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Good Tuesday morning!
We’re probably two days away from the Legislature voting to legalize marijuana.
But did you know that even after weed is legalized, a person caught growing even a relatively modest amount of it could face up to 20 years in prison, including a mandatory minimum sentence?
COVID-19 updates: First N.J. vaccinations today; Urgent cares close; New Year’s plans. What you need to know. (Dec. 15, 2020)
Updated Dec 15, 2020;
Hundreds of New Jersey health care workers are receiving their first of two doses of the coronavirus vaccine on Tuesday, 286 days after the first case was reported in the Garden State.
The vaccinations at University Hospital in Newark are underway a day after Gov. Phil Murphy announced 4,805 COVID-19 cases and 25 more deaths. That brings the state’s totals to 405,448 cases and 17,775 deaths from the virus 15,907 confirmed and 1,868 considered probable fatalities.
Maritza Beniquez, a nurse in the Emergency Department at @UnivHospNewark, prepares to be the first New Jerseyan to receive the @pfizer-@BioNTech Group#COVID19 vaccine. Maritza is a mother of 3, grandmother of 2, and a proud member of HPAE Local 5089. And it’s her bday today! pic.twitter.com/eoMsw9eEa3 Mahen Gunaratna (@GunaRockYa) December 15, 2020
N J coronavirus update: Health care workers to receive first doses of vaccine wbgo.org - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from wbgo.org Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
UpdatedTue, Dec 15, 2020 at 4:28 pm ET
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Sandra Lindsay, a nurse at Long Island Jewish Medical Center, gets her sleeve rolled up before she is inoculated Monday with the Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine. (Mark Lennihan - Pool/Getty Images)
That person is Sandra Lindsay, the director of patient care service at Long Island Jewish Medical Center in Queens, New York, according to her LinkedIn profile. She said taking the vaccine, developed by the American pharmaceutical Pfizer and its German partner BioNTech, on Monday morning felt much like taking other vaccines. It didn t feel any different from taking any other vaccine, Lindsay said.
How NY And NJ Hospitals Are Preparing For The Complicated Vaccination Process
arrow A pharmacist demonstrates drawing the vaccine during a drill Mount Sinai
The first shipment of what is currently the only approved COVID-19 vaccine in the United States is now arriving at hospitals across the country. The very first dose of the Pfizer vaccine was given to a nurse at Long Island Jewish Medical Center in Queens, and hospital staff around the region are working to make sure they can vaccinate their frontline workers as smoothly as possible.
“It s not only making sure that that operation is like clockwork, that staff and every patient is scheduled, that the cycle time is efficient just to make sure folks get through and the schedule is adhered to. But we also have to tie that to the very complex logistics of the vaccine itself, Dr. Shereef Elnahal, CEO of University Hospital in Newark, NJ, told Gothamist/WNYC.