Nursing homes in New Jersey, which had been previously battered by coronavirus, will begin receiving vaccines on Dec. 28, not Monday, after state authorities failed to meet a registration deadline.
“In order to start on the 21st there was a deadline of the 7th … we missed that date by a day,” state Health Commissioner Judith Persichilli said at a press conference with Democratic Gov. Phil Murphy, according to the New York Post.
“We asked to start on the 21st and they said, ‘No, you’ll start on the 28th.’ It was as simple as that,” she said.
Governor, State of New Jersey, Hon. Phil Murphy speaks during MTV “VMAs” Press Conference at Prudential Center Plaza on May 06, 2019 in Newark, New Jersey. (Bryan Bedder/Getty Images for MTV)
Persichilli faulted the “sheer volume” of nursing home information that had to be submitted by the Dec. 7 deadline, the Post reported. (RELATED: DOJ Seeks COVID-19 Data From Cuomo, Other Governors, In Review Of Nursing Home Policies)
Nursing home deaths in New Jersey doubled from nearly 3,250 in May to 7,135 in September as COVID-19 cases surged, according to Patch. Menlo Park Veterans’ Memorial Home, a long-term care facility in the state, lost roughly half of its 300-patient population to the disease, a late October Guardian investigation found.
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