New Jersey on Sunday reported two new COVID-19 deaths across the state and 1,527 new confirmed positive tests as the Garden State dropped below Arkansas as the state with the eighth-most coronavirus deaths per capita in the U.S. New Jersey’s seven-day average for confirmed cases was 1,752 on Sunday, up 3% from a week ago, and up 123% from a month ago. There were 440 patients with confirmed or suspected coronavirus cases across 68 of the state’s 71 hospitals as of Saturday night. Three hospitals did not report data. Hospitalizations this year hit a peak at 6,089 on Jan. 10 during the omicron wa…
