Find a Vaccine Site Near You; More Registration FAQs for Tri-State Residents The following guide compiles the basic information on the vaccination plans not only for New York, but the tri-state.
Published January 12, 2021 •
Updated on April 1, 2021 at 10:47 am
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The tri-state continues to take major steps forward in the fight against the coronavirus including opening up who is eligible for vaccination as well as setting up mass vaccination sites to keep the process moving quickly.
Millions are already eligible for shots in New York, New Jersey and Connecticut with eligibility expanding on a regular basis across the three states and the U.S.
Vaccines to protect against COVID-19 have started to arrive in New Jersey in limited quantities.
The first recipients have been hospitals and health care systems. They are currently vaccinating their front-line staffs, starting with those who have the greatest risk of exposure to the coronavirus: employees in the emergency departments, intensive care units and COVID units and labor-and-delivery staff.
Nursing homes are next. CVS and Walgreens started vaccinating nursing home staff and residents the week of Dec. 28. The state-operated veterans’ homes were first.
This first phase of vaccination for Priority Group 1A likely will last through February, Persichilli said.
The timing of the state’s progress through subsequent phases 1B, 1C, 2 and 3 depends on the supply of vaccines to New Jersey. Information about vaccine supplies from Operation Warp Speed, the federal program to develop, manufacture and distribute vaccines against COVID-19,
NorthJersey.com
More than 70% of New Jersey s supply of COVID-19 vaccine has not been used as of Thursday, echoing a national trend of slow distribution, according to data released by state officials.
Of the 265,000 doses of the Pfizer and Moderna vaccines that have been delivered to New Jersey, 72,657 residents had been given a shot by Thursday afternoon.
Despite months of planning, state officials said Wednesday a lack of personnel, along with logistics and timing issues were to blame. We are in the process of setting up hundreds of these [vaccination] locations. Some of them are going to be mega sites, and we have to schedule, Gov. Phil Murphy said at his briefing. Remember, you need health care workers to do this. I m not qualified to deliver these vaccines.
Vaccines to protect against COVID-19 have started to arrive in New Jersey in limited quantities.
The first recipients have been hospitals and health care systems. They are currently vaccinating their front-line staffs, starting with those who have the greatest risk of exposure to the coronavirus: employees in the emergency departments, intensive care units and COVID units and labor-and-delivery staff.
Nursing homes are next. CVS and Walgreens started vaccinating nursing home staff and residents the week of Dec. 28. The state-operated veterans’ homes were first.
This first phase of vaccination for Priority Group 1A likely will last through February, Persichilli said.
The timing of the state’s progress through subsequent phases 1B, 1C, 2 and 3 depends on the supply of vaccines to New Jersey. Information about vaccine supplies from Operation Warp Speed, the federal program to develop, manufacture and distribute vaccines against COVID-19,