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City passes a million vaccine doses
Medgar Evers College
to be mass vax site for
vulnerable communities
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COURIER LIFE, F 4 EBRUARY 12-18, 2021
BY BEN VERDE
Crown Heights’ Medgar
Evers College will soon serve
as a mass vaccination site for
some of the borough’s most vulnerable,
Gov. Andrew Cuomo
announced on Feb 10.
The college on Montgomery
Street between Franklin and
Bedford avenues will have the
capacity to administer 3,000
shots per day, making it among
the largest mass vaccination
sites in the state once it opens
the week of Feb. 24.
Medgar Evers is one of two
new vaccination hubs earmarked
for “socially vulnerable”
communities. The site,
as well as one at York College
in Queens, will utilize a special
federal dosage allocation
for communities that have
been underserved by vaccination
efforts so far, according to
Cuomo, and appointments will
be for borough-residents only.
Early data has shown that
white New Yorkers have benefi
tted far more from the city’s
vaccination effort than people
of color, with Black New Yorkers
only accounting for 11 percent
of those presently vaccinated,
but they represent nearly
a quarter of the population.
The Medgar Evers site
will be managed by both the
city and the state, and will be
partially staffed by the National
Guard.
“These are going to be very
large sites. They’re complicated
operations, but they’re going
to address a dramatic need in
bringing the vaccine to the people
who need the vaccine most,”
Cuomo said.
A healthcare worker gets vaccinated.
BY AIDAN GRAHAM
New York City administered
1,071,393 doses of
the COVID-19 vaccine as
of the morning of Feb. 10,
marking a major milestone
in the efforts to vaccinate
the population of
the Five Boroughs.
Cumulatively, nearly
275,000 individuals have received
both their fi rst and
second doses of the vaccine,
leaving nearly 800,000 partially
inoculated persons
awaiting their second dose.
As another positive
sign, the city has been consistently
ramping up the
pace with which health offi
cials are able to distribute
the vaccine, with weekday
numbers showing about
40,000 people receiving an
injection each day — although
those numbers still
signifi cantly decline on
weekends.
Still, supply of the vaccine
from the federal government
to the city and
state is still presenting a
major bottleneck to distribution,
as the city’s stockpile
continues to remain
below 200,000 doses, with
sporadic replenishments
coming from the feds —
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