Get vaccinated on your way to the beach?
When you head down the shore, before you hit the beach you might be able to get a COVID-19 test or even a vaccine.
Dancer says these mobile testing and vaccination centers could help protect the health and safety of tourism and hospitality professionals, year-round coastal residents, and tourists considering vacations at the shore. He also believes it would support an economic recovery down the shore while responsibly addressing coronavirus concerns.
The New Jersey Tourism industry has been disproportionally effected by pandemic restrictions and there continues to be much anxiety about the summer of 2021. Even as attractions and destinations prepare to open in a few weeks, enough restrictions remain in place to make many businesses worried about how they will fare this year after a disastrous 2020.
A billthat would create a new oversight board at New Jersey s three veterans homes, where 204 have died from COVID-19, took its first step forward Monday when an Assembly committee approved it.
During an emotional hourlong hearing on the measure, several victims family members voiced support for the new board, which would do everything from recommending standards of care to reviewing reported violations, complaints and investigations. Whatever is in place is broken, said Lisa Tonery, whose father, John Verducci, died at the Menlo Park home in April.
The Paramus and Menlo Park homes have some of the highest death tolls in the nation among nursing homes.