More than 1.8 million New Jersey residents have received doses of the coronavirus vaccine so far since its launch late last year, though that number may start to rise at a faster rate as the supply of the vaccine grows to the overwhelming to meet demand.
In the near future, the Moderna and Pfizer-BioNTech vaccines will not be the only vaccines available in New Jersey. The U.S. Food and Drug Administration announced Wednesday that Johnson & Johnson’s single-shot COVID-19 vaccine meets the requirement for emergency permits, and that it can be approved by the federal government within days.
The pharmaceutical giant in New Brunswick also reported on Tuesday that by the end of next month it could supply enough of the vaccine to immunize more than 20 million Americans.
Vaccinations across the state have also increased recently. Earlier this month, New Jersey expanded its COVID-19 vaccine distribution program to a number of worship services and community centers, and introduced a federal retail pharmacy program with Rite Aid and CVS.
However, despite the coming influx of vaccine doses, residents eligible for the shot remain limited to the priority groups – especially health workers, first responders, people over 65 and those with chronic health conditions.
All New Jersey residents can pre-register for the vaccine through the state’s online COVID-19 vaccination registration website. The state also offers a vaccination call center, but announced earlier this month that the ability to request an appointment has been temporarily suspended in the wake of reports that people stopped for hours in the meantime while trying to get through to come, as well as that others are not able to make any appointments.
New Jersey does not have a streamlined vaccine vaccination system, which means that countless counties, municipalities, healthcare systems and other institutions can make appointments themselves.
Many of these institutions provide useful online and telephonic resources to people who want to obtain information about scheduling an appointment or help others who are not technically proficient or do not have easy access to a computer.
Residents who are still struggling to plan appointments in light of the overwhelming demand are also turning to the New Jersey Covid Vaccine Info, a Facebook group founded by two New Jersey residents, where people can ask questions about, guidance can offer and even volunteer to help each other. by scheduling appointments to receive the COVID-19 vaccine.
An appointment is required at almost all vaccination sites. Cases in which people were able to get a chance without planning ahead are extremely rare – not least because even if officials are willing to take the information from people hoping to get a chance in instead of an appointment without showing up, they won ‘contact them not necessarily.
“We can not just decide if we are eligible,” Leslie Kantor, a professor at the Rutgers School of Public Health, told NJ Advance Media earlier. ‘Some people, it’s quite clear. Healthcare workers, they are going to get through right away. ”
Office has approved that New Jersey residents are eligible to make appointments with various sites, as long as they remain accountable if they overbook themselves.
“Because we have a challenging supply situation and do not have a centralized schedule, it is obviously good to try to get appointments in different places,” Kantor said. “If you get more than one, cancel one.”
The Rockaway Townsquare in Morris county, one of the six mega-sites for coronavirus vaccination, is planning online appointments with the Atlantic Health System, which will also allow individuals to sign up to receive vaccinations sent to their phone or email address.
On the vaccinations mega-premises at the Atlantic City Convention Center, appointments are made online by AtlantiCare; at the Meadowlands Racing and Entertainment Complex vaccination site in Bergen County, appointments can virtually be made with Hackensack Meridian Health.
Both in the Moorestown Mall Burlington county and the New Jersey Convention and Exposition Center in Middlesex county requires qualified individuals to first complete a separate online vaccine registration form with Virtua Health and Robert Wood Johnson Barnabas Health, respectively, after which they will receive an email or text message to schedule their appointment.
The Rowan College of South Jersey in Gloucester county make appointments through registrations made on the nationwide website.
In addition to mega-vaccination sites, qualifying New Jersey residents can follow a myriad of other ways to make an appointment to receive the vaccine.
The Department of Health in Burlington county has partnered with the state and Virtua Health to run the mega-website Burlington County at the Moorestown Mall, and announced on its website that the country will not receive vaccines for new first-rate clinics in the coming weeks. The county previously operated clinics at the Burlington County Emergency Services Training Center in Westampton.
Appointments in Burlington County can also be made by visiting the websites of CVS Pharmacy, Rite Aid or Boyd’s Pharmacy locations or visiting the websites of ShopRite Pharmacy, electronically calling or scheduling at Riverside Medical Group’s urgent care facility in Willingboro or the Riverside. Medical group in Moorestown, or make an appointment with the Southern Jersey Family Medical Centers in Buttonwood or Burlington City.
Residents of Hunterdon county will be able to receive a vaccine at clinics in Flemington and coordinated by calling the Department of Health through the province or using the new appointment platform. In addition, they can try to make an appointment with the ShopRite pharmacy in Flemington or Clinton, or the CVS pharmacy in Flemington. Eligible residents can also call the Hunterdon Healthcare vaccination call center to schedule an appointment at one of the many clinics in the network.
Dozens of vaccination opportunities are currently found in Essex county, where medical centers including Hackensack Meridian Health accept online appointments, and various appointments in the Newark Community Health Centers by telephone.
In addition to ShopRite, Rite Aid and CVS pharmacies and small urgent care facilities, there are also health care facilities in Essex county administering the vaccine, which ranges from Vanguard Medical Group – which only accepts the vaccine appointments for its patients through an online schedule app – and St. Michael’s Hospital – where appointments can be made online.
Essex County also offers a range of vaccine clinics for which appointments can be made online.
People who live, work or go to school in Warren county can make an appointment to receive the vaccine online at North Warren High School, the Southwest Branch Library or the Good Will Fire Company.
Warren County residents can make appointments through Hunterdon Healthcare’s Vaccine Call Center for Hunterdon Family Medicine in Riverfield, Washington, or through the Atlantic Health System for Hackettstown Medical Center. St. Luke’s in Phillipsburg requires all individuals wishing to receive the vaccine to create a MyChart account, allowing them to complete the hospital’s short questionnaire and then notify them of their vaccination plans.
The Zufall Health Center is Dover also calls eligible patients to inform them of appointments.
In other provinces, vaccine opportunities are very limited. Apart from the appointment with ShopRite pharmacies in Rio Grande or Marmora or the CVS pharmacy in Villas, Cape May County residents can get the chance at the provincial clinics by pre-registering for the vaccine with the state. The Departments of Health for Medium sex, Somerset, en Trademarks also coordinates appointments at the state rather than at provincial level.
In Salem county, individuals have the option of making an online appointment for vaccination clinics organized by the Department of Health and Human Services. They can also get the chance to contact the Rite Aid in Pilesgrove, call the Salem Medical Center, or by making an online appointment with the Southern Jersey Family Medical Center in Salem.
Some New Jersey residents live in municipalities that have created coronavirus vaccination options for their residents. The Health Department of Vineland in Cumberland county offers vaccine clinics, for which residents can schedule appointments online.
Hoboken in Hudson county has partnered with Riverside Medical Group and Hoboken University Medical Center to provide a coronavirus vaccine to residents and healthcare professionals. Qualifying groups must first complete an online form, after which a staff member will contact them to officially schedule an appointment.
Individuals can register here to receive a coronavirus vaccine from the State Department of Health.
The full list of vaccination opportunities in the state, according to provinces, can be found here.
More information on how to get the COVID-19 vaccine in New Jersey can be found here.
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Caroline Fassett can be reached at [email protected].