An executive order that would allow low risk prisoners to apply for early parole or be placed in home confinement. This is just under 90 minutes. Gov. Murphy good morning, thank you for coming in early. We will be a little bit snappier in terms of pace because we have folks who will be observing good friday beginning at noon. Im going to be joined by the woman up my right, the commissioner of the department of health, judy person kelly. To my left is the Communicable Disease service officer. To my far left, state Police Superintendent colonel pat callahans. Pat callahan. And then the department of Corrections Commission will commissioner, marcus hicks. We are going earlier, so while we have the overnight numbers, i am not sure judy will tell us how deeply we can dig in. We have at least the top line and we will go from there. Let me get into that immediately. Since yesterday, we have been notified that we have 3621 more residents who have received positive test results, so that puts our statewide total at 54,588. Andn, 306,000 27 overnight 3627 overnight and are total at 54 588. Our dashboard, as of 10 00 p. M. Last night we had 7570 residents reported hospitalized, of which 1679 were listed in critical or intensive care. Ventilators were in use. Ending 24 hour period 10 00 p. M. Last night, 682 residents were discharged. That is important note. You can see how many folks are hospitalized, how many of that require intensive care, how many ventilators are in use, and as judy has said, that will bounce around, and it is showing up to piecet way, and, another of evidence that we are at least beginning to see some light, 682 residents who are discharged. Let us flip to a map we have been showing you from time to time. This is the county heat map and it measures the amount of days of doubling of cases, and we first showed this map, it was orange and red, and red would have been the fastest amount of doubling, orange was a little bit slower. The yellow is slower again. This is the first day that we have two counties where we are seeing a new color, which means that it is more than doubling it is doubling at least seven days or more, that is salem county in the southwest where there are cases. Salem has a total of 46 ,ositives and three fatalities and that is good news because that was red a couple of days ago. While the caseload was small, the curve was steep, and that is encouraging. Even more encouraging is bergen county, one light lightly shaded and that has under 9000 cases and 390 fatalities. That is where it hit first, and the fact that it is beginning to show that shape, please god, it continues to. And we have other counties that clock over. Signs, tooood, early early to spike footballs, but those are important signs. As we noted, we may want to go back to the hospitalization numbers. The pulls data as reported by hospitals to the new Jersey Hospital Association is a snapshot and judy wants to remind you of this. This is not a movie, it is a snapshot. Because we are here earlier there may be overnight change is not reflective in that data. The heaviest with of hearts we know that we have lost another 233 of our fellow since yesterday, and the total number stands at 1932. Lost,ree precious lives and now a total of 1932 precious lives lost. Please allow me to tell a couple of very brief stories about a few of these folks. Sanchez,ure is evelyn god bless her. Evelyn and her husband were partners in life, and in their familyowned business, emergency pest control. She is remembered for her generosity and spirit. She was born in vineland and called sparta her home for the past 35 years. Husband,s behind her john, president of the Essex County Latino Chamber of commerce commerce along with her children, grandchildren stepchildren, and stepgrandchildren. She was only 62 years old. God bless you, evelyn. Sam,cgee, there is hansen sam, the handsome first africanamerican elected mayor of hillside. Countyed in the Union Improvement authority among other posts. Adding to his years of Public Service was a career as a High School Age history teacher and 32 years as dean of admissions at new jersey city university. We send our condolences and prayers to his family and friends. There is also dr. Francis who was a physician of four decades, tending to his own practice, serving on the staff thelara mass hospital and Sports Complex as well as working for 30 years for Hudson County prior to his retirement two years ago. Lorraine and daughter andrea, and their family, we join you in mourning his loss and praying for his soul. The conversations that i have had with our families who have lost loved ones to covid19 are not easy, nor is sitting here telling some of their stories easy for any of us. It is nothing compared to what they are going through, both the folks who have left us as well as their family and friends, and we have to remember them. We must recognize the tremendous toll this virus is having on our state and seeing these spaces and hearing names reminds us that behind historic and purse are realonal numbers human beings and families. Inall have a role to play reducing the number of people we lose. We have to keep with social distancing, that is the key to cracking the code and flattening the curve, and getting us to a better place. Remember, when we flatten the curve of the number and people of people infected and we lower the number of intensive care hospitalizations and fatalities. One thing it does lead ultimately and directly to the other. Easter weekend, and i know it is one where we are used to gathering together as we do it passover, we gather at easter to worship, we gather hunts,ldrens easter egg family meals, with friends, we cannot do any of that this year. I feel awful, but we cannot. We have to leave the gathering to face time, zoom, phone calls, texts, and emails. Church,of heading to many will fire up our laptops for a livestream service. Staying apart this year is the surest way you will be able to gather again next easter and the many easter and the many easterners to come. Please, take this to heart and take this seriously. We all must work together. Unequivocally, we will come through this stronger as one new jersey family, together. What we each have to do our part and the 9 million of us need to flatten that curve. Stay home and away from each other which leads to fewer infections and hospitalizations, fewer intensive care unit hospitalizations and fewer loved ones who we will lose. You and me, and the rest of the 9 million of us manage this front while our heroic Health Care Workers and our teams represented by judy, ed, pat, and others will build out the capacity of beds, ventilators, personal Protection Equipment and relief for our heroic Health Care Workers. Togetherose two fronts those lines have to cross at a reasonable level. If we keep it up and stay with it, this easter weekend and every day in the near term near and intermediate term, we will win this together. We know thisrs, Public Health crisis has extended into prisons and commissioner hicks, and i want to give him a shout out, has been attacking it for weeks and will address his efforts in a few minutes in his remarks. Many ofemic has touched our corrections personnel, just as it has those who are incarcerated. A virus this maryland can spread t can spreadirilen quickly in a dense prisons said setting and the needs of Public Safety and health have to be balanced. To that point i got off the phone a few minutes before coming here with a widow of nelson. His wife and i spoke, they are from old bridge. Nelson was 44 years old, a member of pba 105, he leaves behind his wife, their three kids who are 18, 13, and 12. Awful, a guy who left us far too soon. I am speaking about him today because i connected with his wife, maybe we can have a picture of him to make sure everybody puts a