In just a few minutes all new COVID vaccine appointments were full. Dutchess County County Executive Marc Molinaro understands the outage and explains why.
PUBLISHED 6:12 PM ET Jan. 05, 2021 PUBLISHED 6:12 PM EST Jan. 05, 2021
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As the rollout of the COVID-19 vaccine has lagged over the last three weeks, local government officials are pushing to take a bigger role in distributing it.
They point to their experience in administering annual flu shots and the plans they have in place for the last 20 years to distribute vaccines.
But those plans have been shelved in favor of the state s approach, with Gov. Andrew Cuomo s office preferring a more centralized plan in order to avoid a mishmash of distribution across the state.
Still, county officials argue that s what is happening now.
Old JC Penney serves as vaccination hub for Dutchess County residents
News 12 Staff
Updated on:Jan 26, 2021, 8:40am EST
The large open layout of Poughkeepsie s old JC Penney is being
utilized by Dutchess County to administer vaccines.
The former department store occupies space in the town’s Galleria Mall.
Dutchess County Executive Marc Molinaro says he hopes to get more than the 600
doses the state allowed this week. “This is the kind of location that will get
shots into the arms of people who want them, he says.
The county executive
also tells News 12 he hopes to have more large vaccine centers like JC Penney throughout the county.
UAlbany COVID-19 Vaccine Site Opens UPDATED 6:50 PM ET Jan. 15, 2021 PUBLISHED 8:29 AM ET Jan. 15, 2021 PUBLISHED 8:29 AM EST Jan. 15, 2021
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Cars started to line up outside the white tents that lined the Northwest Gold Lot at SUNY Albany on Friday, a half hour before the state-run COVID-19 vaccine site officially opened.
SUNY Albany has now become almost a hub for COVID-19 related services, with a state run testing site on one side and now a vaccination site on the other.
People are starting to line up at SUNY Albany to receive the COVID-19 vaccine. The first dose is expected to be administered at 8 AM. This is the 5th state operated COVID-19 vaccine site to open up and the 2nd one to open up outside NYC and Westchester pic.twitter.com/LwhbYGvUBn
The Dutchess County executive has signed an executive order capping third-party food delivery fees.
Dutchess County Executive Marc Molinaro says the order supports local restaurants by temporarily capping service fees charged by third-party food delivery companies to no more than 15 percent of the cost of the food order. Third-party food delivery companies, such as Grubhub and Door Dash, have apps for ordering food online. And while these apps are vital for restaurants during the COVID-19 pandemic, Molinaro says the fee structures, which can run as high as 30 percent for delivery orders, are cutting into local restaurants’ profits. His order also prohibits third-party delivery services from publishing restaurants’ menus on the services’ apps and increasing the price of a food item to include a delivery fee. Molinaro, a Republican, thanks Democratic County Legislator Nick Page for bringing the issue to his attention.