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New Jersey on Memorial Day reported 2,177 COVID-19 confirmed positive tests and three confirmed deaths as positive tests continue to level off after weeks of increases.

The state’s seven-day average for confirmed cases was 3,705 on Monday, down 4% from a week ago, but still up 74% from a month ago.

The statewide rate of transmission for Saturday was 1.09. The transmission rate reported daily by the Department of Health were not available Sunday or Monday. When the transmission rate is over 1, that means each new case is leading to at least one additional case and the outbreak is expanding.

There were 841 patients with confirmed or suspected coronavirus cases reported across 70 of the state’s 71 hospitals as of Sunday night. One hospital did not report data. Hospitalizations still remain significantly lower than when they peaked at 6,089 on Jan. 10 during the omicron wave.

There were at least 127 people discharged in the 24-hour period ending Sunday, according to state data. Of those hospitalized, 101 were in intensive care and 41 were on ventilators.

The positivity rate for tests conducted on Wednesday, the most recent day with available data, was 11.63%.

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention now lists 11 New Jersey counties with “high” transmission rates — Atlantic, Burlington, Camden, Cape May, Gloucester, Mercer, Monmouth, Morris, Ocean, Salem and Sussex.

Those in high-risk areas are recommended to wear a mask indoors in public and on public transportation and stay up-to-date on vaccinations, according to the CDC.

Ten counties are in the medium risk category: Bergen, Cumberland, Essex, Hudson, Hunterdon, Middlesex, Passaic, Somerset, Union and Warren. Masks are not recommended in the medium and low regions.

TOTAL NUMBERS

New Jersey has reported more than 2 million total confirmed COVID-19 cases out of more than 17.8 million PCR tests conducted in the more than two years since the state reported its first known case March 4, 2020.

The Garden State has also recorded about 338,000 positive antigen or rapid tests, which are considered probable cases. And there are numerous cases that have likely never been counted, including at-home positive tests that are not included in the state’s numbers.

The state of 9.2 million residents has reported 33,696 COVID-19 deaths — 30,633 confirmed fatalities and 3,063 probable ones.

New Jersey has the seventh-most coronavirus deaths per capita in the U.S. — behind Mississippi, Arizona, Oklahoma, Alabama, Tennessee and West Virginia — as of the latest data reported May 17. Last summer, the state had the most deaths per capita in the country.

The latest numbers follow a major study that revealed even a mild case of COVID-19 can significantly affect the brain. Long COVID — the term commonly used to describe symptoms stemming from the virus long after a person no longer tests positive — has been found to affect between 10% and 30% of those who contract the infection, regardless of whether they have a mild or serious case. In New Jersey, that would mean that roughly 600,000 of the more than 2 million who have tested positive for COVID since the onset of the pandemic either have or have had long COVID.

VACCINATION NUMBERS

More than 6.93 million of the 8.46 million eligible people who live, work or study in New Jersey have received the initial course of vaccinations and more than 7.8 million have received a first dose since vaccinations began here on Dec. 15, 2020.

More than 3.79 million people in the state eligible for boosters have received one. That number may rise after the FDA on Tuesday approved booster shots for healthy children between the ages of 5 and 11. U.S. regulators authorized the booster for kids hoping an extra vaccine dose will enhance their protection as infections once again creep upward.

SCHOOL AND LONG-TERM CARE NUMBERS

For the week ending May 15, with about 56.4% of schools reporting data, another 11,135 COVID-19 cases were reported among staff (3,008) and students (8,127) across New Jersey’s schools.

Since the start of the academic year, there have been 125,550 students and 37,197 school staff members who have contracted COVID-19 in New Jersey, though the state has never had more than two-thirds of the school districts reporting data in any week.

The state provides total student and staff cases separately from those deemed to be in-school transmission, which is narrowly defined as three or more cases linked through contact tracing.

New Jersey has reported 876 total in-school outbreaks, including 6,234 cases among students and staff. That includes 69 new outbreaks in the latest weekly report ending May 23. The state reported 82 in-school outbreaks the previous week.

At least 9,113 of the state’s COVID-19 deaths have been among residents and staff members at nursing homes and other long-term care facilities, according to state data.

