Saturday’s update comes a day after the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention significantly loosened federal mask guidelines.
Atlantic, Burlington, Camden, Cape May, Hunterdon, Mercer, Monmouth, Ocean, Passaic, and Salem counties have been downgraded to the substantial category, while the rest remain high.. New “community levels” take into account not just the total number of COVID-19 cases in an area, but also hospital admissions and the number of beds available. The three levels are low, medium and high, and each come with distinct guidelines.
No New Jersey counties were at the high risk level on Saturday. The CDC still recommends indoor masking in public for high-level counties.— has started to spread in small numbers in New Jersey. Officials said it’s too soon to know how the variant will affect both the state and nation. Officials continue to emphasize that while vaccinated and boosted residents can still catch the virus, they are less likely to spread it and far less likely to become hospitalized or die — especially those who have gotten booster shots. That also helps alleviate pressure on hospitals, they say.
Among the 2.33 million residents unvaccinated or who haven’t completed the initial course of vaccination, there were 60,370 cases in that span. Those cases led to 1,571 hospitalizations and 223 deaths. But Murphy said the state is seeing “the rates of in-school transmission now down to where they were pre-Omicron.”
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