - 2)

US State of Emergency

• California
• Florida
• Kentucky
• Maryland
• New Jersey
• New York
• Oregon
• Utah
• Washington
  
  

BUSINESS

• Rick Cotton, Executive Director of Port Authority of NY/NJ has tested positive
  
  
• Amazon Audible, Newark - employees to work remotely

Also remote working list continued:

• NASA’s Ames Research Center, CA
• Anthem Insurance, NY
  
  

ST. PATRICK'S DAY CANCELLATIONS

• Boston St. Patrick's Day Parade cancelled
• Ireland: all St. Patrick's Day Parades cancelled
  
  

STORES

• CVS Health - suspending delivery fee for home prescription service
  
  

COLLEGES - Suspending Classes for Remote Teaching

• Barnard University
• Columbia University
• Fordham University
• New York University
• Princeton University
• Rice University
• Seattle University
• Stanford University
• University of California, Berkeley
• University of Washington
• Yeshiva University

SPORTS

• NBA, NHL, Major League Baseball and Major League Soccer: locker rooms and clubhouses closed to all except essential personnel
  
  

CONFERENCES

• CPAC: Along with Sen. Ted Cruz and Rep. Paul Gosar - Rep. Matt Gaetz, Rep. Doug Collins and White House Chief of Staff Mark Meadows also interacted with NJ Patient at CPAC in Maryland and all are isolating.
  • Rep Louie Gohmert of Texas also interacted, but returned to work.
  • Meadows tested negative

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SUNDAY, Mar. 8
Day 5

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Sunday, Mar. 8
​10:15pm

NEW JERSEY - 6 patients

• Patient 1: Male, 32, Fort Lee - at Hackensack Univ Medical Center
• Patient 2: Female, 30s, Englewood Hospital and isolating at home
• Patient 3: Male, 60s, Camden County hospital
• Patient 4 - Male, 55, Englewood Hospital - Recently attended Conservative Political Action Committee (CPAC) in Maryland
• Patient 5 - Health care worker, 70, Teaneck at St. Joseph's University Medical Center in Paterson
• Patient 6 - Male, 32, West New York at Hackensack University Medical Center

NEW YORK - 105 Patients

• Westchester: 82
• New York City: 12
• Nassau: 5
• Rockland: 2
• Saratoga: 2
• Suffolk: 1
• Ulster: 1
• Declared State of Emergency to expedite tests and cleaning supplies
• Governor encourages all residents to work from home, telecommute and avoid places with a lot of people
• New York Southern District Courts issued an order directing anyone with court appearance to be screened first at entrance for temperature of 100.4 or above. If they have a temperature, they won't be admitted.
• Scarsdale Public School District has closed all schools

COLLEGES

• Columbia University (NYC) and Barnard College (NYC) suspend classes

PENNSYLVANIA - 6 patients

• Montgomery County - 4
• Delaware County - 1
• Wayne County - 1

UNITED STATES - 480 patients
in 34 states and DC ;
21 deaths (18 - WA, 2 - FL, 1 - CA)
Total Including cruise ships off coast: 550

US State of Emergency

• California
• Florida
• Kentucky
• Maryland
• New York
• Oregon
• Utah
• Washington

SPORTS

• NBA has asked teams to plan for possibility of games without fans and with only essential staff present
  
  

MILITARY

• US Army suspending travel for US soldiers to and from South Korea and Italy

FESTIVALS / SEMINARS

• Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) in Maryland did not cancel. A NJ attendee there was positive; Sen. Ted Cruz and Rep. Paul Gosar both interacted and will now isolate themselves for 2 weeks.
• AIPAC Policy Conference in Washington D.C. did not cancel and two attendees have now tested positive

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SATURDAY, Mar. 7
Day 4

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Sat, Mar. 7
10:30am
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Check prior posts for previous news on these subjects:
NJ SCHOOLS

• Learn From Home Education Bill
  Sen. James Beach (D), Sen. Gerald Cardinale (R) call for NJEA counting online school days toward the 180-day school year if districts are forced to close (Currently schools practicing Learn From Home during bad weather are not allowed to include days as required school year)
  "If we have the ability to limit the risk to both our children and their teachers while continuing their education, that’s something that would be smart to do" " Tom Kean Jr (R)
  
  

NJ TRAVEL

• Amtrak: Nonstop Acela trains between Washington and New York (trains 2401, 2402 and 2403) have been suspended
  
  

NJ HIGH SCHOOLS

• New Jersey State Interscholastic Athletic Association: Anyone showing symptoms of illness should not attend public events and refrain from sharing any clothing, wrestling gear, water or food
  
  

NJ SHOPPING

• Costco stops free samples
• Starbucks not accepting personal cup refills
• Wegmans allowing only 3 purchases of each: Hand sanitizer / Rubbing alcohol / Alcohol wipes / Prep pads / Hydrogen peroxide
  
  

NJ BUSINESS WORKING ON VACCINATION

• NJ: Johnson & Johnson
  Companies working on vaccines include
• CA: Gilead Sciences, Vir Biotechnology
• MA: Moderna Inc
• NY: Regeneron Pharmaceuticals
• PA: Inovio Pharmaceuticals
• France: Sanofi
• Japan: Takeda Pharmaceutical
• UK: GlaxoSmithKline
  
  

NY SPORTS

• Yankees warned about signing autographs
• Knicks warned not to high-five, or sign autographs
  
  

US COLLEGES

• National College Players Association calls on NCAA to hold March Madness games inside empty arenas.
  
