Hudson County Covid Vaccines: New Groups Eligible This Week

This story was updated at 5:30 p.m. on Friday, March 26.

HUDSON COUNTY, NJ — With more people becoming eligible for the coronavirus vaccine in New Jersey as of March 29 and April 5, more people are looking for appointments statewide. Below are numerous links to sites with vaccines, and also to volunteers who will help someone get one.

The state notes, "Beginning March 29, additional essential front line workers will be eligible to book vaccine appointments. Beginning April 5, individuals aged 55 and over, additional essential workers, and individuals with intellectual and developmental disabilities 16 and over, detailed below, will be eligible to book appointments." (More here.)

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 Hudson County sites (see this week's updated list below).

In addition to those county sites and medical offices, chains like CVS, Walgreens Walmart, Sam's Club, Rite Aid, and ShopRite have been offering the shot. In fact, Walgreens said they had shots available in Hoboken this past Friday morning. It's worth checking the sites early in the morning.

• Walgreens: https://www.walgreens.com/topic/promotion/covid-vaccine.jsp
• CVS: https://www.cvs.com/immunizations/covid-19-vaccine
• Rite Aid: https://www.riteaid.com/covid-19

Appointments became available at the Hudson County site in Kearny on Friday evening, the city of Hoboken announced: https://hudsoncovidvax.org/

Hoboken also has local sites to vaccinate its eligible residents, with a new one-stop Hoboken signup site for eligible residents revealed last week: http://www.hobokennj.gov/vaccinesignup

In a story on Hoboken's CERT volunteers, they revealed several phone numbers for seniors and others who need help. More here.

Communities in Jersey City got two vaccine sites at churches in underserved areas last week (see a story about that here), while Palisades Medical Center is administering more shots to residents of North Hudson towns.

If you need help from volunteers to get an appointment:

• A Hoboken woman has formed a group to help people in Hudson County find an appointment. Find out more.
• 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.

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
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

West New York Health Department
5400 Broadway West New York
18 years
(201) 295-5100

Types of vaccines

• 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.
• As of this weekend, more than 443,000 Americans have died of the virus. (You can see which states had the highest death toll in the past week on this CDC map.)

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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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