New York State has 636 sites up and and administering the Covid-19 virus, Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo said Tuesday.
He also said he wants essential worker groups, such as fire and police departments, educators and public transit organizations to begin making plans to vaccinate their workers.
Huntington school superintendent James W. Polansky said, “As schools, we never thought we would be testing on site, but we are. With guidance from the state and county, it would only make sense for schools to assist in the vaccination roll-out with respect to providing accessible locations.”
The plan is to take some of the work off of hospitals and other vaccination locations, Cuomo said, as more people become eligible to receive the vaccine.
By the end of the week, Cuomo said, the state will have distributed about 911,000 first doses of the vaccine.
Around the state, 3,762 providers have applied and been approved by the state to serve as vaccination sites.They are:
Site Type |
Number Enrolled to Administer Vaccine |
Medical Practice |
1,285 |
Pharmacy – Chain |
802 |
Long-Term Care /Congregate Living Facility |
510 |
Federally Qualified Health Center |
325 |
Hospital/Hospital Sites |
250 |
Urgent Care |
238 |
Community/Rural/Public Health Center & Clinic |
176 |
Other |
176 |
By location:
Region |
Number of Sites Enrolled to Administer Vaccine |
New York City |
845 |
Long Island |
713 |
Mid-Hudson |
549 |
Capital Region |
343 |
North Country |
150 |
Mohawk Valley |
147 |
Southern Tier |
145 |
Central New York |
222 |
Finger Lakes |
297 |
Western New York |
351 |
The governor also insisted that the federal government do more to test all travelers arriving from outside the United States to stop further transmission of the Covid-19 variant that has been identified in 33 countries.
Why if there were 250 doses did only 35 people get the vaccine? I tried to register for me and my husband, both in our 80’s and were told the vaccine was all accounted for, I don’t understand it.