Hudson County Covid Vaccination Sites: Acme, Other Stores Added

This story was updated at 11:30 a.m. on Friday, March 5.

[UPDATED: See the March 12 version of this story, with new information, using this link.]

HUDSON COUNTY, NJ — With 80,000 doses of the new Johnson and Johnson coronavirus vaccine sent to hospitals around New Jersey this week, people are beginning to see more availability for vaccine appointments statewide. On Friday, four new vaccine locations were added in Hudson County, including two Acme supermarkets and a Stop & Shop (see that list below).

Also, Friday morning after 6 a.m., six CVS stores in New Jersey had appointments available, including — if you're willing to drive —Central and South Jersey locations. The chain maintained that Hoboken will get shots at its locations some point in the future.

"Johnson & Johnson's Janssen COVID-19 vaccine has been authorized for emergency use by the FDA," notes CVS on its appointment page. "Appointments now available in select locations. Check availability in your area below." Click here to see what's available at CVS.

And two communities in Jersey City will get vaccine sites next week (see a story about that here), while Palisades Medical Center is administering more shots to residents of North Hudson towns.

The city of Hoboken also has some locations for seniors and others currently eligible, listed in the beginning of the story linked here.

But how else do you get one in New Jersey? There have been some updates in the past two weeks:

• Teachers and certain other essential workers will become eligible starting March 15. Find out more in this story.
• Some in New Jersey have been helped to find an appointment through social media groups, like New Jersey Covid Vaccine Info on Facebook, which has 67,000 members.
• Last week, Patch reported that young people in North Jersey have started volunteering to use their tech skills to get elderly residents a shot. READ MORE: Teen's New Group Finds Coronavirus Vaccines For Seniors

Besides registering for an appointment on the state's hub for any of the state's six megasites, the state has been updating its list of county sites (see this week's list below).

In addition to those locations, residents can try to find an appointment at their own local pharmacy, hospital, or medical office. Rite Aid's signup list is here.

More information about the vaccines

• Presently, the state's sites are vaccinating people in the 1A and 1B groups, including certain essential workers, seniors over 65, and people 16-65 with chronic medical conditions. Find out if you qualify by clicking this link.
• Messenger RNA (mRNA) vaccines, including the Moderna and Pfizer vaccines, are a new type of vaccine that doesn't include the weakened virus, but teaches human cells to make a protein that triggers the immune response (read more about that here). The Johnson & Johnson vaccine is more traditional (see stories about all three vaccines here and here.) Doctors say that the important metric is that all three are effective in preventing serious illness and death from covid, and that having the majority of the public vaccinated, no matter which vaccine, will lessen the spread.
• As of this week, more than 520,000 Americans have died of the virus. (You can see which states had the highest death toll in the past week on this CDC map.)

Here are the currently listed public vaccine sites in Hudson County, with the ones fully bolded that are new this week. Some of them have their own websites to sign up.

Most of these sites are currently only vaccinating people 18 and up, so double check before heading over.

Acme Pharmacy #1083
Jersey City
Hudson
18 years

mhealthappointments.com/covidappt

Acme Pharmacy #1856
West New York
Hudson
18 years

mhealthappointments.com/covidappt

Alliance Health Center

115 Christopher Columbus Drive
Jersey City
18 years
(201) 451-6300
alliancech.org/

Bayonne Medical Center (Carepoint)
29 East 29th Street Bayonne
18 years
(201) 858-6088

Christ Hospital
176 Palisade Avenue Jersey City
18 years
(201) 795-8200

CVS Pharmacy
Union City
18 years
(800) 746-7287
cvs.com/immunizations/covid-19-vaccine

Hoboken Department of Health

308 Willow Street Hoboken
18 years
(201) 420-2375
hobokennj.gov/vaccine

Hudson Regional Health Commission - USS Juneau Center
110 Hackensack Avenue
Kearny
18 years
https://hudsoncovidvax.org/

Hudson Regional Hospital
55 Meadowlands Parkway Seacuacus
Hudson
18 years
(201) 392-2489
hudsonregionalhospital.com/2021/01/hudson-regional-hospital-begins-covid-19-vaccinations/

Jersey City Health Dept - Bethune Center

140 Martin Luther King Drive, Jersey
Hudson
18 years
(201) 547-5688
jerseycitynj.gov/CityHall/health/covid19vaccines

Jersey City Medical Center
355 Grand Street Jersey City
Hudson
18 years

rwjbh.org/covid19vaccine

Kearny Health Department (new listing)
Kearny
18 years

kearnynj.org/

Metropolitan Family Health Network

935 Garfield Avenue Jersey City
18 years
https://www.metropolitanfhn.com/

North Bergen Health Department
1116 43rd Street
North Bergen
18 years
(201) 392-2084

North Hudson Community Action
714 31st Street
Union City
18 years
(201) 210-0200
nhcac.org

North Hudson Community Action
324 Palisade Avenue
Jersey City
18 years
(201) 210-0200
nhcac.org

North Hudson Community Action
326 Harrison Avenue
Harrison
18 years
(201) 210-0200
nhcac.org

North Hudson Community Action
1116 43rd Street
North Bergen
18 years
(201) 210-0200
nhcac.org

North Hudson Community Action
5301 Broadway West New York
18 years
(201) 210-0200
https://nhcac.org/

Palisades Medical Center
7600 River Road North Bergen
(201) 854-5000

18 years

hackensackmeridianhealth.org/COVID19

Rite Aid Store 00149
1097 Broadway Bayonne

18 years
riteaid.com/pharmacy/covid-qualifier

Rite Aid Store 01661
2859-61 Kennedy Boulevard Jersey City

18 years
riteaid.com/pharmacy/covid-qualifier

Rite Aid Store 04812
981 West Side Avenue Jersey City
18 years

riteaid.com/pharmacy/covid-qualifier

Riverside Medical Group Hudson Hoboken

1111 Hudson Street Hoboken
18 years
https://www.riversidemedgroup.com/

Riverside Medical Group Palisades Jersey City
324 Palisade Avenue Jersey City
18 years
https://www.riversidemedgroup.com/

Riverside Medical Group JFK
2440 JFK Blvd., Jersey City

https://www.riversidemedgroup.com/

Riverside Medical Group Bayonne

432 Broadway, Bayonne
https://www.riversidemedgroup.com/

Riverside Medical Group Hoboken
609 Washington St., Hoboken

riversidemedgroup.com

Riverside Medical Group Secaucus

714 10th Street Secaucus
18 years
https://www.riversidemedgroup.com/

Stop and Shop Pharmacy #0853
Bayonne
18 years

stopandshopsched.rxtouch.com/rbssched/program/covid19/Patient/Advisory

Other information

• The state of New Jersey said Wednesday that it had confirmed 63 new deaths since the day before, bringing the total death toll from the virus statewide to 21,052. While daily deaths are down from the first month of the year, they are still much higher than the lowest rate of two new deaths reported back on Sept. 7.
• On Monday, the state said 1,865 patients statewide were hospitalized with the virus, 387 of those in ICU and 226 of those on ventilators.
• Gov. Phil Murphy reportedly said he'd like to start vaccinating the general public by Memorial Day.
• Here is the link to see the updated list of people eligible in New Jersey.

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Here are statewide coronavirus resources:

• NJ COVID-19 Information Hub: https://covid19.nj.gov/
• General COVID-19 questions: 2-1-1
• NJ COVID-19 hotline: (800) 222-1222

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