Medical staff is giving out the shots at the Menlo Park Veterans Memorial Home in Edison, which along with two other state-run facilities was the epicenter of a crisis that included the deaths of more than 200 residents.
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The state attorney general's office has convened a grand jury to investigate, and a subpoena sent to the facilities asked for documents covering a range of topics from infection control to staffing.
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Meanwhile, the state's new website allows people to pre-register even if they are not currently eligible to be vaccinated.
Currently, the state is only vaccinating healthcare workers and nursing home residents and staff, classified as 1A.
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New Jersey has administered more than 100,000 doses of COVID-19 vaccines out of about 400,000 received so far, Democratic Gov. Phil Murphy said Monday.
Health Commissioner Judy Persichilli said a lag in reporting -- particularly among psychiatric facilities -- partly explains why there's such a gap, but she also noted that department officials were hearing anecdotally that people didn't want to risk taking the vaccine before the holidays in case there were negative side effects.
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The news came as health care workers in New Jersey who were the first in the state to get the COVID-19 vaccine received their second doses Monday.
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