Atlantic City NJ Vaccine Megasite May Reopen for COVID-19 Booster

Time to roll up your sleeves one more time as U.S. health experts and medical experts have announced a COVID 19 Booster shot will be available for adults this September.

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The date of your second shot will determine when you would be eligible for the booster vaccine. Originally the timeline was 8 months after your second dose but that window may be moving up.

According to Gov. Murphy and 7 ABC, the CDC could approve a 6-month window thanks to the recent surge of COVID cases due to the Delta variant. More than 2.4 million New Jersey residents would become eligible for the booster shot immediately if the 6-month guideline is approved.

Gov. Murphy tells 7 ABC,

"As these folks return to the queue in a few weeks, we do expect to see an increase in vaccine demand. to be clear, we are confident we have the supply and the distribution capacity to serve everyone," Murphy said. "While we have tremendous capacity at our distribution sites now, we have about 1,500 of them, we have to increase it further in anticipation of the booster and the demand that goes with it."

The six mega-sites in the Garden State included the Atlantic County Mega Site at the Convention Center in AC, Rowan College of South Jersey in Deptford Township, and the Moorestown Mall in Burlington County.

The Atlantic City Convention center gave out more than 272,000 doses from the end of January through mid-June.

I was one of the lucky and fortunate ones to get my second shot on St. Patty's Day. Lucky me! My vaccination experience went even smoother the second time around. I was in and out of the Convention center in less than 30 minutes.

I can't say enough again about the New Jersey National Guardsmen and women, the staff of AtlantiCare, and the Atlantic City Convention Center. Everything went so smoothly and was so well organized.