Dan Regenye

So far, there have been about 177,000 Ocean County residents vaccinated.

The Ocean County Health Department and local government officials are trying to process the news that the State, who provided them with 3,400 doses of the Moderna vaccine recently, informed OC officials on Friday that they are taking back 400 of those doses.

Well, with an unknown amount of snow along with a wintry mix and some gusty winds barreling to the Jersey Shore Thursday, cancellations, postponements and rescheduling are almost unavoidable.

The nastiness of the winter weather in the month of February alone has made things treacherous on the roads and altered plans across the board.

If you've been hoping for an easier way to ask health related questions, search for answers and get vaccine updates in Ocean County, that easier way has just arrived.

As the Ocean County Health Department receives an abundance of calls, they've added two more phone lines you can try calling if the first one doesn't work or is too busy.

You should be receiving an email from the Ocean County Health Department any day now requesting that you schedule an appointment to receive your 2nd vaccination of the Modera vaccine, which is what the OCHD is administering at their clinics.

There aren't just dozens and hundreds of people but thousands and thousands in Ocean County alone waiting to appointments to start opening up so they can go and get vaccinated especially since Governor Murphy made an announcement moving the state from Phase 1A to Phase 1B and including more qualifications.

More than 100,000 people have tried to make vaccination appointments on the Ocean County Health Department website this week.

Ocean County Health Officials have vaccinated more than 1,000 health care works in week two of Phase 1A and are now adding in more hours and days to continue that trend.

A week and a half after announcing they are increasing testing days, comes word from the Ocean County Health Department that they are now also increasing the hours per day.

Due to the rise in Covid-19 cases in Ocean County, the health department will be going back to offering tests five-days a week at the Ocean County College drive-thru testing site for the first time in months.