“Our goal, if I may, is pretty high,” Health Commissioner Judy Persichilli said at an Assembly Budget Committee hearing Monday. “It’s to get 70% of the population between five and six months...".
Gov. Murphy said the state will emphasize equity and prioritize the same populations it did when coronavirus testing was initially scarce as it prepares for the eventual rollout of a vaccine.
The bill also states that "a general philosophical or moral objection to the vaccination shall not be sufficient for an exemption on religious grounds."
FDU finds 46% say schools should reopen with appropriate protective measures, 42% support online learning until a COVID-19 treatment or vaccine is available.
One in 38 students — or a total of about 14,000 — have a religious exemption from vaccinations. That number has grown in five years from just under 9,000.
NJ's second measles outbreak in seven months may prompt the Legislature to tighten up New Jersey’s vaccination rules by eliminating religious exemptions.