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Paramus NJ, less than one week after the Murphy Administration and New Jersey Veterans’ Families Settle Lawsuit for $53 million Over COVID Nursing Home Deaths , Governor Murphy announced that the New Jersey National Guard will be deploying to long-term care facilities throughout New Jersey to assist with COVID-19 response efforts and to augment facilities’ staffing. This is an extension of Joint Task Force COVID Guardian, which has provided coordinated assistance to numerous long-term care facilities since the first weeks of the COVID-19 pandemic.
“Time and time again, the New Jersey National Guard has stepped up to the plate throughout this pandemic,” said Governor Murphy. “This deployment will send members of our National Guard to long-term care facilities with staffing needs and will act to protect the health and safety of long-term-care residents while the Omicron variant surges throughout the nation.
“COVID-19 is still a threat to our New Jersey communities,” said Department of Military and Veterans Affairs Commissioner Brig. Gen. Lisa Hou, D.O. “The Soldiers and Airmen of the New Jersey National Guard are working hard every day to protect public health.”
“We are grateful to the National Guard for their assistance in caring for the residents of those facilities most in need,” said Department of Health Commissioner Judith Persichilli. “Throughout this pandemic, protecting our most vulnerable residents has been paramount. As we have seen in the community, COVID-19 cases and outbreaks have been rising for several weeks in our long-term care facilities. We continue to work closely with long-term care facilities throughout the state to ensure that they have the staff they need.”
Approximately 150 Soldiers and Airmen of the New Jersey National Guard are preparing to support staffing requirements of more than a dozen long-term care facilities around the state. Guard members will assist regular staff with a variety of tasks, including administrative and logistical support. Members are undergoing training and work is anticipated to start at their assigned locations on Monday, January 10, 2022.
Tasks that National Guard members will assist with will include:
Assist residents with getting from bed to chair, walking
Assistance in dressing and daily hygiene activities
Meal set-up and feeding
Routine assistance
Testing and screening staff, residents, and visitors’
Fired unvac’d nurses in the middle of a labor crunch and a pandemic. Gov’ or is totally out of his feeble mind.
This is not about public health.
The destruction of existing system is intentional, and the majority of people are asleep to notice it.
Pay attention to what’s happening in Kazakhstan. The “price of gas” is a narrative being sold. The real number one reason was that on Jan 5 the govt singed and order that would ban the unvaccinated from entering grocery stores. Cancellation of forced vaccinations and cancellation of QR codes (vaccine passports) is the number one demand made by people.
Bravo to the National Guard. THEY, are taking care of their own. Governor Murphy, just stop.