COVID hospitalizations in NJ are up 67% in a week, and the relentless omicron surge is only getting worse, with a new single-day case record. The state reported 31,391 new positive PCR tests, the first time NJ has topped 30,000 confirmed daily cases.
It's the eighth straight day the state has reported 20,000 or more positive tests; two weeks ago, New Jersey had never exceeded 7,000 in a single day.
As of Tuesday 5,464 people were hospitalized with COVID in the state -- the highest since May 2, 2020 and up almost 2,200 people in just a week. The state is now well past the surge it saw in the winter of 2020/21, and is rapidly approaching the pandemic-era high of just over 8,000 cases in April 2020.
Last week the chief physician executive at Hackensack Meridian Health, New Jersey's largest hospital network, by mid-January, and that the network was preparing to implement"crisis standards of care." On Monday, Health Commissioner Judy Persichilli said she'd asked FEMA to send reinforcements for depleted hospital staffs.
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