As COVID-19 cases slowly rise in New Jersey and across the country, about one in four nursing homes and assisted living facilities in the state have reported an outbreak in the past week. But don’t expect the lockdowns or other drastic measures from the early days of the pandemic to return since neither Gov. Murphy’s administration nor the Biden administration has issued any recent policy changes. And with the national health emergency lifted in May and the widespread availability of vaccines and boosters, nursing home operators are now the ones deciding how to manage the cases as they have been rising over the last month.