name with a face. I spoke with my fellow middletown resident, bill sullivan, who is not only a friend of nelsons, but is the president of pba 105. Memory, his wife, and three kids, our thoughts, prayers, and hearts go out to you. In that respect, today i am signing an executive order to help preserve this balance between health on the one hand and Public Health and Public Safety on the other. Under this order, certain low risk individuals whose current age or Health Status puts them in particular risk for covid19, who had been perhaps denied parole within the last year, whose or who sentences are to expire within the next three months may be placed on temporary home confinement for granted parole if already eligible through an expedited process. I want to stress that no one convicted of a serious crime such as murder, Sexual Assault among others will be eligible for consideration. We are setting up a robust process through which each potentially eligible individual must be determined to be safe to place on home confinement, and each will be required to have an individualized release plan to ensure that they will have access to all necessary services, medical services, and housing. No one who cannot meet the standards will be released. Individuals on home confinement will be subject to department of corrections supervision. We have twined, responsibilities, protecting those who work in our prisons and those who are incarcerated. Social distancing is hard to accomplish in a prison setting, and allowing some of our most vulnerable individuals who do not pose a Public Safety threats to temporarily leave prison will protect both their health and the health and safety of the men and women working in our correctional facilities. We are not the first to do this. New jersey will join several other states including california and illinois, and the federal government, which have taken similar steps, again, i want to give a big shout out to marcus and his team who have been mightily trying to stay ahead of this challenge. When you have concentrated communities from day one, and this is a big important step to allow them to continue to stay ahead. I want to acknowledge the director of homeland security, the deputy counsel. Onto the subject of testing. Tomorrow, april 11, the Bergen CommunityCollege Testing drivethrough site will be open to the public in the pnc Health Care Center will be open to First Responders and Health Care Officials oh only. To receive a test you must be symptomatic, and both sites will be closed on easter sunday. There are 18 other sites around the state publicly available, and you can find a map with all of them by going to ov testing and there are dozens more that your primary care physician can direct you to for a test if you \ 2 to receive a test you must have signs of respiratory illness and you can take a selfassessment on the website go to covid19. Nj. Gov testing. It is anonymous, and not only does it give you some sense of where you might be, that it gives you the information we need to help identify potential coronavirus hotspots before they flare up. That knowledge is critical to ensure Health Care Networks that the supplies they need will be there before they are needed. I want tof supplies, give a huge thank you to unit, it is headquartered in japan, to give another piece of evidence that we are scouring the globe. They delivered a donation of 100,000 muchneeded medical grade masks for our frontline Public Health and safety responders. This is the essence of what it means to be a good Corporate Citizen and we are incredibly appreciative. Thank you. By the way, if you have any ppe to donate, please let us know by going to covid19. Mj. Gov ppedonation. I want to give a big shout out to the Stevens Institute of technology, and my friend for opening their jonas hall dormitory so the folks at Hoboken UniversityMedical Center and Fire Department can have a place to rest and recharge, so thank you to everyone at stevens for thinking about their hoboken neighbors. I said we would be briefed today, including in the q a, but forgive me so because it is good friday. I want to be able to share one more story of the good being done around our state. On this most solemn of fridays, heres something that will lift your hearts. I want to recognize the members of the wyckoff girl scout troop 24. There is a couple of their members. There is a member on their left and a Health Care Worker on the right. After hearing stories of nurses assist nurses about the physical discomfort of their facemasks, the troop took to producing headbands that can be worn under the straps to reduce the discomfort and make life on the job a little bit better. The troop donated their headbands to the Valley Hospital in ridgewood, and there is an example. This is how we are going to get through this. It is both the huge donations of 100,000 masks, and for that we are incredibly grateful, but it is also the little thoughts, like headbands to make them less comfortable less uncomfortable to the professionals who are wearing them for hours upon hours. So, uniclo we thank you, and for members of girl scout troop 34, 24, we thank you. Keep tweeting out the stories of your heres of your heroes. Everyone who is pitching in deserves our thanks. So too does everyone out there doing the right thing to help us flatten the curve, especially with a major Holiday Weekend upon us. This cannot be a weekend to think that we can let our foot off of the glatt off of the gas, youre not even close. We have to keep with it. Every day until this war is won. With it, we will, and you are starting to see some blooms of hope. Look at the amount of people discharged yesterday and the county map. Look at the beginnings of the flattening of that curve of positive tests, and remember, as we have said, with the heaviest of hearts, even though those metrics are beginning to look more positive, we will still lose many folks, sadly, because the folks we are announcing who have lost our lives their lives may have been infected several weeks ago, so we are now seeing the said end to some of the realities that hit us weeks before, but stay with it, we will win this unequivocally, if each and every one of us does their part, and we will from the Little Things like washing hands with soap and water the bigger things, stay home, please, period. Social distancing no matter where you are, including at home, all the way up to the steps we are taking today including the executive order that we are signing today as relates to the corrections facilities. All of these are pieces in a broader puzzle. If we each continue to drop are pieces of the puzzle in place, eventually that will be a beautiful tapestry of r1 new jersey family finally back on its feet, together again and stronger than before. With that, please help me welcome the commissioner of the department of health. Judy thank you, and good morning. I want to take a moment to thank commissioner hicks and all of the support he has given the department of Health Working to protect the safety not only of the totalees, but forensic population, and all of our sister agencies, this is a whole government approach and they are vital to the effort, i think them not only for their support, but what they are doing every day. I want to share information on veteran homes. New jersey has three veteran homes, and they continue to be impacted as well. Today, the total census in the veterans homes in new jersey is 845. The home in menlo park has 16 residents and five Staff Members who have been confirmed as positive covid19. There havelo park, been four deaths of residents directly related to covid19. And, right now, 12 of their residents from that facility are hospitalized. The promise home has 29 who have and 17 staff tested positive. There have been 13 deaths among those residents, that is related to covid19, and currently, eight of their residence are hospitalized. Has noeland location confirmed cases among their residence or staff. As a reminder, there are 845 veterans in these homes. The department of health has been working with the veteran homes, and through our volunteer portal we have been able to support staffing requirements and have sent 15 registered nurses and seven licensed practical nurses to support care in these homes. Medicsnally, 35 combat have been sent to menlo park park and 40 to the promise location. Mentioned,rnor according to data reported from 7570ospitals there are hospitalizations including covid19 positive into persons and those under investigation. 