Gov. Phil Murphy’s COVID-19 briefing on Monday started off with an unplanned visual demonstration of how serious the state’s second wave of the disease has become.

Murphy typically introduces the other people sharing a table with him – socially distanced, of course – at the beginning of his three-a-week briefings. To his left is always New Jersey State Police Superintendent Col. Patrick J. Callahan. Then there’s state Department of Health Commissioner Judith M.