  
• Johns Hopkins University hosted opening rounds of NCAA Division III men’s basketball tournament inside an empty Baltimore gym
  “In light of Maryland’s recently confirmed cases of COVID-19, and based on CDC guidance for large gatherings, we have determined that it is prudent to hold this tournament without spectators”
  
  
• NCAA has formed Medical advisory group; not yet recommending games' cancellation or barring fans from attending sports events
  
  
• Chicago State University canceled men's basketball team conference travel and women's basketball hosting
  
  
• Northwestern cancelled annual Dance Marathon and all university spring break trips

SPORTS

• 32nd annual Arnold Schwarzenegger Sports Festival in Columbus, OH will ban spectators
  
  

ASIAN CURRENCY INTO US

• US Federal Reserve quarantining all physical dollars from Asia
  
  

DISINFECTANTS

• CDC approved disinfectant cleaners list includes (Commercial / Heavy Duty for healthcare) Clorox, Lysol found here

MORE FESTIVALS / CONVENTIONS CANCELED

• American Bar Association Annual Institute (San Diego)
• American Physical Society annual (Denver)
• Annual U.S. Senate Youth Program (DC)
• CERAWeek Energy Conference (Houston)
• Facebook Global Marketing Summit (San Francisco)
• Global Health 2020 Conference & Exhibition (Orlando)
• Google's I/O Developer Conference (Mountain View, CA)
• International Housewares Association Inspired Home Show 2020 (Chicago)
• International Monetary Fund and World Bank Meeting (DC)
• Milken Institute Global Conference (Beverly Hills)
• Natural Products Expo West (Anaheim)
• Women of the World Festival (Baltimore)
  
  

CANCELED CONVENTIONS TO NOW BE ONLINE ONLY

• Adobe Annual Summit (Las Vegas)
• Google's Cloud Next '20 (San Francisco)
• IBM Think 2020 (San Francisco)
• Microsoft’s MVP Summit (Redmond, WA)
• Nvidia GPU Technology Conference (San Jose

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FRIDAY, Mar. 6
Day 3

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Friday, Mar. 6
11:40pm

New Jersey

• Patient 1: Male, 32, Hackensack Univ Medical Center. He is a health professional who on Saturday treated 10 patients at the hospital, while wearing masks and gloves
  
  
• Patient 2: Female, 30s, Englewood Hospital and isolating at home
  
  
• Patient 3: Male, 60s, Camden County hospital
  
  
• Patient 4 - Male, 50s, Englewood Hospital

New York

• 44 Patients; 2,773 person quarantined ; Some schools suspend classes
  
  

Pennsylvania

• 2 Patients
  
  

United States

• 306 Patients;
  17 Deaths
  (14-Washington, 1- California,
  2-Florida)

Colleges Suspending School (Remote teaching)

• University of Washington, Seattle University, Northeastern University (Seattle campus)

Festival / Convention Cancellations:

• South by Southwest (Austin), Emerald City Comic Con (Seattle), Ultra Music Festival (Miami), McDonald’s "Worldwide Convention" (Orlando)

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THURSDAY, Mar. 5
Day 2

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Thur. Mar. 5
9:30pm

• Patient 1: Male, 32, Hackensack Univ Medical Center
  
  
• Patient 2: Female, 30s, Englewood Hospital and isolating at home
  
  
• Possibly Virus without Symptoms: New England Journal of Medicine reports some Chinese patients without symptoms had similar levels of Covid-19 in upper respiratory tract as patients with symptoms have
  
  
• Colleges: Rutgers, Kent State, University San Diego, Penn State University, Kennesaw State University, Fairfield University, University of Wisconsin-Madison, University of Connecticut, University of Georgia not allowing students on campus who have traveled to Covid19 world regions
  
  
• Beware Scammers: Amazon has removed 1 million products claiming Covid19 cure; Scammers selling 8oz bottles of Purell for $48 to $90
  
  
• New York City 4 patients confirmed (state total 22)
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• 200 US patients confirmed; California state of emergency, 11 US deaths

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Thur. Mar. 5
9:30am

• Yesterday's Bergen County patient waiting to be confirmed by CDC: 32-year-old Fort Lee male being treated at Hackensack University Medical Center
  
  
• Kean University in Union has suspended all travel for its athletes - including its softball and baseball teams, which were slated to participate in spring break tournaments
  
  
• Newark Archdiocese
  1. Exchange Sign of Peace without physical contact
  2. Suspend distribution of Precious Blood from chalice
  3. Reminder: Eucharistic Ministers to clean hands with alcohol sanitizer
  4. Reminder: Anyone sick should remain at home
  
  
• New York City 4 patients confirmed (state total 13)
  
  
• 159 US patients confirmed; California state of emergency, 11 US deaths
  
  
• List of Airlines suspending travel between China, Hong Kong, Iran, Italy, Japan, Poland, Romania, Singapore, South Korea, Thailand and United States online here

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WEDNESDAY, Mar. 4
Day 1

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Wed., Mar. 4
9:15pm
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1 NJ patient presumed positive

• Tonight, the NJ Department of Health announced the first presumed case of coronavirus (COVID-19) in New Jersey
  
  
• Patient is Male, Age 30, hospitalized since yesterday in Bergen County
  
  
• Patient had contact with NYC COVID-19 patient

NJ Dept. of Health
"The man was unaware that he had coronavirus, and may have spread the virus to others unknowingly in New Jersey"

• 9 persons in New York confirmed positive
• 11 deaths confirmed in US:
  • 10 in Washington state
  • 1 in California

Announcement from Gov. Phil Murphy:
“We take this situation very seriously and have been preparing for this for weeks. I urge residents to remain calm and use resources from the New Jersey Department of Health and Centers for Disease Control to prepare and prevent the spread of infection. Safeguarding the public’s health is one of my highest priorities and my Administration is prepared to respond swiftly to any additional positive cases of COVID-19 here in New Jersey.”