1679 are considered critical and 1663 are currently on ventilators. 3627 new are reporting cases for a total of 54,588 cases in the state. Tested 105 105 individuals, 600 76 676 have returned positive. Sadly, we were reporting 233 of 1932 in a total the state. Deaths, 58 are male, 42 are female. The age range is holding at about 1 under 30 years, 4 between30 and 49, 17 33 ,ges of 50 and 64, and or 631 individuals between the ages of 65 and 79. 5 between the ages of the age of 45 over 80. White, 20 africanamerican. Less than 1 pacific islander. 48 percent have documented diabetes, conditions, cardiovascular disease, cancer being some of the highest reported underlying diseases. I wantith the governor, to thank all of you who are staying home, i know it is tough during the religious holidays when you would normally be congregating for religious services and family gatherings. That while this may be disappointing for many, who look forward to spending time visiting with relatives and friends, it is imperative to continue to stay home to help slow the spread of covid19, so stay home, stay safe, and healthy. Thank you. Gov. Murphy thank you, and thank you for everything. I want to thank the department of healths team forgetting the data a lot more aggressively and earlier than normal. They have a lot of their on their plate. Did you mention, i was going to say what i was looking at in a second. Did you mention hispanic today . Judy i thought i did, let me check. I did not, it is not on there. Gov. Murphy if you ever look at it hads report, you said a listing as usual and you have to do is sort of sideways cross racial assessment as it relates to latino, i do not know how official it is, but i got my first sense of it in the upper teens. Judy 17. 1 . Gov. Murphy would you say this is still early stage in terms of the racial data. That looks earlystage to be about consistent, and i am saying this with the representation of the hispanic population as a general matter, but that is something we want to stay close on. It is the first day we have had that insight, and the africanamerican number for people who said this the entire week, it is running at least 50 over what the representation and africanamerican fatalities, 50 percent over the representation of the Africanamerican Community and the new jersey community. I want to give a huge shout out to our veterans, god bless them, including the ones in the three ours and the veterans and great state, god bless them. I got a note from someone who said you guys never talk about postal workers, and that is partly because postal workers are under a federal aegis, not a state one. But postal workers are out there with diminished ranks, day in and day out delivering the mail, so we have to take our hats off to the women and men in the Postal Service doing that in new jersey and around the country day in and out. Everything. R top five counties, i just want to make sure. Im looking at the total cases, continue to be bergen, essex, son union, and passaic middlesex just clipped in ahead of passaic. They are about similar numbers in terms of positive cases, and middlesex we have probably said less frequently because it has always been right there right behind passaic all week in terms of number of positives, and today it has gone slightly ahead of it. So, thank you. Running, as were said, at about way there have been, north of 34 percent, something that we had expected. We couldve had marcus hicks here any day over the past three or four weeks because he has been leading, proactively and aggressively from the front with one of the most challenging communities in terms of cohabitation and proximity that we have to deal with anywhere in the state. We talked about longterm care facilities, about psychiatric hospitals and homes for the developmentally disabled and, let there be no doubt, our Corrections Community is right up near the top, and marcus, it is great to have you. We would love to get your take on some of the steps you have already taken and any color you have on the executive order that we are signing. Marcus good morning. I want to take the opportunity to recognize the brave men and women of the department of corrections both custody and civilian staff working on the front lines every single day. Courageously, diligently, and behind the scenes to make sure that we are all living out our mission through the unprecedented challenges. I want to thank you for taking time out of your schedules to andact the officers wife, i know that colonel callahan did show that solidarity, certainly a loss, and we mourn the loss of our colleague. As the governor alluded to, the health, safety, welfare of our employees, families, and inmates priorities. We have been in constant communication with the department of health, thank you, commissioner, for your leadership and guidance to to us and your staff moving forward. We have taken significant strides to combat this pandemic, and it starts with cleaning and disinfecting efforts across the board throughout our facilities and for all of our vehicle fleets. We have mandated that each individual who enters into our facilities have Health Screenings and have surgical masks. Mass have been available to our staff since march 14. Ours all staff have been mandated to wear surgical masks at our facilities and Central Office headquarters. We have taken a look at all of our quarantine and isolated areas and ensuring that we have capacity, and staff working in those isolation areas are required to wear ppe, including masks, gowns,95 face shields, to name a few. As far as the inmate population, any inmate exhibiting respiratory symptoms are required to wear ppe as well. We have 129y, today of our Staff Members that have been impacted by this virus. 20 inmates currently in our butem have tested positive, we had one inmate fatality as a result of covid19. Andguidance from the d. O. A. Cdc, any individuals who have common contact or required to quarantine, and we have been following that guidance and continue to follow the guidance as we move forward. We have 400 inmates on medical quarantine, so they are not symptomatic, but they are in quarantine status, as far as our staff is concerned, we have over 1000 of our employees that are owned quarantine status as well. Governor mentioned, you can imagine that, as you are running the correctional facility in a correctional setting that there are unique challenges in trying to Institute Social distancing. However, even with our limitations we have made significant modifications to reduce foot traffic in our facilities, and that has been an essential element to curb the introduction of the disease. One of the first things we did was suspended visitation back in march, and we understand how important it is for our population to have those visits, so we instituted alternatives including free additional postage so they could communicate with loved ones, we increased the number of phone emails toincreased enable alternatives to visits. Krohnt down our volunteer contractors and nonessential vendors from entering the facilities. In terms of our workforce, we home andd work