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Mayor James Davis gave the weekly COVID-19 video update on March 11.
This week, neither Mayor James Davis nor the Bayonne Office of Emergency Management (OEM) specified the exact number of active COVID-19 cases. As of March 4, there were approximately 130 residents positive for the virus.
However, active COVID-19 cases are down, according to Davis. He said that Health Officer Michele O’Reilly noted that the city has recently been witnessing a decrease in the number of active cases and the rate of positivity.
The number of hospitalizations has been fluctuating in the teens, as most residents recover at home. There were 11 COVID-19 patients at Bayonne Medical Center as of March 11. OEM does not have data on Bayonne residents in other hospitals.
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OEM Coordinator Junior Ferrante gave the weekly COVID-19 video update on March 4.
Bayonne is readying for an expansion of its COVID-19 vaccination efforts, according to Bayonne Office of Emergency Management (OEM) Coordinator Junior Ferrante. The city has been vaccinating eligible residents since the first doses of the Moderna vaccine were distributed to hospital personnel at Bayonne Medical Center last December.
According to Ferrante, the city had been receiving only enough doses to vaccinate around 100 residents per day. That number has increased recently as the city’s supply has expanded.
“With the recent modest increases in our dosage allotments, we are now scheduling approximately 120 residents per day,” Ferrante said. As of last week, Ferrante said the city had vaccinated approximately 6,000 residents.
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Dr. Singh administers the first dose of the Moderna vaccine to a hospital employee on Dec. 22.
In an interview with the
Bayonne Community News, Chief Hospital Executive at Bayonne Medical Center Dr. Vijay Singh detailed the current state of the COVID-19 vaccine rollout.
Singh said the city has been administering vaccines to eligible residents at two sites, BMC and the RWJBarnabas satellite hospital on Broadway.
How vaccines are allotted
Vaccines are distributed from the state, to, county, and then to municipalities based on utilization. Doses are distributed based on the number of vaccines administered in the previous week.
If BMC received 100 vaccines, it needs to use 75 percent of those doses in three days or 100 percent in seven days, Singh said. That way, the allotment will remain at 100 doses. Singh said that allotments may increase if all doses are used within that time period.
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Michele O Reilly gave the weekly COVID-19 video update on Feb. 25.
The weekly COVID-19 video update was provided by Bayonne Health Officer Michele O’Reilly on behalf of Mayor James Davis.
“I’m proud to say the members of my team have performed heroically throughout the pandemic,” she said.
According to the Bayonne Office of Emergency Management, there were less than 180 active cases as of Feb. 25.
“And this number is very promising,” O’Reilly said. “We continue to see a steady week over week decline in cases.”
The number of active cases has dropped from under 300 on Feb. 19. Since the beginning of the pandemic, 114 residents have died from COVID-19.