N.J.’S Top Health Official: ‘I’m Definitely Going To Get It. We All Are’

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Nearing the end of another 16-hour day overseeing New Jersey’s response to the coronavirus pandemic, Judith Persichilli pauses at the door of her crisis conference room to answer a final question.

Persichilli, the state health commissioner, has become a familiar face in the state as the woman who calmly announces how many people have tested positive and died of COVID-19 disease each day. Behind the scenes, she is the health official who has been running the state’s day-to-day battle against the virus.

But at age 71, Persichilli is squarely in the age range that experts are warning to be most cautious.

“Are you worried,” I ask, “that you’ll get the coronavirus eventually?”

She smiles.

“I’m definitely going to get it. We all are,” Persichilli says matter-of-factly. “I’m just waiting.”

It will probably be mild. She’ll feel sick for a few days, then hopefully get better, she says. It may not be this month or this year. But, she’s studied all the coronavirus pandemic algorithms and consulted the experts.

It’s coming for her — and me. And you, she fears.

The question now is how to best get New Jersey ready, she says.

Read more at NJ.com.


2 COMMENTS

  1. Panicking. She must be a Deep State criminal expecting to be arrested or taken to Gitmo making believe we’re all going to get it. No, we’re not all going to get it because we’re not all criminals. G-d fearing people who are sick have the common flu or perhaps pneumonia even though the hospital put the corona label on them. We’re not all sleeping.

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