As northjersey.com notes:
The Murphy administration defended itself Monday and seemed to shift some blame to the federal government after missing a deadline to start vaccinating staff and residents of nursing homes this week against COVID-19. Democratic Gov. Phil Murphy dismissed a top Republican's call for Health Commissioner Judith Persichilli to resign over the delay, saying "the last thing we need is people who don't know what they're talking about from the cheap seats." Murphy did not say where the responsibility lies for the Department of Health's failure to submit the required paperwork to the federal government in time to begin vaccinating staff and residents in the locations hit hardest by the COVID-19 pandemic. Instead, he urged patience and understanding as his administration rolls out a vaccine that was developed in record time and on a massive scale. "This is not an easy, straight-line process," Murphy said at his regular coronavirus briefing in Trenton. "It is one of the most ambitious federal government initiatives ever undertaken, and folks have to understand that."
Now my grandmother was a nurse, my sister is a nurse, my mother in law was a nurse and a great deal about medicine I learned from my first head nurse, Mrs. Kahn. But the execution of the delivery of the vaccine needs a competent individual and a politically well connected nurse grossly, in my opinion and in my experience, misses the target. This will just get worse as the current Administration in Trenton bumbles about in its inane attempt to deliver vaccine. Prior planning prevents poor performance and it seems clear that a proverbial "Nurse Ratchet" has done none. It is a straight line. All one has to do is execute. A Banker and a Nurse will not get us there. One wonders how many will die as a result of this gross incompetence. As a metric, we still see 10 deaths per day in LTC alone (see above). A week delay is 70 more unnecessary deaths. These are not "cheap seats', they are human lives.
Facts are a real bummer Gov. "Standing room only"
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