Union County Coronavirus Vaccination Site List: New Locations

This story was updated at 3 p.m. on Friday, Feb. 19.

UNION COUNTY, NJ — New Jersey has been steadily expanding its public lists of COVID-19 vaccination sites. Besides registering for an appointment on the state's hub for any of the state's six megasites, the state also has been updating its list of various sites in each county (see the updated Union County list below).

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In addition to those locations, residents can try to find an appointment at their own local pharmacy, hospital, medical office, and in some cases, their community's own vaccination site. Some of those sites are also on the state list below, while others have their own websites.

For instance, two weeks ago, the CVS and Rite Aid pharmacy chains announced that some of their locations would have vaccines:

• The state has added certain Rite Aid pharmacies to the lists in each county. Rite Aid's signup list is here.
• CVS updated its New Jersey stores that had appointments last week, but has not had new appointments available since. Read our story from last week, with links to the CVS site, here.

And earlier this month, Atlantic Health opened a vaccination site in Summit (more details are here: New Coronavirus Vaccination Center To Open In Summit).

More information

New Jersey Health Commissioner Judith Persichilli said the state plans to increase the number of vaccination sites beyond 300. State officials have said the goal is to vaccinate 70 percent of the adult population by the spring.

New Jersey has created a county-by-county vaccine hub that reports the number of immunizations across the state.

Presently, the state's sites are vaccinating people in the 1A and 1B groups, including certain essential workers, seniors over 65, and people 16-65 with chronic medical conditions. Find out if you qualify by clicking this link.

The state added a qualifier recently: "Vaccination phases are tentative and subject to change. The movement between vaccination eligibility phases may be fluid. One phase may overlap with another. Not all individuals in each phase will be vaccinated before opening to additional groups, and not all groups within a specific phase will be made eligible to receive the vaccine at the same time."

As of Friday, more than 479,000 Americans had died of the virus. (You can see which states had the highest death toll in the past week on this CDC map.)

Public vaccination sites in Union County (four are new)

Here are the state's currently listed public vaccine sites in Union County. Not all of them have vaccinations available right now, but check their websites at various times. Four are new this week: The two CVS sites, Overlook, and Trinitas.

Most of these sites are currently only vaccinating people 18 and up, so double check before heading over.

CVS Pharmacy
Elizabeth
18 years
(800) 746-7287
cvs.com/immunizations/covid-19-vaccine

CVS Pharmacy
Union
(800) 746-7287
cvs.com/immunizations/covid-19-vaccine

City of Elizabeth Health Department

418 Palmer St.

Elizabeth NJ, 07202
(908) 820-4250
Pre-register at https://covidvaccine.nj.gov/

Neighborhood Health Services - Plainfield

1700 Myrtle Avenue Plainfield
(908) 540-0229
nhscnj.org

Overlook Medical Center
99 Beauvoir Summit
Union
18 years

atlantichealth.org/

Rahway Health Department

1 City Hall Plaza Rahway
(732) 827-2000
cityofrahway.org

Riverside Medical Group Urgent Care Center Springfield
200 US Highway 22 Springfield
(973) 376-4341
riversidemedgroup.com

Robert Wood Johnson - Rahway
865 Stone Street Rahway
(732) 381-4200
rwjbh.org/covid19vaccine

ShopRite Pharmacy #163
76 Central Ave.
Clark, NJ 07066
vaccines.shoprite.com

ShopRite Pharmacy Of Elizabeth
865 West Grand St
Elizabeth, NJ 07202
vaccines.shoprite.com

Trinitas Regional Medical Center
Thomas Dunn Sports Center 600 Pearl Street
Elizabeth
Union
18 years
(908) 994-8166

Union County - Kean University

1000 Morris Avenue Union, NJ 07083
ucnj.org/covid19/covid-19-vaccination/

Union County Department of Health (Note: This site has actually been removed from the state list for the time being)

400 North Avenue East,

Westfield(908) 518-5620

ucnj.org

Other information

• Messenger RNA (mRNA) vaccines, including the Moderna vaccine, are a new type of vaccine that doesn't include the weakened virus, but teaches human cells to make a protein that triggers the immune response (read more about that here).
• Gov. Phil Murphy reportedly said he'd like to start vaccinating the general public by Memorial Day.
• Here is the link to see the updated list of people eligible in New Jersey.

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Here are statewide coronavirus resources:

• NJ COVID-19 Information Hub: https://covid19.nj.gov/
• General COVID-19 questions: 2-1-1
• NJ COVID-19 hotline: (800) 222-1222

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