from rotational schedules to significantly reduce or eliminate staff that are entering into the facilities where practicable. Incarcerated population, activities such as recreation, religious gatherings, education have been modified and when it comes to dining, because again following the guidance from doh, we have eliminated communal dining to the extent that we can, and another thing we have done is that we take a look at in and out of facilities, how we are transporting the number of inmates in the number that we are transporting to accommodate social distancing. A couple other things that i wanted to highlight with our intake of county jail inmates into our system. We suspended that, and we did that a few weeks ago. We have extended that to limit the foot traffic. We suspended all of our community inmates details, and we placed a 15 day hold on inmates that enter into our facility to ensure that they are free of covid related symptoms for them to be transferred. Working with external partners such as new jersey state parole board, and i want to thank the chairman who has been a fantastic partner with us, to work with parole so they can conduct their hearings remotely. Is not just the population behind the walls in our jurisdiction, we have 2500 in our Residential Community release programs or Halfway Houses that we are working with every day to ensure that they are implementing some of the same measures that we are doing in our facilities including Health Screenings and temperature scans as well. We are also quarantining them if they have to come back into the facility to ensure that they are not that they do not have symptoms of covid. We have suspended our work release programs as well. I cannot stress enough the importance of our medical team and, not just of the medical staff at dlc, that of our contractor vendor who has been a resource full partner with us, and from a medical perspective, we are doing all we can to mitigate the spread of this disease. One of the things that we have done is that we have eliminated copays from medical exams, we waved to them to create waived them so as not to create a barrier for those individuals who want to seek testing. We have done in person assessments as needed, we transfer people as needed, folks have flulike symptoms or are covid19 screened and evaluated by medical staff and directed to the hospital if they have symptoms such as fever, cough, shortness of breath, and with the guidance of the cdc, that has been resourceful for us. We have, as ient, mentioned, resources such as quarantine and isolation areas, bedsm murray infirmary and negative pressure rooms where we used to keep our population safe. For those inmates that will be released into the community, we continue to offer discharge through our office of Transitional Services to ensure that those who are leaving our custody and going into the communities are placed on the best foot as possible. They are given a health assessment, we are prioritizing Housing Needs of homeless individuals, including working with them to ensure that they have access to general assistance and s. N. A. P. Benefits before they leave our custody. The governor mentioned the thattive order, we believe this is another tool to help us so underthis issue, executive order 120 four, dlc is exerting its authority to grant temporary medical home confinement to our most vulnerable, incarcerated individuals who have not committed a serious offense. This is important, this is not for individuals who created committed a serious offense. Couldour belief that this bestfor their beth health through this plan. This includes medical services and housing services. Be populations we will considering our aged 60 and over, those with highrisk medical conditions based on cdc thoseh guidance, presenting high risk for severe illness and death, and those maxing out in three months and recently considered for parole. Each case will be assessed by an emergency medical home consignment board that will make individual determinations of whether home confinement would better serve an eligible inmate. At this moment, we do not have an exact count of how many individuals this will impact, if there may be duplication between categories, that we will work to generate those lists. Lists to get this process started. Moving forward, we will continue to evaluate our processes and practices to ensure we are attacking this issue as best as possible. We will continue to identify modifications that can be made with one thing in mind, to protect the safety of our staff and inmates and everyone, including the public. With that, i will turn it back over. Gov. Murphy marcus, thank you for even in normal times, i appreciate and we all appreciate your leadership, but thank you for the steps you have taken over the last number of weeks and thank you for leading the process that will come from the executive order i signed it today, which will come to a head to anticipate the process. It will begin in a few days and has a sevenday window. We will have results to report early the week after next. Always great to have you with us. I know it is early in the date for a whole lot of compliance, but anything you have on that or ppe or other matters. Good morning, governor. Thank you. Also in behalf of the state police commissioner, we offer our condolences and more angry urn alongside you over the loss of the officer. With regards to overnight, a subject was stopped under the suspicion of selling stolen goods. He was found to be in possession of stolen goods and turned over to Springfield Police department, where the burglary took place. Roselle police were called to a supermarket because a subject was wearing a mask yelling at customers claiming to have coronavirus. By the time the Police Showed up, they have left but they gave a description of the vehicle and is subject was subsequently stopped in a uhaul truck and found to be in possession of narcotics and also determine the truck he was in was stolen out of newark. Newark Police Department issued 51 order violations and did not do close any instances. In union, an anonymous call resulted in Police Responding and finding an open billiard hall and charging three subjects within that location. In trenton, a subject was cited for the executive order violation for failure to disperse. In union, three subjects were arrested in violation of the executive order and also for burglarizing five vehicles. Since executive order 107 has been in effect across the state, there been 124 incidents that have risen to the level of indictable crime. Beyond compliance, governor, just a quick note we did put out a wind advisory because of the tenting that happens. The bergen site, the fema supported one is temporarily there are 40 cars in the queue as we speak. They are trying to moderate that situation to make sure the tents and the people there and the fence is secured and the people are safe. Beyond that governor, as my , brother at the u. S. Postal he will think i planted that seed in your head so thank you for recognizing our men and women of the Postal Service. Gov. Murphy it may have been your brother sent me the text. It came in untagged. We are supposed to be getting a andm going to say this then tomorrow, we will get a three foot lizard. But we have largely escaped that weather. Please, god, it stays that way. Although my family reminded me during the breifing yesterday that an advisory came in but it was mostly wind yesterday and today and we will keep you posted on that. Martel has been with us every day. We will do this and lets keep it rolling. Tomorrow we will be here at 1 00 we will not be with you on sunday. We will let you know by paper and virtual release of any data that we have gotten. The only exception to that would be if there is something we think is material and i will volunteer