Governor Murphy’s April 15 COVID-19 briefing

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Yankees great Goose Gossage prays bleeping liberals ‘go off the cliff’ for attacking President Trump in epic rant

Corna Gossage picked up on the second ring Tuesday afternoon when we called seeking a good story or two from her husband on the death of Yankees managing partner Hank Steinbrenner.

“Rick,” she called out once, twice, three times. “I can’t find him.”

Goose Gossage, aka Rich on most of his baseball cards and Rick to everyone in his hometown in Colorado Springs, Colo., answered on our third call.

As usual, the 68-year-old Hall of Fame pitcher and Yankees legend got off topic and didn’t hold back.Gossage, who is two years into a probable lifetime ban from Yankees spring training coaching and Old-Timers… Read the rest of this entry »

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Joint Chiefs chairman: U.S. probing whether coronavirus escaped a Chinese lab

(USA Features) U.S. intelligence agencies are currently investigating whether the coronavirus may have escaped from a Chinese lab in Wuhan city where research is done on highly contagious diseases, according to the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff.

U.S. Army Gen. Mark Milley told reporters at the Pentagon Tuesday that initial information indicates that the COVID-19 pandemic appears to be a “natural” event that stemmed from animal-to-human transmission.

But he also noted published reports indicating that the virus may have occurred after escaping a research lab.“It should be no surprise that… Read the rest of this entry »

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The world deserves a better, totally transparent and accountable, WHO

By Chris Smith

            Seventy-two years ago, this week—on April 7, 1948—the World Health Organization (WHO) was founded to organize global responses to infectious disease pandemics that respect no national boundaries.

Its effectiveness depends heavily on the good will of its member states, and the competence and trustworthiness of its leadership.

The coronavirus pandemic revealed China’s malign influence on the leadership of WHO, and a glaring accountability and transparency deficit at WHO centered around Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus.

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Colts Neck Community Church is Gathering Gifts To Give

Glen Dalakian, president of Colts Neck Community Church, announced a giving program today and invited all to participate.

Gathering Gifts to Give volunteers will accept Encouragement Gifts for medical personnel and first responders as well as Support Gifts for those in need on Saturday, April 18 from 10 a.m. until 2:00 p.m. and on Sunday, April 19 from noon till 4 p.m. at the Church’s parking lot at 25 Merchants Way, Colts Neck, NJ 07722.

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N.J. coronavirus peak now 11 days away with 16K hospitalizations expected, health officials say

With New Jersey cases and deaths still rising, though at a slower rate, health officials now predict the state’s peak in hospitalizations with the coronavirus will hit 15,922 patients on April 25 — 11 days from now.

State Health Commissioner Judith Persichilli cautioned that the three models the state is using to prepare for the surge in patients change daily with new data and as the state pushes into the fourth week of a stay-at-home orderthat significantly increased social distancing on March 21.

Of the 15,922 people projected to be hospitalized at the new peak, 3,821 are expected to be in crit… Read the rest of this entry »

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Monmouth County has 4,003 positive COVID-19 cases, 145 deaths

Monmouth County has 138 news positive COVID-19 cases on April 14, bringing the total to 4,003, according to an announcement by Freeholder Director Tom Arnone and Deputy Director Sue Kiley. The NJ Department of Heath is reporting that 145 County residents have succumbed to the virus.

The town by town breakdown is as follows:

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O’Scanlon: Time for NJ to reclaim its manufacturing -pharmaceutical industry leadership role

Senator Declan O’Scanlon today called on the Legislature and Governor’s office to coordinate efforts to spearhead a rebirth of New Jersey’s once world-leading manufacturing and pharmaceutical research and production industries.

“The time is right now for New Jersey to be planning to take a lead role in re-domesticating these critical industries” said Senator O’Scanlon. “We still have the educated workforce, we still have incredible research universities, we still have the capital and investment resources and we still have the foundation of industrial knowledge and capability that made New Jersey the pharmaceutical and industrial capital of the world last century.

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Gas Station Owners Ask Murphy to Allow Self-Service During Pandemic

Some attendants are already sick; social distancing is impossible at the pump; stations are cutting back hours or shutting down entirely

By Tom Johnson, NJSpotlight

With gas stations closing as attendants quit because they’re afraid of contracting COVID-19, a trade organization is asking the Murphy administration to lift temporarily the ban on self-service gasoline.

In a series of letters to Gov. Phil Murphy, the New Jersey Gasoline, C-Store, and Automotive Association is urging the state to allow self-service stations as a way of easing the staffing concerns and other issues its members are facing due to the outbreak of the coronavirus.

Attendants at gasoline stations — some of whom have already tested positive for the coronavirus — are walking off their jobs. Owners are trimming back how long the stations are open. Some owners are worried that if the pandemic persists they may end up closing their stations permanently, according to Sal Risalvato, executive director of the association.

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State Distributes ‘Triage Guidelines’ to Allocate Medical Resources If No Other Options Exist

Guidelines call for triage teams to save lives and life-years; Murphy and Persichilli insist no patient would be excluded based on age, race, sex, gender identity and other concerns

By Lilo H. Stainton, NJSpotlight

While there are some signs the impact of the coronavirus may be lessening in New Jersey, state officials have distributed guidelines to help hospitals allocate patient resources if there are widespread shortages of things like ventilators or other critical-care supplies.

State Department of Health commissioner Judith Persichilli said the “triage guidelines” issued Saturday evening would not be activated unless a hospital’s intensive-care capacity was overwhelmed and assistance or supplies could not be provided by another facility in the region.

The document outlines a decision-making framework that a triage team can use to assign a score to patients in need of critical care — whether they have COVID-19 or another condition — based in part on the likelihood of short- and long-term survival. These scores would be used to determine who is allocated resources if there are not enough to go around.

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