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Track Covid-19 in New Jersey

Track Covid-19 in New Jersey: Latest Data and Maps - The New York Times

Track Covid-19 in New Jersey

These Covid tracking pages are no longer being updated. Get the latest information from the Centers for Disease Control, or find archived data from The Times’s three year reporting effort here.

Daily Covid hospital admissions

Avg. on March 9 105
14-day change –23%
5
10
15 hospital admissions per 100,000
Under 60
All ages
60-69
70+

About the data

Data is from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

Since the end of the public health emergency on May 11, 2023, data that has been crucial to understanding the spread and impact of Covid is reported by government sources less frequently, or is no longer reported at all. Figures displayed on this page are some of the best remaining indicators for tracking the virus.

The number of daily hospital admissions shows how many patients were admitted to hospitals for Covid and is one of the most reliably reported indicators of Covid’s impact on a community. Age data can show how much of the vulnerable senior population is being affected by the virus.

About the data

Data is from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

Primary series vaccination rate

79%

Total population

95%

Ages 65 and up

Bivalent booster rate

17%

Total population

41%

Ages 65 and up

An updated vaccine is recommended for adults and most children.

Current hospitalizations

Confirmed Covid patients per 100,000 people
12
24
36
48
60
No data
About this data Source: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Notes: The hospitalized map shows a seven-day average for the number of patients hospitalized with Covid-19 in each hospital service area. The data is self-reported to the government by individual hospitals and excludes counts from hospitals operated by the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs and the Indian Health Service. Numbers for hospitalized patients are based on inpatient beds and include I.C.U. beds. Hospitalized Covid-19 patients include both confirmed and suspected Covid-19 patients. Hospitals may report the number of suspected Covid-19 patients in different ways. Data for Puerto Rico is reported at the territory level instead of by hospital service area. The C.D.C. stopped reporting data on cases in May 2023. Cumulative data on deaths may not be complete. Death counts for counties with fewer than ten Covid deaths recorded are not publicly available from the C.D.C.

How trends have changed in New Jersey

The number of Covid patients in hospitals is an indicator of Covid’s ongoing impact on hospitals and I.C.U.s. Test positivity rates are reported less consistently, but can show how infections are trending. Deaths are a lagging but important ongoing indicator of the virus’s toll. The percent of deaths due to Covid provides an early indicator of death trends.

Covid patients in hospitals and I.C.U.s
Early data may be incomplete.
2,000
4,000
6,000 hospitalized
Hospitalized
In I.C.U.s
520
Test positivity rate in H.H.S. Region 2
Region includes New Jersey, New York, Puerto Rico and the U.S. Virgin Islands.
10%
20%
30%
5
Weekly deaths
Data for recent weeks is incomplete.
1,000
2,000 deaths
13
Percent of deaths due to Covid-19
Percent of deaths of all causes which were due to Covid-19, over a four-week period.
20%
40%
2
About this data Source: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Notes: Figures for Covid patients in hospitals and I.C.U.s are the most recent number of patients with Covid-19 who are hospitalized or in an intensive care unit on that day. Dips and spikes could be due to inconsistent reporting by hospitals. Hospitalization numbers early in the pandemic are undercounts due to incomplete reporting by hospitals to the federal government. The C.D.C. stopped reporting data on cases in May 2023. Test positivity is based on tests that laboratories voluntarily reported to the federal government. A death is recorded in the week it occurred, and comprehensive reporting can lag by weeks. The number of deaths each week, particularly for recent weeks, may change as the National Center for Health Statistics makes revisions to their data.

Vaccination trends in New Jersey

The first vaccines were primary series doses of either a one- or two-shot regimen. In fall 2021, the first booster shots arrived. A year later, bivalent boosters, with extra protection against the Omicron variant, were approved.

Average daily doses administered
50,000
100,000 doses
7-day average
1,544
Average daily people vaccinated
  • Completed primary series
  • Received bivalent booster
20,000
40,000 people
About this data Source: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention

Vaccination rates by county

Uptake of the bivalent booster is low across most of the country, despite being the government’s recommended level of protection against the virus. Bivalent booster coverage is highest among seniors, one of the most vulnerable groups. County data does not include breakdowns for some age groups below. Statewide, 6% of vaccinations did not specify the person’s home county.

Completed
primary series
Bivalent
booster rate
Booster rates
5 to 11
12 to 17 18 to 64 65+
N.J.New Jersey79%17%4%7%15%41%
Somerset ›80%22%49%
Mercer ›76%22%52%
Morris ›81%21%47%
Hunterdon ›75%21%45%
Burlington ›79%20%50%
Camden ›73%19%48%
Cape May ›79%18%43%
Bergen ›82%18%43%
Middlesex ›77%17%42%
Monmouth ›71%17%43%
About this data Sources: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention; Andrew A. Beveridge, Social Explorer (analysis of U.S. Census Bureau population and demographic data). Note: No C.D.C. data is available for some counties.

Historical trends in New Jersey

The data in this chart has been archived and is no longer being updated.

Weekly cases
50,000
100,000
150,000
200,000 cases
1,643
About this data Source: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. The data in this chart has been archived and is no longer being updated. Weekly county case data prior to Jan. 2021 was not reported by the C.D.C. and is sourced from reporting by The New York Times. The C.D.C. stopped reporting data on cases in May 2023.

Credits

By Jon Huang, Samuel Jacoby, Jasmine C. Lee, John-Michael Murphy, Charlie Smart and Albert Sun. Additional reporting by Sarah Cahalan, Lisa Waananen Jones, Amy Schoenfeld Walker and Josh Williams. See a full list of contributors to The Times’s Covid-19 data reporting here.

About the data

Data on this page is reported by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Population and demographic data is from the U.S. Census Bureau. Hospitalization data is reported by individual hospitals to the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, and it includes confirmed and suspected adult and pediatric patients. The C.D.C. does not provide complete vaccinations data for some counties and caps its vaccination rate figures at 95 percent.

The C.D.C. may make historical updates as more data is reported.

The C.D.C. stopped reporting data on Covid cases in May 2023.