to get with you. But otherwise we will see you on monday. Monday is scheduled for 1 00 p. M. Because we do not have insight into the white house schedule at this point. If that does come to pass, we may shift the time on monday so please bear with us. Thank you, martel appeared you have been here every day. Brian, you are up. Several questions, one dealing with the plan to transfer either Covid Patients or nonCovid Patients, i have a message from one nursing home in wayne that says we were asked to admit 62 covid positive from paramus and another 50 from somerset. I turned them all down. How realistic and how practical in light of that sort of thing is that plan. In some of the Nursing Homes, staying on that topic, many are on the medicare ratings and they are low in extremely low, whether Health Inspections or overall rating or staffing. Also when i went online to medicare. Gov, much below average. Some of them are as good as average in some ratings. Basically, why are they allowed to operate with these very low scores from the u. S. Government question mark from the u. S. Government . Then there is the issue of whether people have died and have not been tested how can you give any closure to people who want to know, was a virus infested home or the guy in the room next door or the bed next to me was tested earlier and was positive and yet you are saying, we may have for example military affairs saying 37 people could have died based on statistical model or youre only saying 13. What about those that are not test it tested . And the obvious question is if , youannot test the dead kits, waste the kids, are you trying to develop some sort of historical model, as military affairs did come for all of these homes is to say welcome any nursing home might have three people die every month. They had 12. We only know of three positives. We have to assume that six of those were also. May i just say one thing . You are going to get the bulk of this for obvious reasons. We have said this from day 1 that longterm care facilities have been an area of focus. And they continue to be. Judy will go through the answers. We are not alone in this front. This is a particular we do the national postmortem and the new jersey postmortem facilities and they will be at or near the top of the list. We are going into this really challenging reality. I am going to start at the beginning. It is great question. What we are finding is a realistic plan on monday becomes not very easy to carry out on friday when the number of organizations and facilities with at least one covid positive case has just increased exponentially. We are at the point now where we are going through every 375 of the homes to determine if they can cohort appropriately so that residents would stay in place and also cohort the employees. Also to management the move from the positive to the nonpositive to try to make sure everyone thats the care they deserve and that we are not transmitting the disease. It is becoming a daunting task. But we are continuing it. What we are going to Pay Attention to his first those who can cohort good we have Nursing Homes that cannot cohort. There are two things that we need to do, make sure they had the ppe to take care of all of their patients in the same way, which means considering that everyone is a potential covid19 and then we have to make sure they have the staff. To see if we can support those who are dreamily stressed and they are primarily in the north and there are a lot of them. I dont want to sugar coat what is going on with the Nursing Homes but we are on it fulltime but it is going to be very difficult. How about the medicare ratings . The ratings they looked at a variety of indicators. With medicare, we do inspect those organizations during we go out within 24 hours for any complaint that is considered what they call immediate jeopardy. For those, we are getting complaints right now on specific Nursing Homes that are considered higher risk and we are getting ppe for our staff to actually go onsite to those Nursing Homes to determine what is going on. I do have to say, it is not one. There are a lot that we have concerns about. So covering them all, some will have to be remotely because we just dont have the staff. Our staff, which are licensed registered nurses are being deployed into hospitals and testing sites. This is a daunting task but we are on it. The frail and vulnerable of our Nursing Homes, we knew from the getting, were going to be at risk and the statistics are proving that they are. Let the governor said, it is not just a statewide issue, it is a national issue. We just have to take care of them as best as we can. The historical model im going to let ed talk about that. There is a statistic we are keeping in mind for our report of how it can we be more predictive about what will occur. Maybe ed can share his thoughts. It is important to know what is causing the outbreak and we always want to do testing to figure out what is going on could once you know what is causing the outbreak, and this is true with other outbreaks such as flues public dont require that everybody who has symptoms go ahead and get tested. We also dont tell facilities they cant test. So we are not telling any facility not to test somebody think has covid. But if you have the capability and the supplies and all that to go ahead and test and you can. We do count those people separately in what is sort of a probable category. We do a confirmed separate from the probables but we do keep track of that. Overall, we are well aware that while we certainly try to keep track because we think it is important, we know we are missing people and we cannot count every person who dies of covid for a variety of reasons. We try to do our best. There are a small number of people that we cause as covid deaths who probably didnt die but who had covid and died of something else. So the numbers will never be perfect. We think we are doing a pretty good job and are close but we are never going to say it is absolute accounting. Gov. Murphy we have to keep moving because we promised. We talk about data and homes and positive tests and strategies and policies that i want to make sure that everyone knows that they have family and friends and we are doing everything we can and there is no price too high with limited resources and a once a century onslaught, everything we can to save every life we can. On demographics what percentage of people do we know race and underlying conditions and why was Underlying Health conditions removed from the portal . Can you go through each underlying condition and give the percentage of people and how many cases we have percentage for . Are they going to a home or a longterm care facility . Have any hotels or dorms been taken over for recovering patients . And on Nursing Homes, have there been any relocations or longterm care facilities where they have been so many deaths and is there a state task force about beds and availability. Gov. Murphy i know that on underlying conditions, you had 990. I think ed has the breakdown. Gov. Murphy we have 990 of the total, 1932. Just over half . As far as the breakdown goes, a few general things. We get more and more information on people who dont. It comes in the slowly and we have a general rate down this far as what happens. Hypertension comes as a cardiovascular disease and it is very common in the country, but we dont have an exact breakdown of how many people have say hypertension versus others. Gov. Murphy he said it was taken down from the portal. I am not sure. We have a general breakdown on the percentage of the 990. It is 29 cardiovascular disease, 50 other chronic diseases. 17 diabetes. We know how prevalent diabetes is, 10 other chronic lung disease, 7 chronic renal, 7 neurologic. 