Gov. Phil Murphy vowed to conduct a review on how the state responded to the coronavirus pandemic. Now, it's set to begin, NJ Advance Media has learned.
, two years and eight months after Murphy first vowed a postmortem on the pandemic in the early days of the crisis.The independent review will be conducted by a team at Philadelphia law firm Montgomery McCracken Walker & Rhoads, led by a Republican former assistant state attorney general. Boston Consulting Group, a Massachusetts management consulting firm, will assist.Murphy initially promised to conduct a postmortem in April 2020, just weeks after COVID-19 began spreading in New Jersey.
“The COVID-19 pandemic was one of the biggest challenges our state — and nation — has ever faced,” Murphy said in a statement. Zoubek also worked for the state Department of Law and Public Safety in the wake of the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks and has overseen numerous investigations into state government.
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