There were active outbreaks at 343 facilities, resulting in 3,751 current cases among residents and 3,489 cases among staff, as of the latest data.

GLOBAL NUMBERS

As of Sunday, there have been more than 529 million COVID-19 cases reported across the globe, according to Johns Hopkins University, and more than 6.28 million people died due to the virus.

The U.S. has reported the most cases (more than 83.9 million) and deaths (at least 1,004,726) of any nation.

There have been more than 11.38 billion vaccine doses administered globally.

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LODI — A known domestic abuser has been charged with murder in the stabbing death of his wife, according to Bergen County authorities.

Lodi police responded to a 911 call on Thursday night at a home on Westervelt Place and found 44-year-old Janet Cinco had been stabbed multiple times.

She was rushed to Hackensack University Medical Center, where she was pronounced dead.

Joel Cinco, 48, was arrested the next day and charged with murder, burglary and weapons offenses.

Cinco has been arrested for previous domestic violence attacks.

In April 2021, he faced charges of violating a restraining order and strangling a domestic violence victim — which were pled down to unlawful possession of a weapon.

He also was arrested in December 2020, when he was accused of criminal restraint and terroristic threats – which were similarly pled down to unlawful possession of a weapon.

In both of those cases, Joel Cinco was sentenced to probation.

A GoFundMe campaign setup to benefit the victim’s two surviving children had raised more than $9,000 as of Monday.

“All donations will be used to contribute to medical bills, funeral expenses, relocation costs, and general utilities to support my sister and I,” Paul Cinco wrote in the online summary.

Erin Vogt is a reporter and anchor for New Jersey 101.5. You can reach her at erin.vogt@townsquaremedia.com

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Wendy Lacey, whose General Store in Montclair employs people with disabilities and sells the artisan products they create, has a different problem than most business owners these days: Too many people clamoring for work.

Despite being “overstaffed,” she gets frequent calls from disabled people and their guardians asking about employment.

“It’s very sobering,” she said. “There’s such a dire need for employment in the disabled community.”

Lacey, a former business executive and mother of four, opened the store in 2017, when her daughter Evelyn, who has Down Syndrome, was 15, in part to to prepare her daughter for life after the “cocoon” of the Montclair public schools. 

She and her husband, Andrew, also wanted to help their daughter feel part of the Montclair community and contribute to it. Now an 18-year-old junior at MHS, Evelyn makes lavender sachets, headbands and T-shirts that are sold in the store.

In addition to penny candy, ice cream, snacks, books and housewares, the store carries products created by disabled entrepreneurs, such as art by Bergen County’s Andrew Weatherly, textiles by Philadelphia artists and cookies from the North Carolina company Reason to Bake.

“People with disabilities aren’t satisfied sitting on the sidelines,” Lacey said. “They don’t want to be victims; they want to be contributors.”

The General Store staff is a mix of disabled and neurotypical employees, so “people of different abilities meet and learn from each other in unexpected ways,” she said. “Sometimes people with disabilities mentor those without, which is very empowering.”

Like the staff ratio, the location of the store, across the street from Buzz Aldrin Middle School, is no accident. After the last bell every afternoon, students pour in to buy candy and snacks. “The kid see people of different abilities working together,” she said. “I’m trying to make those differently-abled faces look familiar, so people understand that this is what your community looks like.” 

Lacey’s goal is not to turn a profit but to be self-sustaining; earnings after expenses are channeled back into the business. It’s not necessary to be a nonprofit to help the community she said. “I think all businesses should hire people with disabilities.”

Similarly, she doesn’t employ volunteers. “I feel strongly that everyone should get paid,” she said. “This is not a pity party for those with disabilities; this is about people getting concrete job skills, feeling a sense of responsibility and making money.” 

Her business is the 3,000 square-foot building she owns in Upper Montclair, and it houses the store as well as a community space, speech therapist, movement center, special-needs attorney and other “mission partners” dedicated to serving the disabled. Tenants of the building, called Cornerstone, have reduced rents and share the mission of “empowering people of all abilities to be included as active participants in the vibrancy of Montclair.”

