Corporate infrastructure in the State of New Jersey is disappointing to say the least. Every pharmaceutical company has at least a corporate headquarters in New Jersey. Johnson & Johnson has major manufacturing plants in that state.
In Newark, there are magnificent Level I hospitals.
Level I Trauma Center is a comprehensive regional resource that is a tertiary care facility central to the trauma system. A Level I Trauma Center is capable of providing total care for every aspect of injury – from prevention through rehabilitation.
Elements of Level I Trauma Centers Include:
- 24-hour in-house coverage by general surgeons, and prompt availability of care in specialties such as orthopedic surgery, neurosurgery, anesthesiology, emergency medicine, radiology, internal medicine, plastic surgery, oral and maxillofacial, pediatric and critical care.
- Referral resource for communities in nearby regions.
- Provides leadership in prevention, public education to surrounding communities.
- Provides continuing education of the trauma team members.
- Incorporates a comprehensive quality assessment program.
- Operates an organized teaching and research effort to help direct new innovations in trauma care.
- Program for substance abuse screening and patient intervention.
- Meets minimum requirement for annual volume of severely injured patients.
Ortho Diagnostics should be tasked to manufacture as many of their tests as possible, now. There is no reason why Ortho has a shortage of monies, Goldman-Sachs purchased that branch of J&J years ago. Goldman needs to pour financing into the potential of Ortho to solve this issue.
Aiding in the detection of antibodies to SARS-CoV-2 (click here) that can be used to detect immune response to the virus and support epidemiological research to help better understand the spread of the disease.
The Ortho plant in Raritan is enormous and has significant potential. Where are the people that can do the job?
Manufacturing Operator 3, Reagent Prep (click here)
Squibb Laboratories (click here)
Lawrenceville, New Jersey - Princeton Pike
FUNCTION(S): COMMERCIAL, GLOBAL PRODUCT DEVELOPMENT & SUPPLY, R&D, ENABLING FUNCTIONS
The 650,000-square foot facility opened in November 2016.
The Princeton Pike site houses employees from the Commercial teams, their commercialization and late-stage development partners from Research & Development and Global Product Development & Supply, and their enabling function support teams.
Squibb already has global relationships. Princeton University in Princeton, New Jersey have PhD that can be tasked to assist.
Hopewell, New Jersey
The 433-acre campus offers almost one million square feet of laboratories, office space and computing facilities.
The Hopewell location is a Research & Development facility focused on our key therapeutic areas.
The pharmaceutical industry in New Jersey is endless. (click here) There is no reason for shortages of medicines. They should be meeting with the Governor through conference calls to find common ground for the solution and expediting MEDICAL SUPPLIES, including medicines.
I don't know if the old agricultural labs of American Cyanamid is still empty and standing on Quakerbridge Road. The buildings, if standing and safe can be converted into hospital rooms. The Army Corp. could conduct assessments that can move this space to be reutilized. There are labs and greenhouses to produce raw materials if that is a better use of the space.
The capacity of New Jersey to mobilize in response to this novel virus should never be in question. There are vast resources in that state as well as it being the most densely populated state which will facilitate the spread of the virus. Stay at home is extremely important in NJ.
The population of Camden, NJ is 48.5% Hispanic or Latino, 41% Black or African American Alone, and 5.92% White Alone.
The population of Newark, NJ is 47% Black or African American Alone, 39.2% Hispanic or Latino, and 8.88% White Alone. N/A% of the people in Newark, NJ speak a non-English language, and 82.1% are U.S. citizens.
Newark has a large minority population as well, however, Camden has far less infrastructure to address any COVID-19 outbreak. Facilities and staff and plenty of medical supplies need to be targeted for Camden. It is easier to work with Philadelphia in attracting help and building facilities that can potentially care for both city populations if the outbreak is large and beds are needed.
The New Jersey beach counties are experiencing COVID-19 deaths. I don't recall major hospitals in those counties. Atlantic and Cape May counties may need to address any anticipated spike with personnel and facilities if the hospitals in those counties are lacking enough capacity. Businesses of the beach counties are basically closed. It is a perfect paradigm for stay at home.
Port Elizabeth (click here) is APM Terminals' largest terminal on the east coast of North America, and offers the largest reefer capacity in the port of New York and New Jersey. The terminals four ZPMC ship-to-shore super post-panamax cranes are capable of handling the largest container vessels on the water today, up to 23 containers wide on-deck.
FOOD. Perishable goods. Port Elizabeth is an extremely important shipping port with established trucking companies use to moving perishable goods along the entire east coast.
The little known secret (click here) is New Jersey's agricultural community including historic dairies. Besides milking cows, there are field crops such as soybeans and winter wheat on the land in New Jersey. But, New Jersey's best agricultural effort is "Truck Farming." PRODUCE. Veggies and fruits, especially berries. New Jersey had a climate that could grow intense cropping with rich land. I can only speculate how much of that rich farmland still exists. New Jersey had a program to preserve farmland for 99 years. I believe the state is still in that 99-year window and ensures plenty of capable farmers.
New Jersey has the potential of providing many ingredients to the American effort. It has large minority communities that are going to need help if there is a significant uptick to COVID-19. That is a challenge New Jersey has to rise to but it will need help in doing so.
