New Jersey on Tuesday lowered the number of reported coronavirus-related deaths at its long-term care facilities by about 1,400, after health officials determined those residents had not received a lab-confirmed diagnosis for Covid-19 before they died
This new method of recording deaths now matches how the state accounts for its overall Covid-19-related death toll, which as of Tuesday stood at 10,586, including 162 new deaths.
The reason for this, Lifshitz said Tuesday, was that “a large number of facilities … got overwhelmed very quickly,” by the pandemic, which affected their ability to respond and “report out accurately what happened in them.” The coronavirus pandemic has ravaged the state’s long-term care facilities, with more than 500 suffering outbreaks.with provisions for coronavirus testing of staff and residents. Thursday marked the deadline for those plans.
In addition to ensuring that staff and residents at long-term care facilities would be tested, the Murphy administration has made efforts to expand testing capacity a prerequisite of any plans to reopen the state.to administer FDA-approved Covid-19 tests without first entering into collaborative proactive agreements with physicians, and without patients needing to get a prescription first.
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