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Tears of relief as workers at N.J. hospital besieged by coronavirus receive vaccine
Updated Dec 23, 2020;
It’s been an emotional few days for employees at Holy Name Medical Center in Teaneck.
But instead of weeping from exhaustion and despair like so many did when the hospital in Bergen County became overwhelmed with COVID-19 patients in the spring, they are crying tears of relief.
Nearly 1,000 nurses, doctors and other front-line employees have rolled up their sleeves to take the Pfizer vaccine since Thursday.
“To be able to tell them the vaccine was here felt good,” Holy Name Medical Center President and CEO Michael Maron said Monday. “I admit I did not expect the overwhelming emotion that accompanied this. it was palpable and so strong like a shockwave through the entire organization that has relieved the pent-up stress and anxiety over what everybody witnessed here.”
NorthJersey.com
Call it a soft opening. The long-awaited rollout of a vaccine to prevent COVID-19 starts Tuesday morning in New Jersey, as health care workers at University Hospital in Newark roll up their sleeves for the shots.
A shipment of 76,050 doses from Pfizer was on its way to the state Sunday, headed for six hospitals. Their freezers are chilled to South Pole-level temperatures. Their priority staff those considered at the greatest risk of exposure to COVID-19 have been identified. The plans are ready.
“Six weeks from now we will have been able to … get to all of our health care workers with two doses,” as required by the vaccines developed by Pfizer and Moderna, Gov. Phil Murphy predicted Friday.