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Study Says New Jersey Residents Use Smartphones Different Than Most Americans
Everywhere you go, you see people on their smartphones. Whether they are scrolling on social media apps, typing up emails, or replying to text messages, everyone stays connected with today with their phones.
We all have applications on our smartphones we do not need or will use any time soon. Aside from the apps that come with your phone when you purchase it, there are a plethora of others on your device that you downloaded and used only a couple of times.
According to a joint press release by Charter and Company along with Vivid Ads, they gathered data from thousands of smartphone users to find out how often Americans are removing apps from their phones.
What Does New Study Say About Americans and Smartphone Apps
They found there are over 8,000 searches every month on Google for “How to delete social media” and many of the people performing those searches next proceed to remove apps from their devices.
The research by Charter and Company, 48.1 percent of Americans are deleting apps off their smartphones. The number one app most frequently removed from United States residents’ phones is TikTok at a rate of 1 of every 42 Americans.
Researchers at Vivid Ads found that after TikTok, the other apps that Americans are removing from their phones at the highest rates are Tinder (1 in every 48 US Citizens), Twitter/X (1 in every 53 Americans), and Snapchat (1 in every 76 US Citizens).
How Does New Jersey Compare to the rest of America?
While almost half of United States Citizens are choosing to delete apps from their smartphones, New Jersey is not following this trend. The researchers at Charter and Company found that only 27.8 percent of New Jersey residents are removing apps from their devices.
Residents of The Garden State are removing apps from their phones at the second lowest rate of any state in America. New Jersey is just ahead of Wisconsin at 22.1 Percent. But the residents in The Garden State are not alone in the Northeast.
Pennsylvania residents also are below the national average with only 33.3 percent of residents deleting apps from their smartphones (4th lowest in the United States). Also, New Jersey’s northern neighbors in New York have the 9th lowest percentage of residents removing apps from their devices (38.4 percent).
Other states in the Northeast that are well below the national average are Massachusetts (34.6 percent) and Connecticut (37.8 percent).
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Monmouth County hospital among World’s Best Hospitals for 2026
Ranney School student plays music for Monmouth Medical Center patients
Ava Silva Costa, a sophomore at the Ranney School in Tinton Falls, has started Arturo Healing Hearts, bringing her violin music to area hospitals.
Hospitals are an important need in the world.
And finding a facility with high-quality medical care that’s reliable is also important.
Newsweek, the premier news magazine and website, has partnered with Statista to release a dependable guidance list of the World’s Best Hospitals – United States for 2026.
In it’s eight year, these ranking highlights the leading hospitals around the globe so readers can find information tailored to their needs and location the report stated.
Each hospital was reviewed and given a score based on four data sources: recommendations from medical experts; hospital quality metrics, existing patient experience data and Statista’s Patient-Reported Outcome Measures Implementation Survey.
In typical New Jersey fashion, the Garden State makes the list among the 2,500 hospitals that were evaluated this year.
Nine hospitals from the Garden State made the list with one representing Monmouth County. With an overall score of 61.79% and the Infection Prevention Award, Monmouth Medical Center in Long Branch made the top 9 list for roster in World’s Best Hospitals 2026 from Newsweek.
World’s Best Hospitals 2026 in New Jersey
- No. 53: Atlantic Health Morristown Medical Center in Morristown; overall score: 70.74%
- No. 56: Hackensack University Medical Center in Hackensack; overall score: 70.07%
- No. 134: The Valley Hospital in Paramus; overall score: 65.36%
- No. 186: Atlantic Health Overlook Medical Center in Summit; overall score: 64.42%
- No. 254: Englewood Hospital and Medical Center in Englewood; overall score: 63.13%
- No. 320: Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital in New Brunswick; overall score: 62.26%
- No. 364: Newark Beth Israel Medical Center in Newark; overall score: 61.82%
- No. 366: Penn Medicine Princeton Medical Center in Plainsboro; overall score: 61.80%
- No. 367: Monmouth Medical Center in Long Branch; overall score: 61.79%
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Newly released body cam footage shows response to massive industrial explosion in Gloucester County
LOGAN TWP., N.J. (WPVI) — Newly released body camera footage gives us a first look at the heroic actions of first responders on the scene of a massive industrial explosion in Gloucester County earlier this month.
The explosion happened at an industrial facility in Logan Township, New Jersey, on March 4 and left several workers injured.
The initial blast could be heard miles away.
Now, we are getting a look at the frantic rush to help in the moments after it happened.
New details released after massive explosion at Logan Twp., New Jersey factory
In the footage, you can hear the police officers frantically trying to locate people who were injured by the blast at Savita Naturals.
Large propane tanks burned in the background as rescuers tried to account for any survivors.
At one point, first responders are seen running inside the building to look for people. You can see damaged walls and debris everywhere.
Four people were injured in the blast, with one of them being thrown off the roof and into the woods near the water tower.
Amazingly, the worker was found alive by a fence. He was badly burned, but able to talk.
First responders had to load him in a truck and get him to the road, where a Logan Township officer tried to keep him calm as they waited for an ambulance.
Body cam video shows an officer calling the man’s wife to let her know he was alive.
That officer stayed by his side until he was finally loaded into a police car and rushed to the hospital.
The cause of the explosion remains under investigation.
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