Nursing home residents in the state of New Jersey will not receive coronavirus vaccines until next week because state officials missed a deadline, Fox News reports.
During a press conference, Health Commissioner Judith Persichilli said the state missed a deadline of Dec. 7 to receive the vaccines on Dec. 21 by one day.
"In order to start on the 21st there was a deadline of the 7th … we missed that date by a day," she said. "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 the deadline was missed because of the “sheer volume of information that had to be inputted” for the more than 600 facilities in the state eligible to receive the vaccines.
New Jersey is already receiving 20% fewer doses of the vaccines through the end of the year than it originally thought. According to Persichilli, New Jersey was promised 492,075 doses of the Pfizer and Moderna vaccines this month, but will only get 392,800.
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