Gov. Phil Murphy on Thursday morning described a new, narrower approach to combat the spread of COVID-19 in the coming months, zeroing in on communities in need instead of blanket restrictions across the state.
“We are less likely to use blunt instruments that we used in March and April when we shut the garage doors down on everything, and much more likely to use a scalpel and go into a particular community,” Murphy said during an interview on CNBC’s “Squawk Box.”
He said higher education has been a challenge, but resources have been moved there, including contact tracing and testing capacity.
“I sure as heck hope if we’re taking action that it’s that scalpel as opposed to the blunt instruments that we were using in the spring,” Murphy added.
"We are less likely to use blunt instruments that we used in March and April when we shut the garage doors down on everything, and much more likely to use a scalpel and go into a particular community. For instance, higher education has been a challenge," says @GovMurphy pic.twitter.com/FWP7PRGQPp
— Squawk Box (@SquawkCNBC) October 15, 2020
Molly Bilinski
Staff Writer
My beat is public safety, following police and crime. I started in January 2018 here at the Press covering Egg Harbor and Galloway townships. Before that, I worked at the Reading Eagle in Reading, Pa., covering crime and writing obituaries.
