With COVID-19 patients at half of the state’s eldercare facilities, and shortages of staff, PPE endemic, regional cohorts could help slow spread of infection

A dozen severely disabled people who live in state-funded residences have died; another 74 have tested positive. As with hospitals, PPE is in short supply ...

In something resembling a military operation, the state is on high alert, scrambling to add critical-care beds and ready pop-up field hospitals

Drawing on COVID-19 data from Washington State, officials require surgical masks for staffers at long-term care facilities

Doctors, medical ethicists, and health professionals are crafting decision-making tools to ensure resources are used effectively and fairly

With help of U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, New Jersey expects first temporary facility within a week, the rest to follow within a month

Working with newly available stats, state learns one in four symptomatic patients tested have COVID-19

While the epidemic’s scale is unprecedented, public health experts say knowledge gained from previous crises should have helped to prepare for the outbreak

There are growing concerns about NJ health care system’s capacity to handle a flood of COVID-19 cases; officials race to expand bed numbers

To deal with expected influx of patients, measures could include drafting in retired health care professional and reopening facilities that had been closed