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Trenton NJ, New Jersey will roll out COVID-19 vaccines in phases to serve all who live, work and study in the state. Our goal is to vaccinate 70% of the eligible adult population within six months. This is a huge undertaking, as it could represent as many as 4.7 million individuals. As I have reported in the past, we expect that the demand for the vaccine will outpace the supply, so we will need to initiate vaccine sites in phases to ensure equitable distribution. Currently, vaccines are available to those who are in the 1A category which includes paid and unpaid persons, serving in healthcare settings, who have the potential for direct or indirect exposure to patients or infectious materials, and also long-term care residents and staff.
There are approximately 650,000 healthcare workers in New Jersey. The health and safety of our frontline healthcare workers is our current priority because we need them on the job to care for the increasing number of patients in our hospitals. I am pleased to report that as of today, in our preposition sites, 2,149 healthcare workers have received dose 1 of their vaccine. This week the hospitals will be the only point of dispensing, and their responsibility will be to vaccinate the paid and unpaid individuals serving in their facilities. Vaccinations of long-term care residents and workforce will begin on December 28th through a partnership with the CDC, CVS and Walgreens.
In October the CDC announced it was partnering with CVS, Walgreens, and Managed Health Care Associates, Inc. to offer on-site COVID-19 vaccination services for residents of nursing homes and assisted living facilities.
Non-hospital healthcare workers in the 1A category will also have an opportunity to be vaccinated in the coming weeks at community sites throughout the state. We will be distributing information on those sites and hours of operation next week, and how these individuals in the 1A category can access the sites for appointments. There will also be walk-up availability.
Once the vaccine availability expands, essential workers which fall into category 1B will be able to get vaccinated. The next category after 1B is 1C, and they are adults 65 and over with underlying medical conditions. After these phases are complete, then the general population will be eligible for vaccination. The timing of the progression among the groups depends on the supply of vaccine to our state. We expect that 1A individuals will be vaccinated throughout January and February. As you may know, the information about anticipated doses and shipments of both the Pfizer and Moderna vaccine keeps changing. The previously expected second tranche of Pfizer doses for next week was expected to be 86,775. Now, based on what is entered into the federal Tiberius platform, we see we are expecting only 53,625. That’s a reduction of 38%. The previously anticipated total Pfizer doses in December was expected to be 273,375 based on CDC guidance. Now, based on what has been entered again into the federal Tiberius system, the revised expectation from CDC is 183,300 doses, a change of 33% decrease.
Did murphy himself get vaccinated?
Government = Incompetence
(but they didn’t miss a single paycheck)
What’s going on with the Covid in the fire department, Parks Dept, the traffic department, any word on how they handle procedures.
This is an explicitly racist distribution plan. Rather than inoculate seniors, who are about 90 times more likely to die from Covid than working-age people, the government is pushing prioritizing so-called “essential workers”. Why? Because seniors trend more “white” than younger cohorts, so this is the governments misguided way of giving preference to the non-white population.
Two wrongs don’t make a right.
https://nypost.com/2020/12/20/stop-the-public-health-drive-to-racialize-vaccines/
https://reason.com/2020/12/18/vaccine-cdc-essential-workers-elderly-racial-covid-19/
We do know in Washington t w p , they are doing well.
Surely there are old people of all races!
Come and give it.
White people live the longest in America, for obvious reasons (generally wealthier and this healthier). But regardless, the slides show that targeting certain essential workers and immune-compromised folks ahead of seniors aged 65-74 is expected to avert a higher percentage of death – why wouldn’t we adopt that approach even if it smells like “anti-white” sentiment to you? Hmmm – I have some ideas.
Anyway, was anyone on here disputing the Texas Lt Gov when he said that grandparents should be ok to accept death if it meant helping the US economy (https://www.marketwatch.com/story/texas-lt-gov-dan-patrick-says-grandparents-are-willing-to-die-to-save-economy-for-their-grandkids-2020-03-23)? Well looks like that sacrifice will have to continue.
dont you mean they prefer to test the vaccines on POC because they are more expandable?
Death Panel: The CDC slides cited in the Reason.com link above
https://www.cdc.gov/vaccines/acip/meetings/downloads/slides-2020-11/COVID-04-Dooling.pdf
do not state that immunizing “essential workers’ will avert a higher percentage of death. They claim that even though death and infection rate will be reduced more by inoculating those 65+, “Ethical principals” bend the outcome because “Racial and ethnic minority groups [are] under-represented among adults > 65” (approximately slide 31 — few slides are numbered). Ethical principals, incidentally are defined as promoting justice and mitigating health inequalities (slide 6).
Ethics defined in this way are a cover for racism.
And how does a statement by a politician back in March apply to the current situation except perhaps to show that grandma should be thrown off the cliff and like it?
What? Just immunize the people who have the highest risk before those that have lower risk…regardless of their color or job. Why complicate things with the typical political noise?