Are people in N.J. really lying to get the vaccine before it’s their turn?
Updated Mar 14, 2021;
Posted Mar 12, 2021
Registration kiosks are set up inside the Gloucester County COVID-19 vaccination site in Sewell, N.J. on Monday, Jan. 11, 2021.
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Tom lives and works in a border county in New York, where his job sometimes requires him to work in a health care setting. In January, when he learned he qualified for the COVID-19 vaccine, he tried and failed to get an appointment in the Empire State.
So he registered instead on New Jersey’s Vaccine Scheduling System and got an appointment at the Gloucester County Mega Vaccination Site. It was a two-hour drive each way, but by mid-February, he was fully vaccinated.
In California s San Diego County, a health department spokesperson assured
MedPage Today in an email, All vaccinators are required to have received the vaccination prior to administering vaccines.
But the reality on the ground appears quite different.
Sherry Franklin, MD, former president of the county medical society and a retired pediatric endocrinologist, said no one ever asked her if she had received her shots when she applied to be a vaccinator for the county health department. When she showed up for her first shift on Jan. 24, no one offered it to her then either. Luckily, she d managed to get her first shot through her connections a week earlier, but had no appointment for her second shot.
How N.J. screwed up its plan to make scheduling a COVID vaccine easier
Updated Jan 30, 2021;
Posted Jan 30, 2021
After receiving the vaccine at the Rowan Medicine COVID-19 Vaccination Center, patients are seated in the spaced-out chairs for 15 minutes to be monitored for any possible reaction Wednesday, Jan. 27, 2021. The clinic is at the Rowan University School of Osteopathic Medicine in Stratford.Lori M. Nichols | NJ Advance Media for NJ.com
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When state officials launched the statewide COVID-19 vaccine scheduling system Jan. 5, it sounded promising. Register with some basic information and when you become eligible you’ll be notified and sent a link to the state’s dashboard where you can make an appointment.
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What do you do when your COVID-19 vaccine clinic is 20 minutes from closing, only six people showed up for the day s last appointment, and you just opened a 10-dose Moderna vial?
Reports suggest that many clinics dump their leftover doses in the trash.
But some facilities have found solutions to minimize vaccine waste. Relying on constant communication, flexible planning, and a focused workforce including diligent volunteers, they said they have found takers for nearly all the thousands of doses they have prepared since vaccinations began last month. So far this has been not a hard problem to solve, said Dora Anne Mills, MD, who is coordinating the 11-hospital MaineHealth system s vaccination sites. It s really about planning and keeping an eye on things.