Hudson County’s COVID Cases: This Week's Numbers

HUDSON COUNTY, NJ — Cases of the coronavirus continue to have an impact on Hudson County, according to this week's data. The numbers indicate that new cases and deaths are rising in the county at the same rate as the previous week.

On Friday, March 12, the state posted that Hudson County had 66,755 confirmed cases since the start of the pandemic, and 1,860 confirmed deaths. This is an increase of 1,847 cases since the week before, or a 2.8 percent increase — about the same as last week. In addition, there were 22 new deaths since last week, an increase of 1.2 percent.

On Friday, March 5, Hudson County reported 64,908 confirmed cases since the start of the pandemic, and a total of 1,838 confirmed deaths. That was an increase in cases from the week before of 2.9 percent, and an increase in deaths of 1 percent.

A week earlier, the county 63,044 confirmed cases and 1,820 confirmed deaths. That was a 2.7 percent increase in cases since the week before, and an 1.8 percent increase in deaths.

The disease’s impact is reflected in the state Department of Health's most recent "COVID-19 Activity Level Report," issued weekly.

See Patch's weekly update on where to get a vaccine in Hudson County here.

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New Jersey highs and lows

• As of Wednesday, the state reported 56 new deaths in 24 hours, as well as 1,961 current hospitalizations, 408 of those in critical care, 58 percent of those on ventilators, and 6 new cases of a variant "of concern," including one of the South African variant.
• The cumulative state death toll is 21,294.
• New Jersey's peak daily death toll on April 30, 2020 was 460 fatalities reported in one day. The number then steadily dropped until late summer, when cases began rising again.
• The daily fatality rate still has not dropped to the level of Sept. 7, when there were a total of only two coronavirus fatalities reported statewide.
• As of this week, more than 530,000 Americans had died of the virus. (You can see which states had the highest death toll in the past week on this CDC map.)

Here are statewide coronavirus resources:

• NJ COVID-19 Information Hub: https://covid19.nj.gov/
• General COVID-19 questions: 2-1-1
• NJ COVID-19 hotline: (800) 222-1222

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