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“It’s really fun to see the synergies happen when these groups team up together,” she said. “Sometimes the speech therapist will bring a client down to the store to practice asking questions and other life skills in a real-life setting.” 

“This is not just about my kid, or kids in special ed,” Lacey said. “One in five Americans identify as having a disability at some point in their lives.”   

Evelyn turns 18 in June and Lacey is acutely aware that the transition from school to the real world is particularly fraught for parents of special needs children. 

“Even if you have great success in an inclusive education setting, once you hit 21 and age out of that structured environment, it can be like falling off a cliff,” she said. 

Recently, the Laceys donated $250,000 to Montclair State University’s Increasing Access to College (IAC) project to establish the University’s first comprehensive transition program and college certificate for adults with intellectual or developmental disabilities.

The gift, they say, was inspired by their hopes for their daughter.  

“Our eyes have been opened to the value that people with disabilities add to their community and to what’s important in helping them have a fulfilling life,” she said.

Julia Martin is the 2021 recipient of the New Jersey Society for Professional Journalists’ David Carr award for her coverage of Montclair for NorthJersey.com.

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New Jersey on Sunday reported 3,207 COVID-19 confirmed positive tests and no new confirmed deaths as positive tests continue to level off after weeks of increases.

The state’s seven-day average for confirmed cases was 3,737 on Sunday, down 5% from a week ago, but still up 82% from a month ago.

The statewide rate of transmission for Saturday was 1.09. The transmission rate and some other numbers reported daily by the Department of Health were not available not available Sunday. When the transmission rate is over 1, that means each new case is leading to at least one additional case and the outbreak is expanding.

There were 822 patients with confirmed or suspected coronavirus cases reported across 69 of the state’s 71 hospitals as of Saturday night. Two hospitals did not report data. Hospitalizations still remain significantly lower than when they peaked at 6,089 on Jan. 10 during the omicron wave.

There were at least 228 people discharged in the 24-hour period ending Friday, according to state data. Of those hospitalized, 110 were in intensive care and 44 were on ventilators.

The positivity rate for tests conducted on Monday, the most recent day with available data, was 11.37%.

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention now lists 11 New Jersey counties with “high” transmission rates — Atlantic, Burlington, Camden, Cape May, Gloucester, Mercer, Monmouth, Morris, Ocean, Salem and Sussex.

Those in high-risk areas are recommended to wear a mask indoors in public and on public transportation and stay up-to-date on vaccinations, according to the CDC.

Ten counties are in the medium risk category: Bergen, Cumberland, Essex, Hudson, Hunterdon, Middlesex, Passaic, Somerset, Union and Warren. Masks are not recommended in the medium and low regions.

TOTAL NUMBERS

New Jersey has reported more than 2 million total confirmed COVID-19 cases out of more than 17.8 million PCR tests conducted in the more than two years since the state reported its first known case March 4, 2020.

The Garden State has also recorded about 338,000 positive antigen or rapid tests, which are considered probable cases. And there are numerous cases that have likely never been counted, including at-home positive tests that are not included in the state’s numbers.

The state of 9.2 million residents has reported 33,693 COVID-19 deaths — 30,630 confirmed fatalities and 3,063 probable ones.

New Jersey has the seventh-most coronavirus deaths per capita in the U.S. — behind Mississippi, Arizona, Oklahoma, Alabama, Tennessee and West Virginia — as of the latest data reported May 17. Last summer, the state had the most deaths per capita in the country.

The latest numbers follow a major study that revealed even a mild case of COVID-19 can significantly affect the brain. Long COVID — the term commonly used to describe symptoms stemming from the virus long after a person no longer tests positive — has been found to affect between 10% and 30% of those who contract the infection, regardless of whether they have a mild or serious case. In New Jersey, that would mean that roughly 600,000 of the more than 2 million who have tested positive for COVID since the onset of the pandemic either have or have had long COVID.

VACCINATION NUMBERS

More than 6.93 million of the 8.46 million eligible people who live, work or study in New Jersey have received the initial course of vaccinations and more than 7.8 million have received a first dose since vaccinations began here on Dec. 15, 2020.

