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School nurses answer the call, volunteering on the front lines as coronavirus cases surge

Marie Noonan is on the hunt.

She is a disease detective these days, conducting phone interviews with coronavirus patients to trace where they have traveled and who they have seen, starting three days before they felt sick.

The objective? Document the chains of infection and figure out where COVID-19 will strike next. “Find out who’s been exposed and did not know about it,” Noonan said. The data informs the state’s communicable disease registry, allowing public health officials to track the pandemic.

Noonan, normally a nurse at Elizabeth’s Nicholas Murray Butler School, is volunteering in the fight… Read the rest of this entry »

Posted: April 6th, 2020 | Author: | Filed under: New Jersey | Tags: , | Comments Off on School nurses answer the call, volunteering on the front lines as coronavirus cases surge

Rep Smith’s Bill Would Forgive Sandy Loans and Stop Claw-backs of RREM Grants

Congressman Chris Smith and Monmouth County Sheriff Shaun Golden prepare to survey Hurricane Sandy damage. November, 2012. Smith’s new legislation would assist citizens and towns still recovering from Sandy while also dealing with the COVID-19 crisis.

Legislation introduced on Friday by Congressman Chris Smith and co-sponsored by Congressman Jeff Van Drew would provide a major assist to citizens and municipalities still recovering from Superstorm Sandy as they now deal with the COVID-19 crisis as well.

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John Maldjian Faces Charges For Rumson Corona Party

UPDATE: Maldjian’s attorney says there was no corona party and his client will plead not guilty. Read the statement here.

John P. Maldjian, photo via facebook

John P. Maldjian, 54, of 147 Black Point Road in Rumson, has been charged with reckless endangerment, disorderly conduct, and two separate charges related to violating the emergency orders, according to a report at NewJerseyGlobe.The charges stem from the corona party Maldijian held at his home on Saturday evening, April 4.

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Monmouth County has 2,352 COVID-19 cases, 58 deaths on April 5, 2020

Monmouth County Freeholder Director Tom Arnone

Monmouth County has 2,351 positive COVID-19 cases, according to an announcement by Freeholder Director Tom Arnone and Deputy Director Sue Kiley.

The New Jersey Department of Health reports that 58 Monmouth County residents have succumbed to the virus.

These numbers indicate an increase of 608 cases and 15 deaths since Friday, April 3.

A town by town breakdown of the cases is as follows:

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Seastreak Offers Free Ferry Service To Medical Workers and First Responders

file photo by Art Gallagher

Seastreak is offering free ferry service between New York City and New Jersey to all medical workers and first responders fighting the COVID-19 pandemic, the company announced today.

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Rumson emulates Lakewood

UPDATE: John P. Maldjian, a 54 year old attorney, was the host of the party. He has been charged with reckless endangerment, disorderly conduct, and two separate charges related to violating the emergency orders, as well as with two Rumson Borough ordinance violations.

Read more here.

A group of about 30 Rumson residents held a Lakewood style corona party at a Black Point Road home on Saturday evening, according to a facebook post by the Borough’s Police Department.

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Murphy Authorizes Towns And Counties To Restrict Short Term Rentals

Governor Phil Murphy and Superintendent of State Police Colonel Patrick Callahan issued an Administrative Order on Saturday that empowers New Jersey Municipalities and Counties to restrict short term rentals in their communities.

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Viruses and Parasites: Will New Jersey Recover?

Joshua A. Sotomayor-Einstein

By Joshua A. Sotomayor-Einstein

America will get through the Covidviral crisis. With the suspension of many bad regulations, some of which limited the supply of lifesaving medical supplies; the might of American industry producing vital medical equipment; the truckers driving long distances with few rest stops open; the farmers and farmhands keeping their fellow Americans in quarantine fed; and food store and pharmacy employees, forgoing the safety of their homes in heavily hit urban areas high in Covid cases, stocking the stores so that we can keep a bit of normalcy while we fight this unseen enemy; we will prevail. We will never forget and long remember the front-line troops of this war, the EMTs, doctors, and nurses working 12-plus hour shifts in environments none of us would want to.

But if we are to recover financially after we do so medically, now more than ever it is necessary for New Jersey’s economic future to reform the punitive system of public pilfering and overspending that even before the Covid epidemic kept our state’s economy from job generation and prosperity. America will recover from the onslaught of the Covidvirus, which has already taken the lives of too many as we flatten the curve, produce more lifesaving equipment, search for treatments, and heaven willing, develop a vaccine. But New Jersey will not recover economically, and its residents will not be able to rebuild financially until massive radical structural and systemic changes are implemented across the board. 

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Expert Insight Into The COVID-19 Real Estate Market

A must read for homeowners, buyers, sellers and tenants

By Paul Ziajski, Atlantic Real Estate Brokers

Man, what a week! I feel like I’ve spent 200 hours on research, webinars and consults. This is truly an unprecedented event. The information is so fluid. I took some time to gather my thoughts and summarize what I’ve learned. It’s a long read but I hope that someone finds a useful piece of information. Have an awesome weekend and stay safe!

– The circumstances surrounding the current market conditions are, clearly, different from those that caused the financial and housing crisis in 2008. Although many agree that the housing market will experience a correction, very few are predicting that it will be impacted as severely as it was during the Great Recession.

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Rep Smith: NJ To Receive $1.7 billion for public transportation

Congressman Chris Smith at work in his Hamilton, NJ office

The State of New Jersey was awarded $1.7 billion by the Federal Transit Administration (FTA) to shore up its mass transit system from the economic upheaval caused of the coronavirus pandemic, Congressman Chris Smith (R-NJ4) announced on Friday.

Read the rest of this entry » Posted: April 3rd, 2020 | Author: | Filed under: Chris Smith, COVID-19, New Jersey, NJ DOT, NJ Transit | Tags: , , , , | 1 Comment »