With J&J vaccine shelved, Bayonne forges ahead with Moderna
With J&J vaccine shelved, Bayonne forges ahead with Moderna ×
The vaccine primarily administered in Bayonne has been the Moderna vaccine.
After the state of New Jersey ordered the temporary pause in the use of all Johnson & Johnson COVID-19 vaccines in the state, Bayonne Mayor James Davis announced, “We will not use J&J until we have state approval to do so.”
Hudson County has also paused administering the J&J vaccine out of an abundance of caution following guidance from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), Food and Drug Administration (FDA) and the state.
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The site will open on Wednesday, April 15th at 9:00 a.m. at the city’s high school ice rink, located on West 28th Street. For the time being, they will be administering the Moderna vaccine.
“The City of Bayonne has invited Bespoke Health to our community, in order to vaccinate more Bayonne residents and offer additional choices to local healthcare consumers,“ Mayor Jimmy Davis said in a statement.
“We look forward to working with Bespoke Health to improve Bayonne’s vaccination rate at this crucial time.”
Bespoke received a $1 million contract in January to operate a COVID-19 vaccination site in Jersey City and is currently overseeing multiple sites throughout the city, in addition to mobile units.
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Vaccination efforts will expand in Jersey City, according to Mayor Steven Fulop as the FEMA- backed community vaccine distribution program is scheduled to operate out of local places of worship starting next week.
A new program will begin on March 8 to vaccinate Jersey City residents through places of worship in the Bergen/ Lafayette and Heights neighborhoods.
According to the county, it will help launch the new community vaccine distribution program backed by the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) through a partnership with Governor Phil Murphy and Jersey City Mayor Steven Fulop.
The program is set to provide 3,000 first and second doses targeted at under-served communities in Jersey City.
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New Jersey’s second most populous city has just one vaccination site open and has never received more than 1,000 doses in a week.
Officials say they’re doing the best they can to vaccinate the city’s senior population, but like most other vaccinators, they’re begging for more medicine.
That’s why Mayor Steve Fulop invited Gov. Phil Murphy to see just how well the site is performing and how much more it could handle, he said. Murphy accepted the offer and came for a tour Wednesday with state Health Commissioner Judy Persichilli.