On Monday, New Jersey expanded COVID vaccine eligibility to the general public.
As long as you are 16 or older and live, work or study in the state, you can get the shot, according to officials.
In South Jersey, vaccination sites with the Pfizer vaccine are opening appointments to residents 16 and older, officials said. Locations with only the Moderna vaccine are making spots available to those 18 and older.
Moderna did not conduct vaccine trials on Americans younger than 18, so it is not usable for teenagers younger than that. Pfizer tested its product on teens of all ages.
The third COVID vaccine, the one-shot Johnson & Johnson product which is on pause after some women developed blood clots after taking their doses was also only available to adults 18 and older.
CAMDEN Instagram is the app for the influencer, and now some Rutgers-Camden nursing students are using it to influence city residents to get vaccinated.
Anastasia Dudzinski, a Rutgers-Camden senior, started an Instagram account in February to highlight stories of people who take their shots at the Salvation Army Kroc Community Center, the COVID vaccination site in Camden s Cramer Hill neighborhood.
Dudzinski and a dozen or so classmates are working the site each Monday, guiding residents through the line, observing them in the 15-minute waiting area and approaching several to learn their stories.
Christina Neal, a senior nursing student, makes use of her easy-to-talk-to style as the group s interviewer, approaching patients, making connections and asking questions.
CAMDEN Cooper University Hospital is opening a COVID-19 vaccination center for Camden residents in Cramer Hill.
The healthcare network will unveil the site at the Salvation Army Kroc Community Center in Camden s Cramer Hill neighborhood Saturday.
Cramer Hill and East Camden are home to 38 percent of Camden s population and account for 44 percent of its COVID-19 cases, according to a Cooper news release announcing the new location.
Camden has been hit harder than any other municipality in the county. More than 8,000 COVID cases have been counted in the city of just over 77,000 residents. That s almost twice as many as the next-most affected towns of Cherry Hill and Gloucester Township, which have seen about 4,500 cases each.