Citi Field to become 24/7 COVID-19 vaccination site
BY ANGÉLICA ACEVEDO
Mayor Bill de Blasio announced
Citi Field will become
a 24/7 mega COVID-19
vaccination site during his
daily press conference on
Tuesday, Jan. 12.
The site will be run inside
the stadium, located at 41
Seaver Way, by NYC Health
+ Hospitals, and will have a
capacity to administer 5,000
to 7,000 vaccines a day. It will
open in the week of Jan. 25, according
to the mayor.
“This is going to be fantastic.
This is going to help so
many people get vaccinated,”
de Blasio said, praising the
Mets for stepping up and helping
the people of Queens and
New York City as a whole. “We
welcome Queens residents. We
welcome all New Yorkers. We
even welcome Yankees fans.
There is no discrimination.”
De Blasio said there is still
work to do, but it will be a
“game-changer.”
New Mets owner Steve Cohen
joined de Blasio for Tuesday’s
announcement.
“When we heard about
your initiative, we were just
so excited to participate in
this program,” Cohen said.
“It’s so important. We know
the suffering that’s going on
with COVID. Anyway the organization
could help support
this effort, we were going to
do it. We talked about being
involved in our communities
and I can’t think of any way
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that’s more important than
what this hub is going to do.
Cohen described Citi
Field as the “intersection of
Queens,” that can be reached
by subways, trains and highways.
“The goal is to just get the
vaccine in people’s arms so
we can get this crisis over
with and get back to living a
normal life,” Cohen added.
Health + Hospitals opened
its first vaccine hub in Queens
at Hillcrest High School on
Sunday, Jan. 10, with another
on the way in Corona later in
the week.
There will be three more
vaccine hubs opening in
Queens on Jan. 15, located at
August Martin High School
at 156-10 Baisley Blvd., in Jamaica;
Beach Channel Educational
Campus at 100-00 Beach
Channel Drive in Rockaway;
and Aviation High School at
45-30 36th St. in Long Island
City.
There are more than two
dozen sites in Queens currently
administering the vaccine.
The Health Department
has established the NYC
COVID-19 Vaccine Finder
for New Yorkers to search
for nearby locations that are
currently administering the
COVID-19 vaccine and to set
up an appointment online.
The vaccine is currently
being provided to New Yorkers
who are 75 and older,
teachers and education workers,
first responders, public
safety workers, public transit
workers, healthcare providers
and staff with direct
patient contact, emergency
responders, staff at COVID-
19 testing and vaccination
locations, home health aides,
and long-term care staff and
residents.
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