BLACKWOOD Come and get a COVID vaccination at Camden County College.
Camden County officials stated and repeated that call to action Wednesday on the community college campus, during opening day for the county s biggest COVID vaccination site.
But officials were clear that, while they want residents to get vaccinated, not everyone is eligible yet. So far, only people in Phase 1A and certain people in Phase 1B of New Jersey s rollout plan can visit the local site.
Phase 1A now includes healthcare workers and non-hospital healthcare personnel, like doctors and pharmacists. Phase 1B groups that are eligible include emergency medical services personnel and police officers.
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As a nurse at Jefferson Hospital in Washington Township, Stephens has cared for COVID-19 patients since the spring outbreak. Stephens works in the intensive care unit, so she usually sees people at the sickest time of the disease, she said.
During this time, the patients can t leave the unit or have their families at their bedsides. They also don t always do well, Stephens added. Getting the vaccine was an easy choice for me, she concluded.
Stephens was the first of 30 Jefferson Health New Jersey employees to take the vaccine Tuesday, at the hospital system s administrative building in Voorhees. The South Jersey-based system received the Moderna vaccine on Monday, according to Brian Sweeney, Jefferson New Jersey s president and COO.