New Jersey Governor Phil Murphy toured Jersey City’s Bethune Center on Wednesday as city officials asked the governor for more access to COVID-19 vaccines. According to health officials, the Bethune Center has the capacity to administer 800 to 1,000 vaccines, but the center is currently vaccinating about 250 people a day.
Despite announcing six vaccination sites in December, Jersey City is only operating one vaccine pod at the moment. That’s due to the fact that Jersey City simply hasn’t received sufficient vaccine doses to distribute.
“Our obstacle is getting vaccines, so I invited the governor here,” said Mayor Steven Fulop. “We wanted him to see that the site is working very well. We wanted him to see first hand with the hope that eventually it leads to more access to the vaccines for Jersey City.”
Jersey City received just 300 vaccine doses four weeks ago, said Fulop. And while the number has increased, Jersey City is still receiving under 1,000 doses per week for the entire city. “We want to have six sites up and running,” said Fulop. “The demand is there, if we just had more doses we’d be able to get a much larger breadth of the city done.”
Thank you @GovMurphy for accepting our invitation to visit our municipal vaccination site in #JerseyCity. With Hudson County’s high Covid rate, the density of population in JC + this site located in a community that has been hard for NJ to penetrate w/vaccines. Our hope is pic.twitter.com/UjhWFKJ6jG
— Steven Fulop (@StevenFulop) February 10, 2021
Please register me and my elderly mother for vaccination
1. Rose Nwarihi 76 years old with diabetics and heart disease
2. Beatrice Nwarihi -Njoku 63 years old with diabetics and heart disease phone
I tried to register but don’t know where to register. I want to get my vaccination in Jersey city, please register me in one of the sites. Thanks
Hi, Jersey City currently has one vaccination site. (Bethune Center at 140 Martin Luther King Drive). The hope is that more will open in the coming weeks. However, I can’t register you (everyone has to register for themselves because they will ask personal information). The number to the Bethune Center is (201) 547-4565. Another option, the Jersey City Medical Center has an online page where you can register for the vaccine. Once you register, you’re put on a waiting list. https://www.rwjbh.org/patients-visitors/what-you-need-to-know-about-covid-19/schedule-a-vaccine/
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