Line for the National Guard. The National Guard is on the streets and we want to know what you think. National guard, your line is. 202 7488000 activeduty military, army, navy, air force, marine. We want to know what you think the role of the military is during civil unrest. Your numbers going to be 202 7488001. Our veterans. If you have served in the armed forces, we want to know what you think. Your numbers going to be 202 7488002. If you dont fit in any of those categories, the number for everyone else is going to be 202 7488003. Keep in mind you can also text us at that number. And you can always reach us on social media, on twitter and on facebook. Again, there has been a big question going on in the military right now about what their role is during civil unrest in the United States. There is a story in the Washington Post this morning that talks directly about this. Is coming upthat between the military and the commanderinchief. Here is a story from the post. The pentagon has to
We will be plotting these numbers over a timeline. We believe and hope that this will put some of the daily numbers into a broader and better context. First, here we go. Here are the raw numbers. 3026 neware reporting confirmed test result and the statewide total is now 81,420. 10 00 hospitals as of p. M. Last evening, 7718 residents were hospital his eyes hospitalized. Two thousand 24 were in critical 1641 ventilators were in use. 90 patients are at one of our field medical stations and for the 24 hour period ending at 10 00 p. M. Last evening, 814 residents were discharged from our hospitals. Lets do this differently and put these numbers into proper context. The first graph we are showing rate of growth of new cases over the past 21 days. As you can see, we are flatten the curve. This is a credit to each and every one of you who has taken to heart our aggressive social distancing measures and who continue to do your part so thank you. Again, these are dailies. The bars are the amoun
He also spoke about the need to continue the states mitigation guidelines, the need for more medical professionals, and stressed the difference between the flu and covid19. Gov. Murphy good afternoon. We with me today is the commissioner of the department of health. A guy right, the guidance who is getting into that same category of not needing introduction, Communicable Disease Service Medical director, dr. Ed lifshitz. It is good to have you with us. To my left, a guy who needs no introduction, the superintendent of the state police, col. Callahan. We have the director of the department of homeland security, and the deputy counsel here to help us answer your questions. We are going to do the daily numbers a little bit differently today and see what you think, if this is helpful, we think it might be. If so, we carry it forward. Typically, we give the raw data of the overnight numbers all of which are reported on our data dashboard covid19. Nj. Gov. We will continue to do this. We wil
Announcer next, Governor Phil Murphy gives an update on the coronavirus update with state health officials. Speaking from new wark, this is n hour and a half. Governor murphy thank you. Sorry for being a few minutes late. I want to say good afternoon to everybody. Our thanks to Rutgers Newark for allowing us to use their space for todays briefings. So to nancy cantor and her whole team a big shoutout and a big thanks. Tomorrow, we will be in trenton at 2 00 p. M. At the war memorial. And so well be trying to give you at least one days advanced notice as to where you will find us. As this now routine, i am joined by the woman who needs no introduction the director of the partment of health, judy persikeli. And colonel pat callahan and we are joined again and i welcome him back to pats left by the departments of Health Communicable disease medical dr. Edward leftshif. Good to have you back. Before we get to the latest testing results, ive got a few announcements and updates on what weve
I want to say good afternoon to everybody. Our thanks to Rutgers Newark for allowing us to use their space for todays briefings. So to nancy cantor and her whole team a big shoutout and a big thanks. Tomorrow, we will be in trenton at 2 00 p. M. At the war memorial. And so well be trying to give you at least one days advanced notice as to where you will find us. As this now routine, i am joined by the woman who needs no introduction the director of the partment of health, judy persikeli. And colonel pat callahan and we are joined again and i welcome him back to pats left by the departments of Health Communicable disease medical dr. Edward leftshif. Good to have you back. Before we get to the latest testing results, ive got a few announcements and updates on what weve been up to. Before i do that, i want to give Sheila Oliver a shoutout who is running the d. C. A. As fast as furiously as ever before, the Lieutenant Governor and i made a decision some number of days ago that we would div