State Expanding Covid-19 Vaccination Sites, Cuomo Says

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.