Gov Murphy presser: As of Wednesday, 355 people have died from COVID-19 in New Jersey and there are 22,255 confirmed cases.
Another local nursing home in NJ: 5 dead, 16 others infected with suspected cases among patients and 6 staffers.
Once it gets into the nursing home/adult facility setting, it spreads and the mortality rates skyrocket.
Want to try and bend the curve?
National guidelines for all hospitals and nursing home facilities - no visitors and everyone gets screened before entering. Aggressive testing.
There’s that phrase again: aggressive testing. Want to keep people safe, you need aggressive testing. Otherwise, cases will spread into these vulnerable populations and take far more lives.