Despite being a small fraction of New Jersey s vaccine allotment, Johnson & Johnson s one-shot COVID vaccine has played an important role in vaccinating some of the state s most at-risk residents.
But those efforts to inoculate homeless people, the homebound, senior citizens and other vulnerable groups are now stalled for at least a week as federal health officials investigate whether the J&J vaccine caused an extremely rare but serious side effect. Each day that we don t have that vaccine is another day when we can t serve the people as we want to, said Howard Haughton, CEO of Eva s Village in Paterson, one of North Jersey s largest social service organizations for homeless people.
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