New Jersey’s Elected Leaders Will Not Fail the Public on Coronavirus

Together, a bipartisan coalition of officials and experts are protecting the citizens of New Jersey through years of preparedness work.

New Jersey Governor Phil Murphy holds conference calls on coronavirus updates with the department of health, school leaders, business community, and local and county officials on March 3, 2020 (Edwin J. Torres for Governor’s Office).

The primary responsibility of any government is keeping its citizens safe.

As such, the Coronavirus has resulted in comprehensive, bipartisan cooperation between the U.S. government, state and local agencies, and even private sector companies and organizations.

The people tasked with safe-guarding public health, Democrats and Republicans at every level, have risen to the challenge of this latest outbreak.

Scientific experts have been warning about potential global pandemic outbreaks for decades; U.S. public health agencies are ready. No one in the U.S. needs to panic about the Coronavirus.

“The public-health system has a playbook to follow for pandemic preparation- regardless of who’s president or whether specific instructions are coming from the White House. Those plans were put into place in anticipation of another flu pandemic, but are designed to work for any respiratory-borne disease.” — Associated Press. February 26, 2020.

When news of the Coronavirus broke in December, the Trump administration wasted no time in deploying the preparedness strategies and tactics…