Print this article New Jersey Gov. Phil Murphy's administration was warned last March that allowing COVID-19 patients into nursing homes would result in patient deaths, according to a new report. New Jersey Health Commissioner Judith Persichilli held a conference call on March 31 with hundreds of long-term care facility operators in which unidentified participants raised concerns about Murphy's policy, NJ.comreported on Sunday. “Patients will die,” a nursing home administrator said on the call, according to a recording of the meeting obtained by NJ Advance Media. "You understand that by asking us to take COVID patients, by demanding we take COVID patients, that patients will die in nursing homes that wouldn’t have otherwise died had we screened them out."