New Jersey is about to spend hundreds of millions of dollars developing the health care infrastructure it needs to begin reopening its economy, Gov. Phil Murphy said Tuesday
“None of what we’re talking about today will come cheap. Maintaining both a steady supply of testing materials and a community of contact tracers will take hundreds of millions of dollars,” Murphy said during his daily briefing in Trenton, adding that as the state slides into a “fiscal emergency” caused by Covid-19, more federal aid will be paramount.
The enforcement of social distancing rules helped the state flatten the curve, nixing projections of hospitalization totals that would have overwhelmed the state's health care system and likely killed thousands more. “So to all those ... Nostradamuses out there who think they can predict the future and we can open this place up wide and be carefree and get back to some semblance of where we were a couple of months ago, I want you to commit that chart to memory,” Murphy said, pointing to a bar chart showing New Jersey’s per capita totals.
Over the coming weeks, the administration also expects to recruit and train a small army of workers — at least 1,000 people and possibly as many as 5,000 — to investigate the contacts of patients who have recently tested positive for the coronavirus. There are already between 800 and 900 officials serving in contract tracing capacities at the local and county level across New Jersey.
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