How NJ Teachers Will Get COVID Vaccines: New Information Released patch.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from patch.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
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NEW JERSEY New Jersey officials say they re addressing the continued complaints with the state s COVID vaccine system by expanding its vaccine call center and hiring more people to help make appointments. CVS also added a number of sites that provide immunization.
Health Commissioner Judith Persichilli said she was informed this weekend that there are 80 operators who have been fully trained to make appointments, but that number will be scaling up over the next few weeks.
Persichill, speaking during Gov. Phil Murphy s Friday news conference, said the call center is expanding the number of vaccine site appointments that can be scheduled through the system. The call center will place a special focus on contacting those older than 75 who are preregistered in the vaccination system.
COVID-19 Vaccines To Expand To NJ Teachers, Daycare Workers patch.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from patch.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
UpdatedTue, Mar 2, 2021 at 12:56 pm ET
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NEW JERSEY - Now that more than 2 million vaccine doses of the coronavirus vaccine have been distributed in the state, several regulations around activities in New Jersey have shifted.
Citing increased vaccination efforts and data-based evidence that hospitalizations are decreasing, Gov. Phil Murphy has rolled back several coronavirus restrictions, and more could be on the way
(see list of activities that have reopened since May, as well the new limits imposed, below).
Many more sites – particularly those at Rite Aid and CVS – are now available for vaccines, and New Jersey announced that Johnson & Johnson will provide more than 70,000 doses to New Jersey as early as this week.
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NEW JERSEY New Jersey expects to receive about 70,000 doses of the Johnson & Johnson COVID-19 vaccine next week if the U.S. Food and Drug Administration approves an emergency use authorization this weekend, Gov. Phil Murphy said Friday.
The FDA was meeting Friday to consider the request from the New Jersey-based pharmaceutical giant. Johnson & Johnson officials said the company could deliver 20 million doses by the end of March. Our plan is to begin shipping immediately upon emergency use authorization, and deliver enough single-doses by the end of March to enable the vaccination of more than 20 million Americans, Dr. Richard Nettles, vice president of U.S. medical affairs at Janssen Pharmaceutical Companies/Johnson & Johnson, told Congress on Tuesday. We are confident in our plans to deliver 100 million single-dose vaccines to the United States during the first half of 2021.