Health officials in New Jersey reported 5,490 newly confirmed cases of coronavirus and 67 additional deaths on Friday, as vaccination rooms reported a huge increase in appointments with the expansion of fitness starting a day earlier.
Government Phil Murphy provided the latest update on Friday afternoon after visiting the state’s third major vaccination site. The site at the New Jersey Convention and Exposition Center in Edison is under six plans. More than 310,000 people have been vaccinated in New Jersey so far.
“We are ready to continue to aggressively expand our vaccination efforts,” Murphy said. ‘We just need the supply of the feeds to supply the demand. We are ready, they are not. ”
As of Thursday evening, 3,543 patients had been admitted to the hospital with confirmed or suspected COVID-19 cases. That is 96 less than the previous night, and the second consecutive number has decreased the number of people admitted to the hospital.
The state of 9 million residents now lost 20,320 residents during the COVID-19 outbreak – 18,229 confirmed deaths and 2,091 considered probable. New Jersey has already announced 1,130 confirmed deaths this month after 1890 in December.
New has now reported 555,299 confirmed cases from more than 8.6 million tests administered since officials announced the state’s first case on March 4. There were also 60,787 positive rapid antigen tests, which the state began reporting publicly last week, although the state warned. which may overlap with the confirmed PCR tests.
COWID-19 transmission across the country increased slightly to 1.11 on Friday, from 1.10 a day earlier. A transmission rate of more than 1 indicates that the outbreak is growing.
The seven-day average for newly confirmed cases is 5,587, up 15% from a week ago and 18% from a month ago.
The positivity rate for tests administered on Monday, the latest day available, was 9.63% out of 70 055 tests. The positivity rate has been 10% or higher since December 22nd.
New Jersey’s top health official warned Wednesday that the state is prepared for an ‘increase’ in hospitalizations of the latest cases that could come early next week and that could cause a new round of restrictions, especially with elective surgeries.
While hospitalizations for weeks remained between 3,500 and 3,900, well below the more than 8,000 peak in the spring, Judy Persichilli, department of health commissioner, said hospital officials were worried about the coming weeks due to available staff.
“We are preparing for the predictive boom that could start as early as next week until mid-February,” Persichilli said on Wednesday.
“What we will not have is the appropriate level of staff that people know, conventional staff,” she said. “We will therefore work with our hospitals if they have to progress to what we call an emergency staff and hopefully never a crisis staff.”
Murphy warned that hospitalizations of more than 5,000 patients are likely to cause new restrictions, particularly with regard to elective surgeries, including procedures such as tumor removal.
Hospitalizations from 1/13/21
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VACCINATIONS
According to the state’s COVID-19 dashboard, more than 310,000 doses of the vaccine have been administered in the state since Friday. Of these, 273,335 were, according to the dashboard, the first of two doses people would receive, while 35,512 were the second.
The one-day high so far on January 8, according to the state, was 24,482 doses administered.
New Jersey averaged about 9,500 shots per day during the first 30 days of the program, including Christmas Day when no doses were administered. The state has averaged about 17,000 shots a day over the past seven days, according to state records.
The state has faced criticism for implementing vaccinations too slowly. Officials stress that there may be an underestimation in the number of vaccines administered as a result of delays, and that New Jersey, like other states, is dependent on the federal government for its supply.
Murphy announced Wednesday that people over the age of 65, as well as people with chronic health conditions and smokers, are eligible.
Officials said doses should be available to the general public by April or May. Health officials said they wanted to vaccinate 70% of its adult population – about 4.7 million people – by the end of May.
Over the past few days, the state has opened the first two of its six planned “mega-sites” for mass vaccinations. Vaccines are also currently available at 130 locations across the state, including local health departments, ShopRite stores and pharmacies.
More than 1.5 million people have registered to get their vaccine.
