17 inmates test positive for coronavirus in Hudson County jail, official writes to colleagues
Updated Dec 25, 2020;
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At least 17 inmates at the Hudson County jail recently tested positive for the coronavirus, according to an email a jail official wrote on Christmas Eve to colleagues.
Eight of those cases were apparently newly reported on Christmas Eve. Each of the 17 are “showing no complications,” the jail’s Deputy Director Michael Conrad wrote in the email.
Sixteen of the individuals who tested positive are county inmates and one is a federal inmate, the email says. Each is being housed in isolation as are inmates who they came into direct contact with.
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Bernard Hartnett Jr, former Hudson County executive, 91
Updated Dec 24, 2020;
Posted Dec 24, 2020
Enjoying cocktail hour at the 1995 Night on Broadway gala for the Garden State Cancer Center at the Parsippany Hilton are, from left to right: Dr. Franklyn Gerard, Cancer Center Board of Trustees Member; Congressman Robert Roe, D-8; and Bernard Hartnett, Cancer Center Board of Trustees chairman. (Star-Ledger file photo)Frank Conlon
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Bernard Michael Hartnett Jr., an active member of the New Jersey political and legal scenes and a former interim Hudson County executive, died Tuesday at his summer home in Avon-by-the-Sea. He was 91.
Hartnett, a graduate of St. Peter’s Prep and St. Peter’s College, earned his law degree from Seton Hall University. He worked as a lawyer for decades, including stints with the New Jersey Bell Telephone Company and Western Electric Company.
December 22, 2020 at 5:06 PM
HUDSON COUNTY - Healthcare professionals will have the capacity to vaccinate up to eight patients every 15 minutes at the USS Juneau Center, Office of Emergency Management, the site of Hudson County’s first COVID-19 vaccination site, officials shared Tuesday.
Capacity can be increased to up to 16 doses every 15 minutes as efforts to provide the recently approved Moderna vaccine expand to other categories of Hudson County residents, David Drumeler, Hudson County’s Deputy Business Administrator, told reporters.
Set to be operated by the Hudson Regional Health Commission (HRHC), the well thought out operation begins with a pre-registration process that will bring those seeking to be vaccinated to the site by personal automobile. After being directed by sheriff’s officers cars will be let in through bay doors eight at a time, each driver parking beside one of the stations set up and shutting off their engines. After being administered an injection,
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Hoboken held its annual Christmas tree lighting virtually this year in uptown Hoboken with the Hoboken Business Alliance.
DeGise quarantined
Hudson County Executive Tom DeGise is now under quarantine after his Chief of Staff Craig Guy tested positive for COVID-19.
DeGise tested negative and awaits additional results.
Guy and the rest of the staff are being tested, quarantining, and working remotely.
Another Hoboken death
A man, 60, died from COVID-19, bringing the city’s total deaths to 33.
“When getting a COVID-19 test after a possible exposure, wait at least five to seven days from the exposure date to get a test,” said Mayor Ravi Bhalla.