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UpdatedTue, Dec 15, 2020 at 9:48 am ET
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The other hospitals who got the Pfizer vaccine in the first round are Hackensack University Medical Center, University Health in Newark, AtlantiCare Regional Medical Center in Atlantic City and Cooper University Hospital in Camden. (Google Earth)
NEW BRUNSWICK, NJ The main campus of Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital in New Brunswick is among the first batch of hospitals in the state to receive Pfizer s coronavirus vaccine.
The state of New Jersey has 76,050 doses of the Pfizer vaccine to give in the first round.
The other hospitals who got it in the first round are University Health in Newark (also part of the RWJ-Barnabas network), Hackensack University Medical Center, Morristown Medical Center, AtlantiCare Regional Medical Center in Atlantic City and Cooper University Hospital in Camden. All have arctic-level, subzero freezers in place to store the vaccines.
The first New Jerseyan to receive a vaccine for Covid-19 was a nurse at University Hospital in Newark who was celebrating her birthday on Tuesday.
Prior to getting the vaccine, the technician administering the dose asked Maritza Beniquez, 56, if she had been exposed to Covid-19 in the last 14 days.
“Yes,“ said Beniquez, who works in the hospital’s emergency room. “Every day.”
Moments later, ambulatory care technician Sady Ferguson injected the Pfizer vaccine into Beniquez’s right arm. Beniquez leaned back and clapped as University Hospital officials, Gov. Phil Murphy, First Lady Tammy Murphy, Health Commissioner Judith Persichilli and Essex County Executive Joe DiVincenzo looked on.
UpdatedWed, Dec 16, 2020 at 4:31 pm ET
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Officials gave out the state’s first round of COVID-19 vaccines from Pfizer/BioNTech to health care workers at University Hospital in Newark, NJ on Tuesday. (Edwin Torres/Office of Governor Phil Murphy)
NEWARK, NJ Since the beginning of the coronavirus pandemic, the health care workers at University Hospital in Newark have battled, cheered and wept alongside their patients. And perhaps it s only fitting that the first COVID-19 vaccination in the Garden State was given in one of its hardest-hit cities.
On Tuesday morning, officials gave out the state s first round of COVID-19 vaccines from Pfizer/BioNTech to health care workers at University Hospital.
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