Today we released “The Road Back: Restart and Recovery Plan for Education."
With this guidance, we’re confident that our students, educators, and staff will walk back into our superb schools in September, where they can safely learn and thrive.
Four Principles of School Reopening Guidance:
🏫Ensuring a conducive learning atmosphere
👩🏫Supporting educational leaders with planning
📚Providing policy guidance and necessary funding to schools
📝Securing continuity of learning
The health and safety of students, staff, and their families will continue to be our TOP PRIORITY.
School reopenings must prioritize:
📏Social distancing
😷Face coverings
👥Limited capacity
🧼Cleaning/disinfecting
Over the past three months, our students, educators, and families have performed heroically.
We’re #JerseyStrong and we’re confident that we can reopen our schools in a way that protects public health while providing high-quality education.
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NEW: All employees in certain health-care facilities and other high-risk congregate settings are required to complete a full vaccination course or undergo regular testing at a minimum of once to twice each week.
Full compliance is required by September 7th.
The vaccination mandate is applicable to the following employers:
☑️Ancora Psychiatric Hospital
☑️Ann Klein Forensic Center
☑️Greystone Park Psychiatric Hospital
☑️Trenton Psychiatric Hospital
☑️Paramus Veterans Memorial Home
☑️Menlo Park Veterans Memorial Home
☑️Vineland Veterans Memorial Home
☑️Developmental Centers
☑️University Hospital
☑️State correctional facilities
☑️Juvenile Justice Commission Facilities
☑️Long-term care and assisted-living facilities
Following yesterday’s announcement by @CDCgov regarding masking, @NJDeptofHealth Commissioner Persichilli and I strongly recommend that both vaccinated and unvaccinated residents wear masks in indoor settings when there is increased risk.
Examples of increased risk situations where masks are recommended include:
☑️Crowded indoor settings
☑️Indoor settings involving activities with close contact with others who may not be fully vaccinated
☑️Indoor settings where the vaccine status of other individuals in the setting is unknown
☑️Where an individual is immunocompromised or at increased risk for severe disease
A quick update on yesterday’s @CDCgov guidance: We will keep our indoor mask mandate in place in public settings as we continue to work toward our vaccination goals. To be clear, we’re making incredible progress, but we’re not there yet.
Today, New Jersey is top ten in vaccinations and the top five in lowest case count. That’s because of the incredible work millions of New Jerseyans have done to mask up, social distance, and most of all, to make the decision to get vaccinated.
One thing is abundantly clear: fully vaccinated people are much safer to engage in everyday life than unvaccinated people. This is even more reason for every eligible New Jerseyan to make the decision to get vaccinated as soon as possible.
NEW JERSEY #COVID19 NUMBERS:
➡️925 new positive PCR tests
➡️881,635 total PCR tests
➡️242 new positive antigen tests
➡️127,458 total antigen tests
The statewide rate of transmission is currently 1.
The positivity rate for the 16,596 PCR tests recorded on May 8th was 4.7%.
As of last night:
➡️1,041 patients in our hospitals
➡️247 patients in our ICUs
➡️162 ventilators in use
➡️139 live patients discharged
➡️99 COVID-positive patients admitted
➡️23 in-hospital deaths
A lifetime in the Catholic Church has taught me about our duty to care for “the least of these,” our most vulnerable.
Today, as I visited our community-based vaccine site at St. John the Baptist Roman Catholic Cathedral in Paterson, I saw this principle in action.
To care for the “least of these” means to center, uplift, and love our most vulnerable.
With our community-based vaccination partnership, we’re bringing the vaccine directly into our underserved communities, ensuring that those hardest hit by this pandemic are not left behind.
In the Gospel of Matthew, Jesus commands us to “Love your neighbor as yourself.”
There is no greater manifestation of this commandment than to roll up your sleeve when it’s your turn. By taking the vaccine, we’re keeping ourselves and our communities safe. That is love.
NEW JERSEY #COVID19 NUMBERS:
➡️2,201 new positive PCR tests
➡️722,997 total PCR tests
➡️421 new positive antigen tests
➡️91,919 total antigen tests
The positivity rate for all PCR tests recorded on March 4th was 7.13% – based on 43,025 PCR tests.
The statewide rate of transmission is 1.06.
As of last night:
➡️1,786 patients in our hospitals
➡️393 patients in our ICUs
➡️237 ventilators in use
➡️179 live patients discharged
➡️175 COVID-positive patients admitted
➡️23 in-hospital deaths