COVID-19 stubbornly refuses to go away.
The Ocean County Health Department had reported 776 new confirmed cases of COVID-19 in the county for the week of June 8 to 14. That was great news, considering there had been 1,230 new cases for the period of June 2 to 7 and 2,815 for the week of May 25 to 31.
However, since then the numbers have hit a level described in a way that should be familiar to anyone who has carefully monitored the COVID-19 pandemic for the past few years – a plateau.
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