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Finding footing regarding COVID-19 vaccine
Everything is riding on the
COVID-19 vaccine — the serum
looked upon as the necessity
toward bringing life back to what
used to be called ordinary.
It didn’t take very long aft er the
initial rollout of the vaccine, in December,
before the snags surfaced.
First, too many shots but not enough
people getting them. Then, as the
eligibility criteria widened, there
weren’t enough shots to go around.
The federal government, under
the former president, promised a
lot, but delivered little when it came
toward vaccine distribution. Under
new management, however, things
appear to be making a turn for the
better — if ever so slowly.
More vaccines are coming to New
York, though a far cry to meet the demand
here. The state’s getting 300,000
doses over the next three weeks, and
tens of thousands of them are going
to the new vaccine hub that opened at
Yankee Stadium in the Bronx and Citi
Field in Queens.
Restaurant workers are also able to
get the vaccine now under a change
of priority made after Governor
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We’re getting closer to the end of the crisis by the day, and we must do our part by getting the COVID-19 vaccine
when we are eligible. Photo by Dean Moses
Andrew Cuomo’s faux pas last week,
when he initially dismissed the idea
because there weren’t enough shots
to go around. Now that the additional
shots are coming, Cuomo said, the
restaurant workers can get their
shots.
Work is also underway to address
the startling disparity in who’s getting
the vaccine, as the city reported
earlier this week that not enough
Black and Latino New Yorkers are
getting access to the life-saving shot.
The city and state are opening
additional vaccine hubs in communities
of color, operated by SOMOS
Community Care, the nonprofit
team of physicians, nurses and other
healthcare workers directly serving
the Latino community.
The pieces of the puzzle are coming
together. Now New York really needs
the federal government to deliver the
knockout blow to COVID-19.
That can happen with the emergency
FDA approval of the one-shot
Johnson & Johnson COVID-19 vaccine,
due in mid-February. The Biden
administration should also champion
emergency regulation changes that
allow other American pharmaceutical
companies the ability to produce
the Pfi zer and Moderna vaccines on
their own without infringing upon
their patents.
We’re getting closer to the end of
the crisis by the day, and we must
do our part by getting the COVID-19
vaccine when we are eligible. It’s the
safest, best hope we have of restoring
and rebuilding our city and country.
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