6 cancer and then there is another category. Gov. Murphy what else . I missed a couple of your questions, i apologize. On modeling, what does it show about the peak, particularly in how prepared are not are the hospitals as far as discharges . Are they going home or to longterm care facilities . Have you taken over any hospitals or hotels or dorm for recovering patients . And then on Nursing Homes, have there been relocations for longterm care facilities where there have been so many deaths . And is there beds and availabilities for those . Gov. Murphy we will have to make the question shorter because we will run out of time. Do you want to hit any of those . In terms of the discharges from the hospitals, that is a stepwise process. At this point, we do expect 20 to 25 of the discharges to be in the medical station by this afternoon. We were hoping to take those people with low acuity perhaps to be discharged in three or four days and have them in the field medical. Concurrent with that, we are bringing up some hotels for those individuals that perhaps have tested positive and need to quarantine and do not have a home. Our situation allows them to isolate or quarantine to the number of days they would go to a hotel. We are working to bring up some of those hotels. I dont know if we have anybody in the dorms but we do have a number of dorms that are available throughout the state that is primarily for healthcare workers who for whatever reasons maybe they are in quarantine and cannot go home to protect their family, they can stay at a dorm or one of the hotels. There is a will series of Spaces Available not only for patients but also for the healthcare workers. Slowly, they are coming into those spaces. Gov. Murphy how about peak . At this point with the Predictive Modeling we have and in conversations with hospitals, we believe they will be able to handle the peak in terms of available bed spaces, particularly critical care. They have all increased their available spaces. We have to make sure they had the available staff. And then the ppe and the equipment. We monitor every day how many hospitals have to go on divert and primarily they are going because of workforce at this point. Gov. Murphy we think we can withstand the amount of beds, but if we take our foot off of the gas, you can fill that statement out the window. We have got to stay home until further notice. We cannot think that we are in the end zone. We are not close to the end zone. Judy makes another point, it is beds and ventilators and ppe and healthcare workers and medicines that allow it to take place. You had a question on Nursing Homes . Have there been any relocations or facilities with have been so many deaths that they need to be closed . Do you have a dashboard on nursing . On Nursing Homes information . One total relocation. Saint joes. That facility has been totally cleaned and decontaminated and we will work with the sisters after the holiday to bring that back up. Gov. Murphy thank you. Governor, you have constitutional borrowing power without voter approval during times of war or acts of god. Is that a possibility for this budget process . Also, we ask this every day how many New Jerseyans are in Nursing Homes, how many patients are positive and how many have died . Can you please include this on the portal every day . Finally, you have identified the veterans homes and the numbers of cases of deaths for both employees and residents. Yesterday the Health Commission referred to three Nursing Homes that are under additional state scrutiny. Like the veterans homes, they no doubt receive taxpayer money in the form of medicare and medicaid and with all due respect to the veterans homes, new jersey nursing home counts are far larger. They touch more lives why the transparency distinction between the nursing home and veteran homes . Can you please identify those private Nursing Homes under scrutiny and if not explain why. On the Constitutional Authority to borrow, everything is on the table. You are actually correct in your assessment that is a power that we have and something we are looking closely at. Nothing more to report than that. Secondly, i think not only god bless our veterans but god bless everyone who is in these. I think there was a significant amount of focus, rightfully, at the paramus home that came up over the past couple of days, but i dont want anyone out there to think we are in a prioritization. We can salute our veterans and thank them for their service to our nation and do the very best we can to take care of them and we will do that. On the other hand, to the populations in nursing facilities and longterm care cilla tease, generally we had the same obligation and we will do everything we can to meet that. In longterm care, it is about 60,000 or you could compare that with the number of cases currently that are positive for covid, which is about 4000 have it right here. 4179 individuals. We look at every single one of them. We know exactly how many and with the census is and how many staff tested positive and how many residents test positive and how many are under investigation and how many are showing respiratory symptoms other than covid and how many deaths directly related to covid19 and how many deaths are overall. We look at that every single day. [inaudible] how many deaths and explain why you not identifying the three Nursing Homes that are under state scrutiny that you mentioned . I am not sure of the three that we are talking about that were under scrutiny. I dont know which ones we have mentioned other than those in the press and may have been responding directly to elizabeth and that nursing home was in the process of being closed. Paramus,joes, veterans . I dont have my remarks from yesterday but the ones i usually respond to are the ones that i think well have followup questions because they have already been identified in the press. Gov. Murphy we can come back and give you more color on this. I think the reason why we may not have numbers is we want to make sure the numbers are right. You are asking for similar numbers on hospitalizations for a number of days before we felt comfortable putting those up and we want to make sure we put them up we get it right and you can follow up on that. Just one question. [inaudible] you said the folks that died overnight or longterm care facilities. Out of the total number of patients on ventilators in new jersey how many of them are covid19related and how many, do have less available in the state that are unused for either covid19 or any other illness . I dont have the breakdown, i just have covid19 and how many are on ventilators. Gov. Murphy and you are asking how many are left in the state inventory . [inaudible] gov. Murphy we dont have that we will come back to you. [inaudible] gov. Murphy i dont know what number for either. We have some amount left but we are also assuming the need is going to go up and we will not at the moment have enough. I dont have a number for you. We will come back if we do have a number. Thank you. Real quick if we could. There still looking for fidelitys overnight. Just did not want to interrupt. 