In all, it captured the global impact of COVID-19 as well as any media product has so far, evoking the universal via the highly specific. “ I’m never more proud of this state than when we have our backs up against the wall,” Stewart said, highlighting the Garden State’s resilience.Įxecutive-produced by Jon Landau, Joel Gallen, Joel Peresman, and Irving Azoff, the show benefited the New Jersey Pandemic Relief Fund. Now, the Jersey death toll from COVID-19 has reached 5,000, making it the second-hardest-hit state in the union. As Jon Stewart and Stephen Colbert both pointed out during Wednesday night’s powerful Jersey 4 Jersey benefit broadcast, the great, unfairly maligned state of New Jersey has taken repeated blows over the past couple of decades, including the death of more than 700 residents on 9/11, and $30 billion of damage from Hurricane Sandy in 2012.
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