Dinowitz scathes city for pulling walk-in
senior vax clinic at Bronx HS of Science
BY ALEX MITCHELL
The city has unfairly see-sawed
on a walk-in vaccination site slated
for senior citizens in the west Bronx,
Assemblyman Jeffrey Dinowitz says.
Recently, New York City announced
that those aged 75 and
older would be eligible for walk-in
COVID-19 shots without an appointment
at the Bronx High School of Science
– a plan which has now been
scrapped as the school’s currently
active vaccination hub is shuttering
without a replacement site named,
according to the assemblyman.
“I am outraged and disgusted that
the City could take such a great idea
and ruin it within such a short time
frame…The City needs to step up and
fi x this disaster so that seniors in
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the northwest Bronx can make their
plans to get vaccinated,” Dinowitz
said.
He continued, saying that the
site’s closure was not unexpected as
the city’s department of education is
prepping to reopen its facilities to in
person learning; Dinowitz also said
many of his offi ce’s inquiries regarding
the future of the school’s site went
unanswered by NYC in March after
the Mayor’s offi ce shut down a fellow
hub at Walton High School.
“The most disappointing element
to this ordeal is that we all saw it
coming. The only people who seem
to have been caught off-guard are the
people in charge of making these decisions,”
Dinowitz said.
There is a new site slated to open
at Lehman College under the operation
of SOMOS, though Dinowitz’s offi
ce stated, “details are scant and it is
unclear if that location will offer the
same weekend walk-up vaccination
options.”
The outraged assemblyman
penned a letter to the city last Monday,
harshly criticizing that the zip
codes of 10464 and 10471 do not have a
dedicated mass-vaccination site after
FILE PHOTO: Professor Gottfried Kremsner
injects a vaccination against the coronavirus
disease (COVID-19) from German biotechnology
company CureVac to a volunteer at the
start of a clinical test series at his tropical
institute of the university clinic in Tuebingen,
Germany, June 22, 2020. (REUTERS/Kai
Pfaffenbach/File Photo)
his offi ce suggested locations such
as: Manhattan College, The College
of Mount Saint Vincent, Riverdale Y,
Riverdale Neighborhood House, and
Riverdale Temple.
“We need timely communication,
empathetic policies that refl ect the
demographics we are trying to help,
and basic common sense to be used
when making decisions,” Dinowitz
said.
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