No waits. No lines. With demand falling, one N.J. county is closing COVID vaccination sites. - NJ.com

One of Essex County's COVID vaccination sites in late December after it first opened.George McNish | For NJ Advance Media.

The queue for those awaiting a COVID shot at the Essex County vaccination site in Livingston is set up like a line for a popular ride at Walt Disney World.

County officials said two additional locations out of the five they set up to administer vaccines in response to the deadly pandemic — West Caldwell Tech in West Caldwell and the Donald Payne School in Newark — will close as well, at least temporarily, because of low demand for a vaccine that until just a few week ago was all but impossible get without waiting weeks to score an appointment.

The county has already stopped taking appointments for first doses at the three sites.

When everyone who has already made appointments for their second doses has been vaccinated, the sites will close at the end of May.

Two other county vaccine sites in West Orange and Newark will remain open, along with multiple mobile units that are deployed to churches, senior buildings and community center and homeless shelters.

Last week, all six of the state’s coronavirus vaccine mega sites began offering walk-in vaccinations, state officials announced.

Not only were appointments to get vaccinated not needed — one did not need to be a resident of a specific county to get vaccinated at any county’s megasite.

In fact, officials in Essex said the numbers of those scheduling appointments seemingly dropped overnight in the past two weeks, from some 4,000 a day to less than 500, county officials said.

“We know we have to be more strategic to get even more residents vaccinated,” said state Health Commissioner Judith Persichilli at the state’s regular coronavirus briefing in Trenton on Monday.

“As a result, we are pivoting to strategically focused specific populations by using pop ups, hub and spoke models, planning for mobile vans and a trained community corps, which includes hundreds of outreach workers,” said Health Department spokeswoman Dawn Thomas.

“The department partnered with University Hospital on Saturday and had our COVID Community Corps on site to answer questions and provide factual information about vaccines during their vaccination event,” she said.

Essex County on Tuesday joined with the state’s megasites to eliminate appointments to get a vaccine at its vaccination centers at Kmart in West Orange and Essex County College in Newark.