Snow can’t stop NJ hospitals from administering COVID-19 vaccines

Gov. Phil Murphy said the hospitals expecting to receive their first deliveries of vaccine would still receive them

Joanna Gagis, Senior Correspondent | December 17, 2020 | Coronavirus in NJ, Health Care

Gov. Phil Murphy said the winter storm that hit New Jersey Wednesday night disrupted “some amount of the delivery” of the COVID-19 vaccine in the state, but minimally so. He said Thursday morning that the 47 hospitals expecting to receive their first delivery of the Pfizer-BioNTech’s COVID-19 vaccine would still receive it.

The vaccine arrived almost two hours earlier than expected at Holy Name Medical Center in Teaneck, a welcome sight for a medical team that was at the epicenter of the coronavirus pandemic during the early spring months. Correspondent Joanna Gagis reports.