Governor Murphy tweeted that ‘New Jersey could receive its first shipment of vaccines in late December. It’s expected that @pfizer will be applying to the  @US_FDA for an emergency use authorization for their new vaccine – if approved, we’d expect our first shipment of 130,000 doses to arrive around Christmas’

At his briefing this afternoon, Murphy said ‘we can begin to anticipate the arrival of a vaccine’ while urging residents to continue to get tested for the virus.

NJDOH Commissioner Persichilli said the state could have as many as 460,000 vaccine doses by early January, and that the state’s goal is to vaccinate 4.7M residents.