COURIER L 26 IFE, JUNE 11-17, 2021
7 of 25 lowest
vaxed zip codes
statewide in BK
An emergency worker receives the COVID-19 vaccine.
REUTERS/Carlo Allegri
BY BEN BRACHFELD
Brooklyn neighborhoods
account for seven
of the 25 ZIP codes statewide
with the lowest
rates of vaccination,
state data unveiled Monday
shows.
From lowest to highest,
those ZIP codes include:
• 11211 (Williamsburg):
31.5 percent
• 11233 (Ocean Hill and
parts of Bed-Stuy and
Crown Heights): 31.8
percent
• 11236 (Canarsie): 32.4
percent
• 11212 (Brownsville):
33.4 percent
• 11213 (Crown Heights):
33.7 percent
• 11219 (Borough Park):
33.8 percent
• 11210 (Midwood): 34.2
percent
“To the county health
departments and local
governments, I say, focus
your resources there,”
Gov. Andrew Cuomo said
at a press briefi ng Monday.
“That is where we
have the greatest chance
for advancement.”
The governor said
that he would “feel comfortable”
lifting all remaining
pandemic restrictions,
including
capacity restrictions,
mask requirements, and
social distancing protocols,
once 70 percent of
New Yorkers have gotten
vaccinated; the rate currently
sits at 68.6 percent.
As New York City
saw its fi rst day with no
COVID-19 related deaths
last week, Mayor Bill de
Blasio hailed the milestone
and urged citydwellers
tp continue to
get vaccinated.
“I really want to emphasize
this, you know,
as of today, here’s the
number of vaccine doses.
It’s astounding. 8,408,000
doses of vaccine given in
New York City. And that
is New Yorkers making a
decision to protect themselves,
their family, their
city,” Hizzoner said.
“That’s also a lot of great
people, health care workers,
outreach workers,
you know, hospital workers
who have been there
to vaccinate people when
they’re ready. And what
this means is because
people made this decision,
we are consistently
squeezing COVID out of
the city, and we’re also
seeing tremendous drops
in the number of hospitalizations.
And thank
God that means we are
losing fewer and fewer
people all the time. And
that is what we’ve been
waiting for, that we could
get to this moment we
can actually see COVID
being behind us.”
City data shows that
vaccinations in the city
peaked back on April 8,
when 116,510 were administered.
That was two days
after the state opened up
vaccine eligibility to all
adults over 16.
The daily number
of doses administered
in the city has been on
the decline ever since:
on Sunday, June 6, only
9,182 jabs were given.
Sundays often have
lower vaccination numbers;
Saturday’s number
was 28,141.
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