Vaccine doses appointed by country
- ATLANTIC COUNTRY – 10 811 doses administered
- BERGEN COUNTY – 34 325 doses administered
- BURLINGTON COUNTY – 15,038 doses administered
- CAMDEN COUNTY – 17 465 doses administered
- CAPE MAY COUNTY – 4 535 doses administered
- CUMBERLAND COUNTY – 4477 doses administered
- ESSEX COUNTRY – 25 037 doses administered
- GLOUCESTER COUNTY – 13 033 doses administered
- HUDSON COUNTY – 11,033 doses administered
- HUNTERDON COUNTY – 4 937 doses administered
- TRADE PLANT – 7 342 doses administered
- MIDDLESEX COUNTRY – 23,017 doses administered
- MONMOUTH COUNTY – 24 521 doses administered
- MORRIS COUNTRY – 22 675 doses administered
- OCEAN COUNTY – 16 679 doses administered
- PASSAIC COUNTY – 14 294 doses administered
- SALEM COUNTY – 1 520 doses administered
- SOMERSET COUNTRY – 12 317 doses administered
- SUSSEX COUNTRY – 5 248 doses administered
- UNION COUNTRY – 14 728 doses administered
- WARREN-LAND – 3,227 doses administered
- FOREIGN RESIDENTS – 15 104 doses administered
- UNKNOWN COUNTRY – 9 232 doses administered
HOSPITALIZATIONS
There were 3,433 patients admitted to the hospital with confirmed (3,313) or suspected (230) COVID-19 cases as of Thursday night. It was 96 less than the previous evening and the second consecutive number dropped the hospital.
This included 626 in critical or intensive care (18 less than the previous evening), with 438 fans (19 less).
452 COVID-19 patients were discharged Thursday and 427 were admitted, according to the state’s COVID-19 dashboard.
SCHOOL SUBJECTS
According to the state panel, there were 111 outbreaks of coronavirus in the school in New Jersey involving 557 students, teachers and staff.
These numbers do not include students or staff who are suspected of being infected outside the school, or cases that cannot be confirmed as outbreaks in the school. Although numbers continue to rise every week, Murphy said statistics on school outbreaks are lower than government officials expected when schools reopened for personal classes.
New Jersey defines school outbreaks as cases where contact detectives determined that two or more students or school staff caught or transmitted COVID-19 in the classroom or during academic activities at school.
The number of school districts in New Jersey with distance education has increased as students return from the winter holidays, Murphy said Monday.
There are 339 districts starting 2021 remotely – an increase of 18 remote districts from 21 December. Only 77 school districts return with full personal tuition (by 82 on December 21), and 348 return with a hybrid of personal or distance education (down from 362).
Another 47 districts use a combination of personal, hybrid or remote control across several buildings – one more than December 21st.
AGE BREAKS OUT
The age group of 30 to 49 years is the largest percentage of New Jersey residents who contracted the virus (31.3%), followed by those 50-64 (23.8%), 18-29 (19.2%), 65-79 (11.2%), 80 and older (5.5%), 5-17 (7.3%) and 0-4 (1.5%).
On average, the virus was more deadly to older residents, especially those with a pre-existing condition. Nearly half of COVID-19 deaths were among residents 80 and older (47.49%), followed by 65-79 (32.29%), 50-64 (15.68%), 30-49 ( 4.14%), 18-29 (0.36%), 5-17 (0%) and 0-4 (.03%).
At least 7,606 of the COVID-19 deaths in the state were among residents and staff members at nursing homes and other long-term care facilities. The number has risen sharply again in recent months, with deaths at the state’s old age homes almost tripling in December.
There are currently active outbreaks at 428 facilities, leading to 6,510 active cases among residents and 7,034 among staff members.
GENERAL NUMBERS
According to Friday morning, there were more than 93.3 million positive COVID-19 tests worldwide, according to a running count from Johns Hopkins University. More than 1.99 million people have died from coronavirus-related complications.
The U.S. reported the most cases, more than 23.3 million, and the most deaths, more than 388,700.
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