More than 3.79 million people in the state eligible for boosters have received one. That number may rise after the FDA on Tuesday approved booster shots for healthy children between the ages of 5 and 11. U.S. regulators authorized the booster for kids hoping an extra vaccine dose will enhance their protection as infections once again creep upward.

SCHOOL AND LONG-TERM CARE NUMBERS

For the week ending May 15, with about 56.4% of schools reporting data, another 11,135 COVID-19 cases were reported among staff (3,008) and students (8,127) across New Jersey’s schools.

Since the start of the academic year, there have been 125,550 students and 37,197 school staff members who have contracted COVID-19 in New Jersey, though the state has never had more than two-thirds of the school districts reporting data in any week.

The state provides total student and staff cases separately from those deemed to be in-school transmission, which is narrowly defined as three or more cases linked through contact tracing.

New Jersey has reported 876 total in-school outbreaks, including 6,234 cases among students and staff. That includes 69 new outbreaks in the latest weekly report ending May 23. The state reported 82 in-school outbreaks the previous week.

At least 9,113 of the state’s COVID-19 deaths have been among residents and staff members at nursing homes and other long-term care facilities, according to state data.

There were active outbreaks at 343 facilities, resulting in 3,751 current cases among residents and 3,489 cases among staff, as of the latest data.

GLOBAL NUMBERS

As of Sunday, there have been more than 528 million COVID-19 cases reported across the globe, according to Johns Hopkins University, and more than 6.28 million people died due to the virus.

The U.S. has reported the most cases (more than 83.9 million) and deaths (at least 1,004,726) of any nation.

There have been more than 11.38 billion vaccine doses administered globally.

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Vashti Harris may be reached at vharris@njadvancemedia.com.

The first time Bruce Springsteen called Max Weinberg, it was to join The E Street Band.

Countless conversations with The Boss have followed, part and parcel of nearly 50 years spent drumming for one of the most vaunted rock groups on planet Earth.

Springsteen can still surprise, however, as he did earlier this week, unexpectedly notifying Weinberg and his bandmates that their sprawling, Jersey-bred outfit would finally resume touring — the E Street Band’s first roadshow in six years, kicking off in early 2023.

But first, Weinberg is returning to one of his favorite venues, the South Orange Performing Arts Center (SOPAC). Max Weinberg’s Jukebox, set to hit the Essex County stage June 9, is “really not a concert, it’s a party,” he says.

Weinberg recently spoke with NJ Advance Media about his undying love for New Jersey (his family lived in Newark, Maplewood, and South Orange) and his upcoming show. Days later, when the Springsteen tour was announced, Weinberg talked with us again, explaining that even he hadn’t known about it, aside from the constant Springsteen online chatter, which he tends to dismiss until he gets the official word.

But when The E Street Band plays, all else changes.

“My contracts all contain a force majeure, a legal term for an act of God – or Bruce Springsteen,” Weinberg explains. “That is in all of my contracts. And I actually had to institute that at times to change the date on something I was doing.”

Talking from Delray Beach, Fla., where Weinberg, 71, lives and proudly sits on the planning and zoning board, he says that however long the tour runs, wherever it goes, is grand as far as he’s concerned. He doesn’t have details other than he would be playing.

“That is above my pay grade,” Weinberg says of the particulars. “I just take them one show at a time. That is why they call Bruce The Boss – he makes all the decisions.

“I sort of take it as it comes,” he continues. “I like playing my shows. If all of us are getting back together, my metaphor is that show ‘Brigadoon.’ This very special thing comes around every once in a while. Since the very early days, when I joined one year into Bruce’s recording career, we were working all the time. It was not even a tour. It became bigger places and more logistics; in the early days, the tour wasn’t named; we were just playing. And when the details that need to be addressed but don’t necessarily impact me, I don’t ask, and I don’t need to know.”

And so Weinberg plans his own tour, this party where the audience calls out songs, and three musicians – Glenn Burtnik, John Merjave, and Chris Holt – play requests. The Jukebox series grew out of a show Weinberg first staged in 2017, though the performance is different each time, depending on what the audience wants. It’s also evolved over the years.

