“The number of people who have been skittish about the vaccine has dropped as more Americans line up for the shot, but the hardcore group who want to avoid it at all costs has barely budged,” Patrick Murray, director of the independent Monmouth University Polling Institute, said in a prepared statement.

Members of the organization's Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices stressed during an emergency meeting that they did not have enough information to issue a firm decision on how public health officials should employ the dose.

None of the mega-sites have been affected, nor was Hackensack Meridian Health in Bergen County, according to Health Commissioner Judith Persichilli. "The large sites are keeping the appointments and filling them with Moderna or Pfizer," she said.

“With the growing primary care needs of our community, health equity lessons learned from the COVID-19 pandemic, a budding, post-pandemic mental health crisis, and the community’s demand for more comprehensive and specialized care, our current facilities are bursting at the seams,” according to the facility's president and CEO, Shereef Elnahal.

The molecular pathology laboratory will move operations to Edison's Federal Business Center where it will feature six new laboratory spaces and an innovation room in which staff pathologists will refine and develop products.

The facility will provide patients with evidence-based medical treatment for substance use disorder, group and individual behavioral therapy, group medical appointments, financial navigation, and community resource navigation.

MouthWatch LLC aims to support for-profit or nonprofit programs at any stage of development with its TeleDent Mobile Dentistry Accelerator Awards.

State health officials were expecting the Johnson & Johnson inoculation to make up 1 million of the 8.5 million doses expected by the end of June.

“[COVID-19] vaccine safety is a top priority for the federal government, and we take all reports of health problems following COVID-19 vaccination very seriously,” reads an April 13 morning tweet from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration.

The organization will invest in United Way of Greater Newark’s public education campaign to improve confidence in the vaccine among Black, Indigenous and people of color (BIPOC), women, the homeless, youth aging out of foster care, undocumented residents and other communities.

April 12's figures are the lowest they have been in five weeks. The seven-day average was 3,173 cases, down 18% from last week but still 8% up from last month.

The antibody diagnostic uses the Abbott platform to help physicians recognize vaccine generated immunity versus autoimmunity from prior infection in patients.