Union County Coronavirus Vaccination Site List: Updated

This story was updated at 4:30 p.m. on Friday, Feb. 12.

[To see the more recent Feb. 19 update, click here.]

UNION COUNTY, NJ — New Jersey has been steadily expanding the number of publicly listed COVID-19 vaccination sites. 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 public sites in each county (see the Union County site list below).

Besides the locations on that list, residents can try to find an appointment at their own local pharmacy, hospital, medical office, and in some cases, their community's own vaccination site.

For instance, this past week, the CVS and Rite Aid pharmacy chains announced that some of their locations would have vaccines:

• The state has added certain Rite Aid pharmacies to the lists in each county. Rite Aid's signup link is here.
• CVS updated its New Jersey stores that had appointments available on both Thursday and Friday morning after 6 a.m., including two in Union County. Read our story from Thursday, with links to the CVS site, here.

Also, last week, Atlantic Health opened a vaccination site in Summit (more details are here: New Coronavirus Vaccination Center To Open In Summit).

Information

New Jersey Health Commissioner Judith Persichilli said the state plans to increase the number of vaccination sites beyond 300. State officials have said the goal is to vaccinate 70 percent of the adult population by the spring.

New Jersey has created a county-by-county vaccine hub that reports the number of immunizations across the state.

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.

The state added a qualifier recently: "Vaccination phases are tentative and subject to change. The movement between vaccination eligibility phases may be fluid. One phase may overlap with another. Not all individuals in each phase will be vaccinated before opening to additional groups, and not all groups within a specific phase will be made eligible to receive the vaccine at the same time."

Public vaccination sites in Union County

Here are the state's currently listed public vaccine sites in Union County. Several of these sites have their own websites to sign up. And as noted, your local pharmacies, medical offices, and other sites may have their own websites.

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

City of Elizabeth Health Department

418 Palmer St.

Elizabeth NJ, 07202
(908) 820-4250
Pre-register at https://covidvaccine.nj.gov/

Union County Department of Health (Note: This site has been removed from the state list for now)
400 North Avenue East, Westfield
(908) 518-5620
ucnj.org

Neighborhood Health Services - Plainfield
1700 Myrtle Avenue Plainfield
(908) 540-0229
nhscnj.org

Rahway Health Department
1 City Hall Plaza Rahway
(732) 827-2000
cityofrahway.org

Riverside Medical Group Urgent Care Center Springfield
200 US Highway 22 Springfield
(973) 376-4341
riversidemedgroup.com

Robert Wood Johnson - Rahway
865 Stone Street Rahway
(732) 381-4200
rwjbh.org/covid19vaccine

ShopRite Pharmacy #163
76 Central Ave.
Clark, NJ 07066
vaccines.shoprite.com

ShopRite Pharmacy Of Elizabeth
865 West Grand St
Elizabeth, NJ 07202
vaccines.shoprite.com

Union County - Kean University
1000 Morris Avenue Union, NJ 07083
ucnj.org/covid19/covid-19-vaccination/

Other information

• As of Friday, more than 479,000 Americans had died of coronavirus. (You can see which states had the highest death toll in the past week on this CDC map.)
• Messenger RNA (mRNA) vaccines, including the Moderna vaccine, 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).
• 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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