“I tell a lot more stories now,” he says. “People enjoy a peek behind the curtain of my career. I have been fortunate enough to do that and I am happy to share those stories. I tell a lot of stories and it is a bit of a Neil Simon approach to a kid who caught up to his rock and roll dreams.”

Over the years, Weinberg was the bandleader and sidekick on “Late Night with Conan O’Brien.” He began with the talk show host in 1993 and left to tour with The E Street Band (that act of God or Springsteen) six years later, but returned. Weinberg even moved to Los Angeles when O’Brien assumed his ill-fated brief run on “The Tonight Show” which only lasted a few months in 2010. Weinberg has also regularly played The Rainbow Room.

Yet it’s for the marathon Springsteen concerts that Weinberg keeps himself fit. He watches his diet, gets his sleep, and works out with a trainer.

“I have been playing since we last played,” he says. “I am ready. As my trainer says, ‘if you stay ready, you don’t have to get ready.’”

Sure, he’s sitting while keeping the beat but make no mistake, this is a high-intensity workout.

“Physically, The E Street Band is the hardest thing I have ever done in my life,” he says. “If the schedule holds, I will be 72, and I play with the same intensity and vigor I did 49 years ago. That’s why I stay in shape because it’s hard work, and it’s fun.”

Weinberg’s work is also essential to the E Street Band’s thunderous sound. He is the timekeeper, the steady-sticked straight man setting the pace. It’s his rhythm that makes it impossible to sit still during “Tenth Avenue Freeze-Out” and ”Rosalita (Come Out Tonight),” his snare cracks that open “Born in the U.S.A.” and “The Ties That Bind” and never lets up. Springsteen and others in the band have long praised Weinberg’s ability to sense what’s coming and keep the show moving, even when a fan request taps mammoth Springsteen’s songbook — more than 330 tunes and counting.

Weinberg doesn’t yet know what songs from the latest album, 2020′s pumping “Letter to You,” will be performed.

“I particularly enjoy ‘Ghosts,’ which we played on ‘SNL,’” he says. “We have only played (together) once in the last six years — on ‘SNL.’ That and ‘I’ll See You In My Dreams’ tears at your heartstrings. Like the shows, I take the songs one at a time. I love them all.”

The E Street Band’s songs are often requested at the Jukebox shows. It’s akin to the world’s most accomplished bar mitzvah and wedding band – a setting with which Weinberg has tremendous experience, especially in Essex County.

“I made a career playing every church on Wyoming Avenue from South Orange to Millburn,” he says.

The seven-year-old pro

By the time he signed on with Springsteen, at 23, Weinberg had already been a professional for 16 years. He was still in college, but the drummer had started making money as a musician very young. Weinberg recalls his first paying gig at The Chanticler, which had been a swanky catering hall in Millburn. He was seven years old.

His mother approached the bandleader, Herbie Zane, and told him that her son is a drummer. She asked if the dressed-up little boy could sit in with him. Surprised, Zane asked if he could play. Weinberg volunteered to play “When the Saints Go Marching In.”

“He got such a kick out of it that he would start hiring me at his club dates, for 50 cents or a $1 for each,” Weinberg recalls.

By the time he was at South Orange Junior High School, Weinberg was earning $100 to $125 a weekend. It helped, especially as his family found itself stretched financially.

His mom, Ruth, was a physical education teacher at Weequhaic High School for 46 years, taking off some time with each of her three kids. His dad, Bertram, was a lawyer whose avocation was summer camps. Further cementing Weinberg’s place in New Jersey history, legendary Newark-born author Philip Roth was a counselor at his father’s now-shuttered Camp Pocono Highlands in Marshalls Creek, Pennsylvania.

About five years ago, Weinberg’s manager heard from the chief archivist of the Roth archives because a trove of his letters had been found. Among them was this line about camp: “It would be perfect except for that little Weinberg bastard.”

Weinberg laughs, explaining he would have been only one year old at the time, so the writer was likely referring to a cousin. While Weinberg is very much in the present, happily married to Becky for 41 years, a proud father to journalist Ali, and drummer Jay, of heavy metal titans Slipknot, he enjoys reminiscing about his childhood and teen years.

