The April 11 extension is not the 90-day delay hospitals wanted for its workforce
Wednesday extended the deadlines for health care workers and corrections officers to get booster shots for COVID-19, a move that delays a flurry of potential firings among employees who have resisted the mandate.
Corrections officers and others who worker in “high risk congregate care settings” must be fully inoculated by May 11 or within three weeks of becoming eligible for a booster shot., while eliminating an option to submit to weekly testing in lieu of getting vaccinated that had been part of a mandate last year. Deadlines have already passed to receive the two-round dose of Pfizer and Moderna or the single shot of Janssen vaccine.
The mandates have been controversial, especially among corrections officers. The Policemen’s Benevolent Association, the union represents police and corrections officers, William Sullivan, the head of PBA local 105, the state’s largest union of corrections officers, said the extension for booster shots “doesn’t really help or alleviate anything” for his members who haven’t gotten any shots yet.The New Jersey Hospital Association, a lobbying group for hospitals and long-term care facilities,Hospital Association President Cathy Bennett issued a statement thanking the governor for the additional time.
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