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NJ will give first COVID-19 vaccine shots at University Hospital
Published: December 13, 2020
Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine boxes were prepared to be shipped at the Pfizer Global Supply Kalamazoo manufacturing plant on December 13, 2020 in Portage, Michigan. (Photo by Morry Gash - Pool/Getty Images)
Gov. Phil Murphy has confirmed that New Jersey will be distributing its first COVID-19 vaccine shots this week to health care workers and long-term care facility residents and staff.
Murphy said that 76,000 doses would be administered starting on Tuesday morning at University Hospital in Newark, sharing the news on Twitter on Sunday.
The governor said he would be there along with Health Commissioner Judith Persichilli, who had said on Friday that the first doses were just days away, pending the federal government s final approval.
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Food and Drug Administration (FDA) panel recommended the Pfizer coronavirus vaccine be approved for Emergency Use Authorization Thursday night, putting it a step closer to full approval and delivery to Americans within days.
The federal government and the State of New Jersey have said the first doses will first be given to health care workers and nursing home residents. It could make a big difference in the lives of those who have faced isolation from their loved ones and increased risk of infection as the virus spreads.
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In the case of having bluish lips with COVID-19, “most people have other symptoms,” says John Sellick, D.O., an infectious disease expert and professor of medicine at the University at Buffalo/SUNY in New York. “Usually, they’ll also be short of breath or huffing and puffing.”
However, “there have been people who, for whatever reason, don’t have other symptoms” beyond having bluish lips, says infectious disease expert Amesh A. Adalja, M.D., senior scholar at the Johns Hopkins Center for Health Security. While this is incredibly rare, they’re referred to as “happy hypoxics,” he explains. They “don’t have any other symptoms but have remarkably low oxygen levels.”