70 of the 233 deaths, 71 were associated with longterm care facility clusters are outbreaks. Clusters or outbreaks. Gov. Murphy where did you go . Hold on one second. With the peak expected as soon as sunday, how is the state preparing emergency staff and vehicles for a possible surge in patients over the weekend . Commissioner, could you explain the growth rate and doubling rate and the trend you will see and the difference between those two figures. Governor, where houses have been deemed essential work. Is there any oversight of warehouse conditions and would you consider changing requirements for what is considered an essential product or warehouse . Why havent the hours of those working in the Unemployment Office been extended . Viewers are saying they are closed and the dialin center is closed, even though there was a backlog. So this week was a short week to process claims. Gov. Murphy vehicles, pat, do you have any comment on that . We are expecting the peak as early as sunday. Is there any statewide plan for preparing staff and vehicles and is there a surge in anything done to prepare for that . If youre talking about ambulances, we have 50 basic life support ambulances and 20 private life support ambulances that are staging at the Meadowlands Metlife stadium under the leadership of the new jersey ems task force. Gov. Murphy im not going to question the data as to when we peak, please, god, dont wake up monday morning and behave differently. We will let you know when you can behave differently. We are doing this for your protection and safety. Changing the definition of essential, we put the directive out the day before and we expect people to follow it. It is an executive order. What amount of resources we have to spotcheck that, to be determined. If you think that your employer or if you have a complaint about someone who is not, go onto the website and let us know. That has been very effective. As far as the Unemployment Office, i get input from both sides. You can lay people off in government, and the answer is we need government more than ever before. And also why are they working longer hours . We are doing our best there they have lives as well and families who are home from school and homeschooling and remote learning. They may have challenges in their own family in terms of illness. We are doing our best to find our way through this. I was going to ask and the number of questions from people related to Unemployment Insurance and getting through. That is never a question. We are breaking any prior record by 10 times in the country and state. We have now broken into the Great Depression in terms of unemployment ranks. No one will lose a penny as a result and will not lose the federal benefit that has been added onto the cares act. Trending rate versus doubling rate . How do you look at those . We look at the doubling time, which is the number of hospitalizations to double at a current rate, and that tells us a lot about the severity of the patient and the condition of the patients coming in to the hospital. Our doubling time for all covid hospitalizations as of last night was 18. 6. The day before it was 28. 8. So when mark does not make a trend but we want the doubling time certainly to increase rather than decrease we want infection rates to decrease. For the hospitals we look at the doubling time of hospitalizations. The monger that is the better it is. Gov. Murphy and while the trend in positive testing is looking like it is flattening, it is still going up. Infections are still increasing in the state. The fed announced yesterday for the first time they would start purchasing state and federal debt. Has that been utilized and if so where . On state collaboration, have you spoken specifically with Governor Cuomo about purchasing ppe and ventilators to the nga and are you participating in that consortium has, pledged to make the Antibody Test being able to new jersey . Gov. Murphy all things are on the table. It is unusual and historic and something we are looking closely at. I will let pat callahan answer in a minute. I speak to Governor Cuomo all the time. I have not had a specific question but we would absolutely be interested in participating in thatz and we have not had a specific discussion about the antibody work that new york state is doing what we have the directional discussion about meeting to coordinate as we get back on our feet, just as we have shutting down. In antibody is part of that in the sense that we have the right Health Care Infrastructure at our disposal, not just in new jersey but certainly in our region. Ask the processes in place. Work with the division law and the attorney generals office. Have identified those ventilators. Gov. Murphy thank you. Driveby bridges and parades, should they stop . I know some local police have asked for them to stop. Regarding inmates how can you assure that you are doing everything you can to protect them . How is the doc determining who gets tested and what would they suspect would be the number of tests if more readily available . The state Supreme Court suggested the doc meet with the Public Defenders Office to talk about possibly releasing inmates. Do you plan to do that . Gov. Murphy on the driveway birthdays and parades we have to be careful. On one level it is very emotional when you see funerals and the firefighter who passed in passaic, pretty darn emotional. As are the ones where, you may have seen, i think it was on cnn and they showed a nurse in montclair returning home and se socialbors en mas distancing but applauding. I think it just lets the acknowledgment of something that passed. But we just want to be careful because we want people to stay home. If you are in your car alone but you are still going out. We have to this in moderation. I will let marcus enter the corrections. On the last question, i am signing an executive order to put a process in place for folks to be released. It is not a release, it is much more equivalent to a furlough. What are we calling it, marcus . Emergency medical home confinement. In terms of information and how we are getting the message out there are a couple of things that are available. Our website has frequently asked questions. These are the questions that we have been asked many times regarding the actions that we take to mitigate covid19 that is on our website and open to the public. As far as employees are concerned, we sent out daily updates to every employee and giving them the information as to the number of positives throughout the system. As far as testing is concerned, as i said previously, everything we do is based upon direction of medical and cdc guidance. When it comes to testing, we are screening folks who have symptoms such as fever, cough, shortness of breath. They are being sent to the hospital for testing. We believe that right now we are following prudent medical guidance and will continue to do so as we manage this crisis. Gov. Murphy thank you. Good morning, governor. This is probably no day from new jersey spotlight. We ask for a little leeway because it has been getting information out of the department of corrections to date. I have two generic questions one is, do you plan to continue to release data based on hispanic origin and break that out of the white and the black . Gov. Murphy we would hope to releasere only going to data that we are confident in. The second one is, some resignedve apparently because of very difficult conditions. They were told there not allowed to resign during an emergency. Is that correct . Gov. Murphy judy . I dont have any information on that. We are not aware of any restrictions preventing resignation at this time. Governor murphy it is news to us. If you have specific instances not for now but maybe we could take a look at the specifics. In terms of corrections we have been hearing from staff and people in Halfway Houses. These are just some of the things there are multiple people who are inmates who are coughing, who have fevers and are not being tested. They have been told they do not need a test. At the Halfway Houses, people are not even i guess there are daily health logs and they are no longer even asked to fill these out and are no longer being given a temperature test. There are people coughing. There are rooms where 60 people 16 people are living in the same room. There is no way for them to be social distancing. Again, why are more people not being tested and just in general, why has this taken so long . People had made people have been warning that this is been happening here just a week ago, i think you