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NJ's Largest Health Care System Treating 1,400 Coronavirus Patients Desperate For PPE, Staff NJ's Largest Health Care System Treating 1,400 Coronavirus Patients Desperate For PPE, Staff
NJ's Largest Health Care System Treating 1,400 Coronavirus Patients Desperate For PPE, Staff Hackensack Meridian Health is in dire need of PPE and staff -- and things are going to get worse, CEO Robert Garrett said in an interview with FOX News.  With more than 400 frontline caregivers out on quarantine, HMH is "starting at a deficit," Garrett said in preparing for the surge of COVID-19 cases in three to six weeks. There were more than 11,100 known coronavirus cases in New Jersey including 140 deaths as of Saturday. The system as of Saturday was caring for more than 1,400 coronavirus patients -- a third of them in the ICU and 300 on ventilators, Garrett said. HMH is hop…

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