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Revised Figures Show One In 10 Nursing Home Residents in New Jersey Died from COVID-19

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Ridgewood NJ, More than 100,000 people are now dead in the United States because of a virus no one had heard of before late last year. This microscopic pathogen COVID19 brought life and lives to a halt.
The most important and ignored Coronavirus statistic is that 43% of U.S. deaths are from nursing homes . That means  2.1 million Americans in Long Term Care facilities , representing 0.62% of the U.S. population, account  for 43% of all deaths due to COVID19 . In Ridgewood alone suffered 35  deaths from COVID19 and 28 were in Long Term Care .

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NJ Heath Commissioner Finally Acts On Nursing Homes

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River Vale NJ,  according to assemblywomen Holly Schepisi , “I wish this had been implemented over a month ago when I first asked and suggested that it was truly needed but it’s a positive step in the right direction.”

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