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Updated Jan 13, 2021;
Posted Jan 10, 2021
Maritza Beniquez, a 56-year-old emergency room nurse at University Hospital in Newark, receiving her second dose of the Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine on Monday, Jan. 4, 2021. Gov. Phil Murphy and state Health Commissioner Judy Persichilli stand beside her.
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The delivery was coming. It was finally coming.
The first shipment of the new COVID-19 vaccine was in transit, and the director of the University Hospital pharmacy was eager for its arrival at the Newark facility.
It was mid-December, the beginning of the nation’s massive vaccine rollout. And University was among the first hospitals in the state to receive doses.