He holds dear parts of Essex County, some of which are now memories. And his recollections are of South Orange as a Norman Rockwell kind of place.

“When you grow up somewhere, you notice trees you remember, and you see things that aren’t there anymore,” Weinberg says. “When I look at SOPAC, I see the lumberyard, Sikley’s, that was behind Reservoir Pizza and the Raritan Brook running through the park. These memories you have as a child, wherever you grow up, is very much like a Springsteen song — you remember the touchstones of your life.”

Some of his cherished memories include getting air as he soared down a snow-covered Flood’s Hill on a saucer sled. He loved the ice cream at Gruning’s and sloppy joes at Town Hall Deli. Weinberg also loved attending Columbia High School. The class of ‘69 has stayed close, and he hopes to see former classmates at his SOPAC show.

“On June 9, whoever’s in South Orange that day will see my driving around my old haunts,” Weinberg says.

After Columbia, Weinberg studied at nearby Seton Hall University by day and worked on Broadway by night. When he was only 21 credits shy of graduating and had landed in the hit “Godspell,” it looked as if all were working out. Still, he had that childhood dream — to play in a rock band.

Like most musicians at the time, he scoured The Village Voice want ads. Some guy was putting together a band, and one of Weinberg’s lifelong friends, Joe Delia, a keyboardist, told him: “‘This guy Springsteen is still auditioning drummers. You would be perfect for that.’ Several people I knew auditioned. I said, ‘Well, everyone else is auditioning, I’ll call him up.’”

“I went down and played, and one thing led to another,” he said. “It was an open-call audition, a multitude of piano players and drummers went down. It was a huge pay cut from Broadway.”

A few of his friends told him that he was nuts. “Godspell” could run for 20 years, and he was taking a chance on some guy from Freehold with a band?

“This guy is good,” Weinberg told his friends. “I played with him twice, and I am telling you, he is going to be big. At that point, I had been playing for 16 years. I knew talent when I saw it. And with Bruce, anybody knows just immediately you run out of superlatives when discussing his songwriting, performing abilities.”

Then the rest of the world learned what New Jersey had known for a while, and the band became a global phenomenon. Flash forward to when the band was breaking up in the late ‘80s, after “Tunnel of Love.” Springsteen and Weinberg stood on the lawn of Springsteen’s California home on a gentle summer night as Weinberg thought hard about his next steps.

“I am looking at, if the band is not there, what am I going to do?” Weinberg says. “I had to change my childhood fantasy of playing in a rock ‘n’ roll band.”

He had long been interested in the law and in representing performers. Plus, he was captivated by the burgeoning online world. He finished Seton Hall and enrolled in Cardozo Law School.

“I realized there might be opportunities as an attorney in that field, way before Apple, the internet, and everything else,” he says. “Turns out I was right. I ultimately went to law school – for six weeks.”

Then he got a call from Dave Edmunds, so he left the tortures of property law and returned to rock n’ roll. Weinberg also remembered what Springsteen had said to him on that summer night in ‘89 – not to stop drumming. “You’re too good,” Springsteen told him.

And so he kept playing. He made a name for himself outside of The E Street Band. The years on TV, and his own band, The Max Weinberg Big Band, where he played Sinatra and Count Basie. The music has never stopped just because he’s not on a stage where people are chanting “Bruce.”

And now, with another call from Springsteen, he’ll be off again. This time, as the world reels from one miserable tragedy to the next, Weinberg considers how very welcome an E Street Band tour is.

“This is the sort of joy that the world needs now with the intensity and commitment of live Bruce Springsteen songs,” Weinberg says. “I think the whole world really needs a shot of Bruce and The E Street Band, given what we have all been through, particularly in the last three years. The thing he does and the thing we do with him is unique in the world of presentational performance — not to take away from anyone else.

“Playing his songs strikes a chord that is immediate,” Weinberg continues. “They are built for tough times, and times are tough. Just his whole songwriting career is about addressing those issues, and the way he does it, I can honestly say I don’t know anybody else who does this. It is a point of pride to play this material.”

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