NJTV Video: Stay at home order poses special problems for victims of abuse

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Asbury Park suspends short term rentals

Asbury Park has suspended short term rentals within the City limits effective April 1, 2020 until further notice, according to an announcement by Mayor John Moor and Deputy Mayor Amy Quinn.

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NJ COVID-19 Numbers: 22,255 cases, 355 deaths

UPDATE: We’ve received 3,649 new positive #COVID19 cases, bringing our statewide total to 22,255.

We’ve sadly have lost another 91 fellow New Jerseyans to #COVID19, meaning we have now lost a total of 355 members of our great and diverse New Jersey family. pic.twitter.com/XzoRONVJlQ

— Governor Phil Murphy (@GovMurphy) April 1, 2020

22,255 New Jersey residents have come down with COVID-19 and 355 have succumbed to the virus, Governor Phil Murphy announced this afternoon.

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NJ Income Tax Filing Delayed till July 15

New Jersey is joining the federal government in extending the deadline to file and pay income taxes until July 15, according to a joint statement by Governor Phil Murphy, Senate President Steve Sweeney and Assembly Speaker Craig Coughlin. The State Budget Deadline has been postponed from June 30 to September 30.

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Governor Phil Murphy’s COVID-19 Briefing, April 1, 2020

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Murphy to make marijuana sales essential

Governor Phil Murphy will use his emergency powers to expand New Jersey’s medical marijuana program such that all residents subject to the state stay at home order during the COVID-19 crisis are eligible to be treated with weed. Stress, anxiety and hording will be conditions that can be treated under the program. The Governor will announce Executive Order 420 at his press briefing at 1 p.m. on April 1, 2020.

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Menna discharged from Riverview Medical Center

Red Bank Mayor Pasqual “Pat” Menna said he was discharged from Riverview Medical Center at 4 p.m. on Tuesday, in a facebook post made at about 10 p.m.

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Murphy: Jersey Girls still do not pump gas!

PLEASE NOTE: We have no plans to turn our gas stations into self-serve at this time.

Please DO NOT pump your own gas.

— Governor Phil Murphy (@GovMurphy) March 30, 2020

Governor Phil Murphy tweeted this afternoon that New Jersey currently has no plans to allow self-service gas stations.

“Please DO NOT pump your own gas,” the governor said.

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NJ Gun Shops are now essential and open by appointment

Gun shops can now open in New Jersey, as an essential service, during the COVID-19 shutdown, Governor Phil Murphy reluctantly announced today.

According to NJ.com, Murphy reversed himself after the U.S. Department of Homeland Security deemed firearms dealers as essential services in a memo released over the weekend.

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Missing Social-Distancing Data Delays Modeling for COVID-19 Hospital Surge

But health commissioner says hospitals will be able to handle coming spike in demand for critical care

By Jon Hurdle, NJ Spotlight

New Jersey hasn’t yet been able to model an anticipated surge in demand for hospital capacity for COVID-19 patients because it doesn’t have data on the effects of social distancing, but there are signs that hospitals will be able to cope, according to the state’s Commissioner of Health, Judith Persichilli.

The state’s health officials have been using CHIME, a tool for COVID-19 hospital capacity planning, which Penn Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania issued in mid-March. The tool, which has been made available to health care providers in 150 countries via open-source software, allows users to input data including the percentage of infected patients who have been hospitalized; the number of patients currently hospitalized, and the population a hospital system serves.

The resulting model also relies on the degree to which social distancing has reduced social contact, and that data wasn’t yet available, Persichilli said at Gov. Phil Murphy’s Friday briefing on the pandemic.

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