the staff if the Ridgewood blog
Ridgewood NJ, the steep decline in COVID hospitalizations in New Jersey continued for the ninth consecutive day on Thursday January 20th , marking a 21% decline since the peak of the current wave on January 11th.
There were 4,826 people in the hospital with COVID-19 overnight Thursday, compared to the 6,089 at the peak of the wave, driven in part by the quick spread of the highly contagious omicron variant through the state. Bloomberg News admitted , “the omicron variant of Covid-19 may be less likely to land patients in the hospital than the delta strain, according to three studies of preliminary data. Researchers in Scotland suggest the variant is associated with a two-thirds reduction in the risk of hospitalization when compared with the earlier mutation, though omicron was 10 times more likely to infect people who’d already had the virus. There’s more on the accumulating evidence that omicron seems weaker than its predecessors. ”
There were 791 COVID patients in intensive care, down from 919 on Jan. 11, and 511 who needed ventilators, down from 560 on January 16th .
It’s still bad.
over. deaths at zero….
https://projects.nj.com/coronavirus-tracker/