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Rebecca Bryan of Rutgers School of Nursing sits with 86-year-old Turner Pittman for 15 minutes after inoculating him with the COVID-19 vaccine at his apartment in Westfield Towers, Camden, N.J. (Emma Lee/WHYY)
News that New Jersey was going to follow the federal government’s recommendation and pause use of Johnson & Johnson’s vaccine came as health officials had begun to ramp up efforts to inoculate the state’s more than 11,000 homebound people.
Until Tuesday, state and county health officials had relied heavily on the single-dose Johnson & Johnson vaccine to reach people like Camden resident Deloris Barham, who, with help from her nurse, walked across the street from her home at the Baldwin’s Run Senior community complex on Friday to get her shot despite her dislike of needles.