The state is now reporting
more than 220,000 cases of coronavirus, including 1,282 Sunday -- only the second
time the state has seen a day over 1,000 since May.
Five counties reported at
least 100 new cases each Sunday, while 11 counties reported at least 50 new cases
each. Every county in the state reported at least two new cases.
Thanksgiving is a little over
a month away and many people are thinking about the holidays. Doctors say some
people have become more relaxed through the summer months, but it's
still important to remember wearing masks and social distancing.
"We're still doing generally a pretty
good job,” says Dr. Daniel Varga, chief physician executive at Hackensack
Meridian Health. “It's just one of those things of really minding your p's and
q's and not getting laxed just simply because it looks like, you know, even if
there is rain, it’s not really heavy. You know, we don't want this to turn into
a storm, right?"
Dr. Varga says thankfully,
Hackensack University Medical Center isn't seeing as many cases as it did
during its peak in April, and
patients aren't staying as long as
they were at the time.
The state's rate of
transmission is 1.15, and that number is headed down over the past couple of weeks. Anything over
one means the virus is still spreading.