BY ALEJANDRA
O’CONNELL-DOMENECH
Mass vaccination centers
will open in Brooklyn and
The Bronx this Sunday, Jan.
10, Mayor Bill de Blasio announced
Both centers, which will be
set up at the Brooklyn Army
Terminal in Sunset Park and
Industrial Park in The Bronx,
will be open 24 hours a day
seven days a week, de Blasio
said, and will take patients by
appointment only.
The sites are the fi rst two out
of fi ve mass vaccination centers
proposed by de Blasio earlier
this week to aid the city’s
goal of administering one million
COVID-19 vaccine doses
by the end of the month. Each
of the fi ve boroughs is slated to
get its own vaccination center
with the city planning on opening
one at East Harlem’s La
Marqueta to serve Manhattanites
pending state approval, de
Offi cials are still fi guring
out where to place a site in
Queens and on Tuesday de Blasio
said possible locations on
Staten Island have been narrowed
down to either the Richmond
Savings Bank Park or at
the Staten Island Ferry Terminal.
Another potential Brooklyn
Site, de Blasio added, is at MCU
Park, the Brooklyn Cyclone
stadium in Coney Island.
In addition, there are three
“vaccination hubs” opening
this weekend at Hillcrest High
School in Queens, South Bronx
High School, and Bushwick
High School with more hubs to
come online the following Saturday
including sites at Marta
Valle High School and the Wadleigh
Secondary School for
The Visual and Performing
Arts in Manhattan.
That same Saturday, hubs
will open at Abraham Lincoln
High School and George
Washington High School in
Brooklyn, Port Richmond High
School, and Staten Island Tech
in Staten Island, Walton High
School and Adlai Stevenson
High School in The Bronx, and
August Martin High School and
Beach Channel High School in
Queens.
Eligible New Yorkers interested
in receiving either FDAapproved
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COVID-19 vaccine
from Pfi zer or Moderna can
register for an appointment
at the vaccination site by fi lling
out a questionnaire on the
city’s website. Under phase 1a
of the state’s vaccination distribution
plan only “high-risk”
health care workers, EMS personnel,
urgent care providers,
and home care workers can receive
the vaccine.
De Blasio again pleaded for
more localities to have more
fl exibility in administering the
vaccine in order to reach the
city’s most vulnerable groups,
especially residents over the
age of 75 which the city still
does not have permission to inoculate.
Here is the full list of eligible
categories according to the
city’s website:
High-risk health care workers
in hospitals and Federally
Qualifi ed Health Centers
(FQHCs), including NYS Offi ce
of Mental Health (OMH) psychiatric
centers
High-risk health care workers
who provide direct in-person
care in outpatient/ambulatory
settings and other staff
in these settings who have direct
contact with patients (such
as reception staff); this group
includes workers in private
or hospital-affi liated medical
practices, specialty medical
practices, public health clinics,
dental practices and diagnostic
and treatment centers; phlebotomists;
dialysis workers; occupational
therapists; physical
therapists; speech therapists;
behavioral health workers; and
student health workers
Emergency medical services
(EMS) personnel
Urgent care providers
Health care workers administering
COVID-19 vaccines
Health care workers in
COVID-19 testing sites
Home care workers and
aides, hospice workers, personal
care aides, and consumer
directed personal care
workers
Two COVID-19 mass vaccination centers
opening this weekend: mayor
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