Trump. This took place earlier today in albany. Good morning. Lets talk about where we are today, in terms of the data. Total hospitalizations ticked down again. That is good news. We will take it. It is better than going up. Again, this is one day, but it flattening, reducing slightly, depending on your point of view. Are you an optimist, a pessimist . A pessimist would say we are basically flat, optimist would say we are starting to trend down. It is a personality test. Net change in total hospitalizations is on decline. The three day average, which is more accurate than any one day number also says the same. The icu admissions is down. Thats not that telling to me, because the entire hospital is now basically an icu ward. The number of intubations is down. That is very good news. Intubations 80 of the time wind up in a person not recovering. So that is really good news. And the counter narrative, counter fact, number of new cases that walked in the door of a hospital is still about
Thank you for coming, i am joined by the woman to my right the commissioner of, judy and to her right department of Health Medical director doctor ed. Good to have you with us. Into my left superintendent col. Pat callahan. Director of the Department Office of homeland security, we will get right to the numbers and we have a lot of ground to cover. So you could please bear with us. Since our briefing yesterday, we have had 1982 new positive tests bringing our statewide total to 8825. In addition, we have lost another 27 precious souls of our fellow new jersey population to covid19 related complications. We have now lost a total of 108 precious lives. We mourn with these families and indeed with our entire state every precious life that has been lost. God rest their souls and as usual, judy will be giving you more color and the details of these both positive cases as well as General Information about the lives that we have lost. My thoughts indeed our thoughts are also with the women an
Clerk we have a quorum. Item 4 the approval with modifications of the minutes of the meeting set fourth below. This is the regular Meeting Minutes from february 15th, 2020. Are there any corrections to the minutes . Seeing none, ill ask for a motion. I make a motion that we approve the minutes from the february meeting. Second. Any Public Comment on this item . Seeing none. All those if favor say aye. Aye. Any opposed. It has passed unanimously. Item 5, general Public Comment from matters of the boards jurisdiction. Please come forward. I have a comment on the assistance dealing with this coronavirus and the healthcare and they have already got someone that had already got it and would not allow them to even be any lessons because the school and i went to in 200 200r this issue and what they did is that they bribed me and tried to make it work where everything was off base that other things that trying to teach me i was really upset about that because of the healthcare issue and they w
Clerk we have a quorum. Item 4 the approval with modifications of the minutes of the meeting set fourth below. This is the regular Meeting Minutes from february 15th, 2020. Are there any corrections to the minutes . Seeing none, ill ask for a motion. I make a motion that we approve the minutes from the february meeting. Second. Any Public Comment on this item . Seeing none. All those if favor say aye. Aye. Any opposed. It has passed unanimously. Item 5, general Public Comment from matters of the boards jurisdiction. Please come forward. I have a comment on the assistance dealing with this coronavirus and the healthcare and they have already got someone that had already got it and would not allow them to even be any lessons because the school and i went to in 200 200r this issue and what they did is that they bribed me and tried to make it work where everything was off base that other things that trying to teach me i was really upset about that because of the healthcare issue and they w
That will be provided, absolutely. Are you short equipment right now . Every local jurisdiction needs more personal protective equipment. I cannot emphasize how important that is. Given the need to protect our Healthcare Work force. We asked at the federal level for more in terms of what is availability. All local jurisdictions that i have talked to and i am aware of are working under a short supply. This is a key gap in our ability to collectively respond to the epidemic. We are working locally, regionally and state level to develop more uptodate guidelines with regard to what is the necessary protective equipment and also to make sure that we have a clear sense of what is available Going Forward. Personal protective equipment is a vital part of this response, and i want to ensure we are able to keep our Healthcare Workers protected with the best evidence possible so they can do their job. Under the order, take out will continue and coffee take out as long as social distances is maint