Livingston COVID Vaccine Clinic For Essex County Closes – Reverb MSN Music

© Shutterstock One of the first COVID vaccination clinics in Essex County, in Livingston, has closed as cases drop. Still, residents are getting boosted, the county’s numbers from Monday show.

LIVINGSTON, NJ — One of Essex County’s first COVID testing and vaccine clinics, housed at the Sears in Livingston, has closed as of Monday, the Essex County executive said in a social media post.

The clinic had opened in 2020, at a time when tests and then vaccines were in high demand.

Cases and hospitalizations from the virus are down, but it’s still taking lives. According to a daily update from Essex County on Tuesday, there were four new COVID deaths confirmed Tuesday countywide since the day before: Two in East Orange, one in North Caldwell, and one in West Orange.

The county will continue to run two clinics for vaccines and testing: One at Kmart in West Orange, and one in the employee parking deck at 84 West Market St. in Newark. See hours and more information about the vaccines, popup clinics, and related details here.

See the county’s user-friendly graphics about who’s eligible for a vaccine right now, payment, and more here.

Some towns, doctor’s offices, and pharmacies also offer the vaccine and tests.

The county executive also posted a graphic on Facebook of how many COVID vaccines, boosters, and tests the sites have given, including by age group. Among the results, 4,541 kids ages 12-15 in the county have already gotten the Pfizer booster shot.

There are 800,000 residents of Essex County.

COVID Numbers Dropping But Virus Is Still A Threat

As of Tuesday, the county of Essex said there were five new COVID cases confirmed in Livingston alone since the day before. That town has lost 100 residents to COVID since the start of the pandemic, but none reported in the last week.

In New Jersey as of Tuesday, the state’s 71 hospitals said they were treating 1,534 patients

for COVID, 143 of those requiring breathing help from ventilators. Nearly two weeks earlier, on Friday, Feb. 4, the state’s hospitals were treating 2,409 patients who tested positive for COVID, and 294 were on ventilators.

Those numbers were nearly half of what was reported two weeks before that. On Friday, Jan. 21, the state’s 71 hospitals reported that they were treating 4,826 COVID positive patients. At the time, 511 patients were getting breathing help from a ventilator.

For comparison’s sake, back in September 2021, 124 people were on ventilators in New Jersey hospitals.

Children are less likely to get seriously ill with COVID than adults. However, the CDC has called children losing a parent to COVID a “hidden pandemic.” And some parents and children have experienced long COVID, as one North Jersey mom shared last year.

The state of New Jersey is urging parents to talk to their own pediatrician about the right safety measures for their child. The state also said in January, when cases were spiking, that four children had died of the virus in New Jersey since Christmas.

Children under 5 cannot yet get vaccinated for the virus.

In America, more than, 900,000 people have died of COVID since the start of the pandemic. The daily death rate is highest right now in these states.

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