had maybe 30 positive cases among staff and no inmates. Now you have more than tripled that. Gov. Murphy is that basically what the gist is . May i just say this . How many states in america have done what we are about to do . Seven states. Gov. Murphy seven plus the feds. I would say it may have been weeks weve been hit with a tsunami and i think marcus and his team, relative to other states, an extraordinary job that does not mean we all that every day. 1000 it doesnt mean we cant do better and it doesnt mean we dont care. Not only do we need to care is one human for another regarding other circumstance, and the more coldblooded answer is if we dont break the back of this virus unless we bring all of us together. If youve been having issues getting information, that is something you can kick up. We have been very transparent throughout this entire process. To address specifically the rc rps it is my understanding that the temperature checks are still happening. Health logs are still being implemented. We have compliance checks from staff and we have one today at 7 00 p. M. Everything was operating as it was supposed to be. We will continue to monitor that. If you are hearing things, please let us know. In terms of testing, as i mentioned, the testing protocol we have implemented particularly, if anyone is feeling symptoms, because those in the community are still under our jurisdiction, there is a process in place. They contact our regional facility and triaged. If they have to go to the hospital on 911, they have to go. If they come into a facility for additional screening, we have that as well. I dont believe that really anybody can make the point that they dont have access to health care if they have symptoms or if they want to move forward with testing if they are symptomatically. Gov. Murphy if you know of specific situations and specific persons and places, get them to us. We cant we strive to back 1000 but it is frankly hard to do that and we are doing the best we can, but thank you for asking. Charlie, you are going to clean up. Charlie the four staterun psychiatric hospitals, have there been any deaths . Sad to hear about the death of the corrections employee and the inmate. Can you give us the name, age, and the facility where the person was . Is it known how he or she got infected . And also want to do here about the relationship with rutgers or you mentioned some sort of arrangement that i would like to hear more. Gov. Murphy let me just say this. Judy, can you take the psychiatric hospitals and facilities . I am not sure we want to say that or know that. You just have to bear with us. The name of the corrections officer i already mentioned. I dont know the name, but for privacy reasons. I would not fill comfortable i would not feel comfortable disclosing the name of the inmate. I will not do that. It was at new jersey state prison. Gov. Murphy the age of the corrections officer as i understand was 44. Yes. What was the other question you asked . Rutgers is a contracted medical provider, so they are responsible for all of the physical care we work closely with them. They are advising us, along with doh on how we are moving forward and treating patients and how we are responding to the pandemic. Gov. Murphy will have judy address the psychiatric hospitals. On individual cases, we have to balance, as you can imagine, privacy concerns with making sure folks out there and every one has information they need to live their lives in the safest way also will. Judy i have the statistics not with me but i will send them on. I will get them to you this afternoon. I just dont have them. Gov. Murphy i have a new mask with jersey colors and it is a little snug so im going to put this on as i walk out. I want to thank everyone for being with us. Our commissioner, and our doctor, thinking for being here. Pat callahan, thinking for your leadership. Marcus, it was good to have you looking at a few loose ends that we need to look at and we will do. We find it imperative to shut down before noon and it is five minutes before noon. We will see you at 1 00 tomorrow we will not see you on sunday for the time being, we will see you at 1 00 on monday and that will be subject to the white house. As you celebrate and observe the holidays, today is the most solemn day in the christian calendar for most and for those celebrating this weekend, happier reality of easter and resurrection and for those cell reading passover and for those living your lives, please stay home. Please keep your distance from others please have the memories from the past and know that we will have the ability to do that again in the future for many, many years and decades to come. Please stay home and keep your distance. You can see the early data that we are beginning one foot in front of the other and this is beginning to pay off. We are not in the end zone yet. Someday we will get there assuming all 9 million of us continue doing what we need to do. We will unequivocally get there and come together again as one new jersey family, stronger than ever before. Thank you all. During fridays Coronavirus Task force briefing, President Trump and dr. Anthony fauci responded to and in federal projection. Entire watch the briefing at cspan. Org. After that, brief comments after the head of the World Health Organization emphasizing the origins of countries not restrict not lifting restrictions to quickly. There has been reporting today that the new federal projections about the new federal projections suggesting lifting the 30 day shelter in place orders and how they may lead to a spike in infection. Have you seen those projections . When did they say this would take place . They said it would take place if the 30 day shelter in place was lifted. They have not seen it. I guess they leaked it to mbc. They did not leak at. It was from hhs and doj. Do want to say something, tony . Fauci i have not seen it. I have been here all day. What i think they are talking about is that whenever you pull you would expect that you might see an increase in cases. When you see that, that is when you want the resources to efficiently in realtime identify, isolate, con contact, entries. Dont let anyone get any false ideas. When we decide we are going to relax some of the restrictions, there is no doubt we will see cases. The question is how we will respond to them. Should americans have to decide between staying healthy and going back to work . I think we are going to do both. We are going to go back to work and stay healthy. Inying healthy is proportion. If you look at what we are doing, we are looking at a date. We are not doing anything until we know the country will be healthy. We dont want to do this over again even though it would be on a smaller scale. I know that some countries are already planning to transition out of stayathome restrictions. Seeefinitely want to restrictions lifted. At the same time, lifting restrictions to quickly could lead to a Deadly Research is. The way down can be as dangerous as the way up if not managed properly. Concerned byularly the large number of infections reported among workers. In some countries, there are reports of up to 10 of Health Workers being infected. This is an alarming trend. Risk,ealth workers are at we are all at risk. On wednesday, i mentioned the new United Nations supply Chain Task Force to coordinate and scale up the procurement and distribution of personal including equipment oxygen to the countries that need it most. This initiative will be corneille did. Will be corneille did. We estimate the supply chain will need to cover more than 30 of the worlds needs. Every month, we will need to shift at least 100 million medical masks and gloves. N95o 25 million respirators, faye shields, and gown face shields and gowns. 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