It doesn’t take a Nostradamus – who, by the way, was a physician known for treating plague victims more successfully than most of his colleagues at that time – to predict COVID-19 numbers will rise after holiday celebrations. It has happened again and again, and sure enough, it happened after this year’s long 4th of July holiday weekend.
As reported in The SandPaper on July 6, the Ocean County Health Department had reported 781 new confirmed cases of for the week of June 22 to 28.
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