Entire senior home in New Jersey, 94 people, presumed to have coronavirus – NBC News, NBC News

While not every patient has been tested, and not all results have returned yet, officials said they had no choice but to assume the worst.

“This is the presumption,” Hagerty told NBC News. “That all have been exposed and would be positive.”

All of the St. Joseph’s patients and residents were being taken to CareOne at Hanover, a senior facility in Whippany, about miles away, on Wednesday.

And to make room for the incoming St. Joseph’s patients, all 60 People at CareOne had to be moved on Tuesday in a plan by developed state health authorities, a CareOne representative said Wednesday.

Thirty were transported to a CareOne facility in Morristown, to Parsippany, 7 to Livingston and one more was hospitalized for a condition not related to the coronavirus, the CareOne rep.

“So (the St. Joseph’s patients) tested positive, so they couldn’t co-mingle” with the CareOne Hanover residents, the company rep said.

“The (CareOne) families were understanding. Certainly it was an inconvenience, but this is a national health emergency.”