Hoboken Schools To Go Remote For One Week After Winter Break

HOBOKEN, NJ — As many superintendent of schools have done in the past few days in New Jersey, Hoboken Superintendent of Schools Christine Johnson said Sunday that Hoboken will go remote for the first week after winter break.

Districts across the state said they made this decision because of rising coronavirus transmission levels, and to avoid problems from families traveling to states with higher transmission and death rates (see which states top that list here).

One North Jersey district, Summit, has actually asked its families to return to New Jersey by Jan. 3 if they want to start school on-site in mid-January.

Johnson wrote in a newsletter on Sunday, "The entire Hoboken Public School District will operate on a remote learning schedule, just as we did the week after Thanksgiving, from Monday, Jan. 4 through Friday, Jan. 8."

She added, "We will once again arrange for COVID-19 testing during the weekend of Jan. 9 and 10."

Last time, when the district tested students, there were 17 positive results.

See the latest travel and quarantine information from New Jersey here.

Find out about upcoming vaccinations for Hudson County here.

Local and national numbers

More than 317,000 Americans have now died of the virus.

Last week, New Jersey reached its highest death toll in six months from the virus, or 97 people in one day.

At the height of the crisis in New Jersey, when testing and PPE were scarce, 460 people died from the virus in 24 hours on April 30.

The death rate had been plummeting over the summer. Back on Sept. 8, three months ago, the state announced two new deaths confirmed in 24 hours.

But deaths began rising again with gatherings, reopenings, and travel to states with higher transmission.

Doctors have said that a number of factors are contributing to the fact that the daily death rate is still lower than spring, including people getting test results (and thus treatment) sooner, more protective equipment available in hospitals, and doctors becoming better able to treat the virus. However, the virus still can have long-term effects.

Use this link to see the updated fatality count in the United States.

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