New Jersey is still struggling to keep COVID-19 infections at bay; more than 5,300 new cases were announced Thursday. That’s a total of more than 386,000, with 68 more deaths and roughly 3,500 residents hospitalized with the virus.
What would a Food and Drug Administration-approved vaccine mean for New Jersey? We asked Dr. Daniel Varga, Chief Physician Executive at Hackensack Meridian Health, who joined Anchor Briana Vannozzi.
An Emmy award-winning journalist, Briana Vannozzi serves as the anchor for NJ Spotlight News, the newsroom of NJ PBS. She's worked in several capacities since joining the news division in 2012, as interim anchor and senior correspondent after years of general assignment reporting as a multimedia journalist. Vannozzi began her television journalism career by cutting her teeth on New Jersey State House politics for New Jersey Network News, and later as a news radio correspondent at FM News 101.9 covering crime and politics in New York City. Her work has taken her to national presidential nominating conventions, Capitol Hill, up and down the East Coast and every corner of the Garden State. She's interviewed every New Jersey governor dating back to Jon Corzine and moderated numerous political debates and forums. Her work has also earned awards from the New Jersey Society of Professional Journalists and the Philadelphia Press Association. A Burlington County native, she's honored to be serving and covering her home state and raising her family there.