New Hudson County COVID Vaccine Appointments Open Up

HUDSON COUNTY, NJ — Hudson County opened up its vaccine scheduling system at 11 a.m. on Monday for appointments at the USS Juneau Center in Kearny, for any eligible Hudson County resident.

The first wave will include 400 appointment slots for Wednesday, April 14.

The county-run site in Kearny anticipates providing roughly 2,270 first doses and a combined total of approximately 4,400 doses this week. In total, 12,850 doses are being directed to the County and its municipal partners this week by state and federal officials, for various sites.

Eligible Hudson County residents are encouraged to complete the pre-registration process online by visiting hudsoncovidvax.org.

Also see Patch's updated list of where to get a vaccine in Hudson County, including at pharmacies and medical offices in Hoboken, Jersey City, Bayonne, Secaucus, Union City, and more: Hudson County Vaccine Site Updates

Several new groups of New Jersey residents became eligible for the coronavirus vaccine last week and everyone over 16 will be eligible on April 19.

Last week, Hudson County received its largest vaccine allocation to date, the county said. A record 5,266 residents were vaccinated at the county-run site alone with an additional 15,000 at municipal-run clinics.

If you need help from volunteers to get an appointment:

• A local woman has formed a group, Sarah's Vaccine Angels, to help people in underserved areas of North Jersey to find an appointment. They can be reached at sarahsvaccineangels@gmail.com or 201-241-4292. READ MORE HERE.

More information

• Messenger RNA (mRNA) vaccines, including the two-dose 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 one-dose 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.
• Find out if you're eligible now in NJ by clicking this link.
• As of this week, 562,000 Americans had died of the virus. (See how your county is doing with this CDC link.)

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