Hudson County Vaccine Appointments To Open Up Tuesday Evening

HUDSON COUNTY, NJ — The county of Hudson sent out a release on Tuesday afternoon saying that vaccine appointments would be opening up starting at 6 p.m. at the county's main vaccination site in Kearny.

"Hudson County will be opening its vaccine scheduling system at 6 p.m. on Tuesday for appointments at the USS Juneau Center on Thursday and Friday of this week, with a handful of slots currently available for Wednesday," said a release. "More than 4,000 vaccines will be administered at the county-run site through the end of this week."

Eligible residents can visit hudsoncovidvax.org to begin the registration process.

"This week, Hudson County received its largest allocations of vaccine to date with over 20,000 doses being directed to the county and its municipal partners by state and federal officials," said the release.

In New Jersey, anyone over the age of 16 will become eligible beginning April 19.

For now, a full eligibility list can be found here.

All the places to get vaccinated in Hudson County

See our updated Patch list of where else to get vaccinated in Hudson County, and volunteers who can help, here.

The Hudson County Vaccine Distribution Center is operated by Hudson Regional Health Commission and overseen by County Executive Tom DeGise’s Vaccine Task Force, which includes representatives from the Hudson County Improvement Authority, the Hudson County Office of Emergency Management, County Department of Roads and Public Property, the Hudson County Schools of Technology and the Hudson County Sheriff’s Office. The center is located at the USS Juneau Center at 110 Hackensack in Kearny.

Several new groups of New Jersey residents became eligible for the coronavirus vaccine this week, including people 55 and over.

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, 550,000 Americans had died of the virus. (See how your county is doing with this CDC link.)

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