This Week's Hudson County Coronavirus Numbers And Trends

HUDSON COUNTY, NJ — Although more than a third of New Jersey residents have now received at least one dose of the coronavirus vaccine, the virus continues to be a factor in the area.

Hudson County was named this week in a federal report as one of 12 out of 21 counties as having a rate of 2.0 to 4.9 deaths per 100,000 people between April 2 and 8. READ MORE: 12 NJ Counties With Highest Case, Fatality Rates Amid COVID: Feds

This Friday's numbers from the state indicate that Hudson County has had a total of 76,100 cases since the start of the pandemic, an increase of 1,368, or 1.8 percent, since last Friday's case count.

The county has had 1,973 confirmed deaths, or 25 new confirmed deaths, since the previous week, an increase of 1.3 percent.

Last Friday's numbers from the state indicated that Hudson County has had a total of 74,732 confirmed cases, up 7,977 cases from four weeks earlier. There were 1,948 Confirmed Deaths, up 88 from four weeks earlier.

On Friday, March 12, the state had posted that Hudson County had 66,755 confirmed cases since the start of the pandemic, and 1,860 confirmed 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.

State hospitalization trends

In New Jersey on Monday, there were 27 new deaths reported since the day before. The state has seen a total of 22,323 deaths total.

As of the most recent hospitalization count on Monday, 2,261 people are hospitalized with the virus, 448 of those in critical care. There are 958 reports of CDC variants of concern.

The state's daily death toll has never declined to the level of Sept. 8, when only 2 deaths were reported in one day. New Jersey's peak daily death toll was on April 30, 2020, with 460 fatalities reported in one day. The numbers then steadily dropped during the shutdowns in the summer, until September, when they began rising again.

Vaccinations

On April 19, all New Jersey residents 16 and over will be eligible to be vaccinated.

As of Friday, across the country, approximately 565,000 Americans had died of the virus. (You can see which states had the highest death toll in the past week on this CDC map.)

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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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