[Updated: 6 p.m., Oct. 20, 2021] What’s available? Who’s eligible? How can you get an appointment for a booster?
More than 330,000 New Jerseyans have now received booster doses, or third shots, of a COVID-19 vaccine. State officials want all eligible residents to benefit from the additional protection a booster shot provides against infection, serious illness and death from the disease.
But booster doses are not available to everyone who got immunized against COVID-19. Here are the basics on who is now eligible and how they can get a booster shot:
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Lilo H. Stainton is a staff writer for New Jersey Monitor, where this story was first published. Stainton has covered New Jersey for two decades, much of it with Gannett newspapers and NJ Spotlight News, reporting on public policy, national political conventions and the 9/11 attack on lower Manhattan. She later served as press secretary to Gov. Jon S. Corzine and led a nonprofit coalition's successful advocacy for federal funding in the wake of Superstorm Sandy.
