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Covid-19: Virus Spreads To 100 Hospital Workers On Jersey Shore

Coronavirus has spread to at least 100 workers from Ocean Medical Center in Brick Township, officials said.

Ocean Medical Center

Ocean Medical Center

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 A memo posted on the hospital parent company’s website on Monday attributed the recent outbreak to “colleagues socializing outside of work.” The memo has since been removed.

Benjamin Goldstein, a spokesman for.Hackensack Meridian Health, which owns the 318-bed hospital in Ocean County, said in a statement that  visits with patients have been suspended with the exception of labor and delivery, end-of-life care, pediatrics and adult patients with special needs, 

“We continue to have adequate staffing for both COVID-19 cases and elective surgeries, and follow all rigorous safety protocols established by the CDC and the New Jersey Department of Health,” Goldstein said, according to NJ Advance Media.

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