Tag: COVID-19 vaccine
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Artis Senior Living will hold vaccine clinic for residents, staff members
Artis Senior Living will be among the first memory care facilities to hold a COVID-19 vaccine clinic. Located at 861 Alexander Road in Princeton, the community will make the vaccines available to residents and staff members beginning Feb. 3. “Today is an exciting day as we take an enormous step in fighting back against this…
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COVID-19 vaccinations bring hope to long-term residents, staff at Reformed Church Home
OLD BRIDGE – Residents and staff members at Reformed Church Home (RCH) in Old Bridge received the first dose of the two-dose Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine on Jan. 5, just three weeks after the vaccine became available in New Jersey. Evelyn Arndt, who celebrated her 104th birthday on Dec. 25, was one of the first recipients…
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Pharmacy at Hillsborough Shoprite offers COVID vaccine to health care workers
A list of locations for health care workers to be vaccinated was supplied by the NJ Department of Health. Currently, the Hillsborough Shoprite Pharmacy at 601 Route 206 is on the list. Additional vaccination sites may be added. This is for Phase 1A Group: health care workers, who are paid and unpaid persons serving in…
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Burlington County begins administering COVID-19 vaccine to EMS workers
The Burlington County Department of Health has received its first shipment of Moderna COVID-19 vaccine and has started administering the first doses to Emergency Medical Services (EMS) workers and other healthcare workers in a manner consistent with New Jersey’s phased COVID-19 vaccination plan. “The authorization of the first safe and effective vaccines is something…
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Local nursing homes receive COVID-19 vaccine
Residents of the Morris Hall and Clover Meadows long-term care facilities, along with staff, are expected to receive the first COVID-19 vaccinations as the inoculation program begins to roll out in the nursing homes this week, Lawrence Township officials said. Arrangements have been made for the CVS and Walgreens drug store chains to administer the…
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Saint Peter’s health care workers receive first doses of Moderna vaccine
Saint Peter’s University Hospital, a member of Saint Peter’s Healthcare System, began administering the long-anticipated Moderna vaccine for COVID-19 on Dec. 22. Initial vaccinations will be disseminated to hospital employees and physicians with the highest levels of patient interaction and those specifically caring for COVID-19 patients. During a phased process, eventually all employees and physicians…
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COVID-19 vaccinations to begin in long-term care facilities
Residents of the Princeton Care Center nursing home and the Acorn Glen assisted living facility, along with healthcare workers, are expected to receive the first COVID-19 vaccinations as the inoculation program rolls out during the week of Dec. 28, Princeton officials announced. Arrangements have been made for the CVS and Walgreens drug store chains to…
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Former Merck official talks about potential COVID-19 vaccines
The former president of the Merck Vaccine Division of Merck & Co. believes that despite ramped-up efforts to develop a vaccine against COVID-19, scientists are more likely to develop anti-viral treatments first. Gordon Douglas, M.D., spoke about COVID-19 and what it takes to develop a vaccine in the May 18 episode of Princeton University’s podcast,…
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Opinion: Area psychiatrist urges Congress to push for a COVID-19 vaccine
We’re approaching the start of the third month of New Jersey’s fight against COVID-19. I regularly quantify how much time has passed as it seems the normalcy we knew earlier this year is worlds away. As a health care professional, I don’t see much relief in sight; though we’ve passed our peak, the destruction this…