New Jersey Commissioner of
Health Judy Persichilli appeared on “60 Minutes” Sunday night, talking about
her concerns about distributing a vaccine -- whenever that may be.
"My biggest fear is
that we are dealing with a surge in our hospitals, in our emergency rooms when
we are trying to vaccinate and the hospitals will have to spend their time
taking care of people, and that will impact the staffing of vaccine sites
within our hospitals, which we rely on."
Persichilli says the state
could vaccinate between 60,000 and 80,000 people a day, and the state should
get enough shots to vaccinate their target number – roughly 70% of adults in
six months.
Persichilli does say she
fears not enough people will show up to be get the vaccine.