Senator Declan O’Scanlon today called on the Legislature and Governor’s office to coordinate efforts to spearhead a rebirth of New Jersey’s once world-leading manufacturing and pharmaceutical research and production industries.
“The time is right now for New Jersey to be planning to take a lead role in re-domesticating these critical industries” said Senator O’Scanlon. “We still have the educated workforce, we still have incredible research universities, we still have the capital and investment resources and we still have the foundation of industrial knowledge and capability that made New Jersey the pharmaceutical and industrial capital of the world last century.
Guidelines call for triage teams to save lives and life-years; Murphy and Persichilli insist no patient would be excluded based on age, race, sex, gender identity and other concerns
By Lilo H. Stainton, NJSpotlight
While there are some signs the impact of the coronavirus may be lessening in New Jersey, state officials have distributed guidelines to help hospitals allocate patient resources if there are widespread shortages of things like ventilators or other critical-care supplies.
State Department of Health commissioner Judith Persichilli said the “triage guidelines” issued Saturday evening would not be activated unless a hospital’s intensive-care capacity was overwhelmed and assistance or supplies could not be provided by another facility in the region.
The document outlines a decision-making framework that a triage team can use to assign a score to patients in need of critical care — whether they have COVID-19 or another condition — based in part on the likelihood of short- and long-term survival. These scores would be used to determine who is allocated resources if there are not enough to go around.
Posted: April 14th, 2020 | Author:admin | Filed under:COVID-19, New Jersey | Tags:COVID-19, New Jersey, NJSpotlight | Comments Off on State Distributes ‘Triage Guidelines’ to Allocate Medical Resources If No Other Options Exist
Social distancing is one of the hardest parts of the CO-VID 19 pandemic, especially in how it prevents us reaching out to family and loved ones. A trio of Monmouth county-based small business owners and corporate professionals have started a new initiative to help bridge that gap between friends and families, in a way that keeps them healthy and also supports workers affected by the pandemic.
By purchasing a “SaniGram”, a person can send a friend or loved one a single-use hand sanitizer along with a message saying the sender cares, without the sender having to leave their home. Sending a SaniGra… Read the rest of this entry »
Given the circumstances that required us to celebrate differently
this year, I still hope everyone had a happy Easter and Passover.
As our nation and state
continue to deal with the effects and severity of COVID-19, I want to let you
know that myself and the Monmouth County Board of Chosen Freeholders continue
to work with local, state and federal officials to ensure our residents are
receiving the information and support needed during this unprecedented time. We
continue – and will continue – to advocate on behalf of our business community
and its employees.
New Jersey Air Guard Airmen from the 108th Wing provide traffic control at a COVID-19 Community-Based Testing Site at the PNC Bank Arts Center in Holmdel, N.J., March 23, 2020. The testing site, established in partnership with the Federal Emergency Management Agency, is staffed by the New Jersey Department of Health, the New Jersey State Police, and the New Jersey National Guard. (U.S. Air National Guard photo by Master Sgt. Matt Hecht)
The FEMA supported COVID-19 drive-through testing site at the PNC Arts Center, Garden State Parkway mile 116 in Holmdel has been closed today, Monday April 13, due to forecast high winds, according to NJ’s COVID-19 information hub.
The site is scheduled to open again on Weds, April 15 at 8 am.
Green Leaf Pet Resort is offering free dog daycare to all hospital employees who live in Monmouth and Ocean Counties throughout the month of April at both its Ocean Township and Millstone locations.
This is a wonderful benefit for the brave women and men who are putting themselves at risk as the COVID-19 pandemic is reaching its peak in New Jersey.
Customers entering New Jersey restaurants and bars to pick up takeout food will be required to wear face coverings, Gov. Phil Murphy announced at his daily coronavirus press briefing on Saturday in Trenton.
The executive order goes into effect on Monday at 8 p.m. Customers picking up food curbside or otherwise not entering the restaurant or bar will not be required to wear face coverings.
The order does not require medical-grade masks; bandanas and homemade fabric coverings will suffice, Murphy said.
“Some may view this as another inconvenience,” Murphy said. “But you know what would be really inc… Read the rest of this entry »
Posted: April 11th, 2020 | Author:admin | Filed under:New Jersey | Tags:COVID-19, New Jersey | Comments Off on Customers picking up food from N.J. restaurants must wear masks, Murphy announces
With projected peaks in hospitalizations and cases approaching, New Jersey now has at least 54,588 cases of the coronavirus, with at least 1,932 deaths, as state officials reported 3,627 new cases and 233 new fatalities Friday morning.
Gov. Phil Murphy released the latest numbers at the Trenton War Memorial during his daily coronavirus press briefing, saying there are some “good early signs” of numbers declining in some counties.And he urged residents to continue practicing social distancing to help flatten the curve.As of 10 p.m. Thursday, 7,570 people in New Jersey were hospitalized either with… Read the rest of this entry »
Governor Phil Murphy announced this morning that he is ordering the release of low risk inmates in New Jersey’s State Prison system in response to the COVID-19 pandemic.
Murphy said the pandemic has impacted corrections personnel as well as inmates.
State Police have said that some 10% of police officers in NJ are either self-quarantining or ill with COVID-19 on any given day; retired officers can now be hired back to help
By Kimberlee Bongard, NJSpotlight
With more than 3,000 New Jersey police either testing positive for COVID-19 or in quarantine, some police departments have been having trouble putting enough officers out to enforce stay-at-home and other orders, which people continue to violate.
State police have been reporting that as much as 10% of New Jersey’s total complement of officers are either ill with the disease or in quarantine on any given day. A State Police spokesman said that on Thursday, 623 officers had tested positive for COVID-19 and 2,712 were self-quarantining, representing nearly 10% of the state’s 34,000 police officers.
