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Governor Murphy Continues to Obscure Truth About Nursing Home Tragedies

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Paramus NJ, , Senator Joe Pennacchio called the four nursing home bills signed Wednesday by Governor Murphy “a legislative distraction that fails to address the root causes of failings that accounted for more than 7,000 deaths in nursing homes.”

“The Governor continues to whitewash the systemic problems that plague facilities,” said Pennacchio. “State government policies led to the deaths of one of every 10 residents in nursing homes, and Murphy refuses to defend those decisions.”

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Virus Outbreak at the Wanaque Center for Nursing and Rehabilitation all But Forgotten

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Lessons never learned for COVID 19 Pandemic 

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Wanaque NJ, The virus swept through the nursing home, taking the most vulnerable. Some of the residents on ventilators to help them breathe began spiking fevers and were rushed to the hospital in irreversible shock. And with a lack of rigorous infection controls, it spread like wildfire, leaving dozens of patients critically ill and sickening at least one staff member.By the time it was all over, 11 children were dead and another 36 had been infected.

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