No Nursing Home COVID-19 Vaccines On Monday; NJ Missed Deadline
(Thomas Costello, Gannett) NEW JERSEY – New Jersey is starting coronavirus vaccinations a week later because officials have admitted to missing the deadline for federal approval. Health Commissioner Judith Persichilli said this weekend that New Jersey and nursing homes were supposed to submit the paperwork for approval by Dec. 7th so the vaccinations could start by Monday. But they missed the deadline by a day. Now the vaccinations can't start until Dec. 28th. Subscribe "We asked to start on the 21st and they said, 'No, you'll start on the 28th,' " Persichilli said. "It was as simple as tha...