COVID hospitalizations in NJ are up more than 25% in just the last three days, fulfilling dire warnings that by the middle of the month the state could be in the worst position of the entire coronavirus pandemic.
By early Tuesday morning, an industry source told News 4, some 14 of New Jersey's emergency rooms were on varying levels of"divert" status, meaning they were not accepting some or all new patients at that time due to volume, staffing or other complications.
The state is now well past the surge it saw in the winter of 2020/21, and is rapidly approaching the pandemic-era high of just over 8,000 cases in April 2020. Last week the chief physician executive at Hackensack Meridian Health, New Jersey's largest hospital network,by mid-January, and that the network was preparing to implement"crisis standards of care." On Monday, Health Commissioner Judy Persichilli said she'd asked FEMA to send reinforcements for depleted hospital staffs.
Fueling the growing crisis is an out-of-control outbreak of the omicron variant of COVID-19 in the state. Before December 22, New Jersey had never seen more than 7,000 positive tests in a day; it is now consistently reporting well over 20,000 a day. On Monday the state reported another 20,428 PCR-confirmed infections, bringing the total to more than 165,000 in just the last week -- roughly 1 out of every 50 New Jersey residents.
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