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COVID Update New Jersey: Residents, staff at long-term care facilities begin getting 2nd dose of vaccine Replay Video UP NEXT Residents and workers at the first long-term care facility in New Jersey to get the COVID-19 vaccination began receiving their second doses Monday. Governor Phil Murphy and Health Commissioner Judy Persichilli were on hand at the Roosevelt Care Center in Old Bridge for the event, as the state continues to mourn more than 7,200 long-term care residents who have died from the novel coronavirus. Three weeks ago, 103-year-old Newark native Mildred Clements became the firs...

Anthony Johnson reports on New Jersey's State of the State address. Mildred, who has now live through two pandemics, received her shot to a round of applause. She was followed by nurse Esther Moodey, the state's first nursing home staff member to receive the vaccine. "It is an understatement to say that this has been an incredibly challenging year for all of us in healthcare, on many levels," Moodey said after receiving the first dose. "I am thankful for the COVID-19 vaccine and honored to be the first staff member at our facility receive it, in solidarity with my colleagues in other long ter...

Officials with the South Carolina Department of Health and Environmental Control (DHEC) say the internal database they use to track COVID-19 cases has been experiencing problems that has caused incomplete case reporting for several days.

Test positivity rate in Knox County finally drops below state benchmark GALESBURG —The Knox County Health Department announced 100 new COVID-19 cases Friday that were detected between Tuesday and Thursday in the county. The new positive cases include 32 female and 68 male individuals. While rates of infection remain high in the county, Knox County has made its way off of the State of Illinois' COVID level orange advisories. The advisories, meant to assess whether counties are meeting targets for COVID-19 mitigation strategies, have held Knox alongside much of the state since the most recent...

Long-term care facility hit hard by COVID-19 receives vaccine Officials at a nursing facility in Deep East Texas dealing with a COVID-19 outbreak receive vaccine Friday. Hemphill Care Center is located in Hemphill, Texas. (Source: KTRE) By Jeremy Thomas | January 15, 2021 at 8:05 PM CST - Updated January 17 at 10:06 AM HEMPHILL, Texas (KTRE) - Officials at a nursing facility in Deep East Texas say they have been dealing with a COVID-19 outbreak that has killed 10 residents since Thanksgiving. The outbreak is at the Hemphill Care Center in Sabine County. The center is home to nearly 70 ...