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COVID-19 vaccine logistics are tough as it is, but inoculating transient people living in homeless shelters or on the street adds more layers of complication.
State officials and shelter workers in New Jersey are grappling with tough questions: How do you make sure people get a second dose of the vaccine if they don’t regularly return to one shelter? How do you build trust and persuade people to take a vaccine, especially if there are complicating factors, such as a fear of needles? Where would vaccines be administered if shelters don’t have health care workers on site to help? What if people don’t have access to a computer to make an appointment for a vaccine?
Vaccinating the general public for COVID is hard enough. What about NJ s homeless?
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COVID-19 vaccine logistics are tough as it is, but inoculating transient people living in homeless shelters or on the street adds more layers of complication.
State officials and shelter workers in New Jersey are grappling with tough questions: How do you make sure people get a second dose of the vaccine if they don’t regularly return to one shelter? How do you build trust and persuade people to take a vaccine, especially if there are complicating factors, such as a fear of needles? Where would vaccines be administered if shelters don’t have health care workers on site to help? What if people don’t have access to a computer to make an appointment for a vaccine?