| 18 Jan 2021 | 03:02 West Milford, N.J., resident Coty DeFreese takes a selfie while getting vaccinated on Jan. 7. Since states began expanding eligibility the week of Monday, Jan. 11, area residents have struggled to find available COVID-19 vaccination appointments. Photo provided.
There are not enough COVID-19 doses across the Tri-State area to vaccinate those who are currently eligible. The shortage, combined with a lack of streamlined information regarding where and how to obtain a vaccine appointment, has left residents scrambling.
The level of anxiety surrounding the lack of vaccines hearkens back to spring 2020’s grocery shortages, when residents were rolling up to stores at opening in hopes to find fresh meat, Lysol wipes, or a few rolls of toilet paper.
By TONY CAPACCIO | Bloomberg News | Published: January 19, 2021 WASHINGTON (Tribune News Service) Brandie Santana’s phone rang in the evening after she finished her shift as a hospice nurse at Cavalry Hospital in the Bronx. Television news was still showing images of rioting that day at the U.S. Capitol, some 225 miles away, and she realized what was coming. “I pretty much knew we were going to get the call,” the 40-year-old sergeant with the Army National Guard’s Military Police said in an interview on the plaza outside the Capitol. The building “looked like it was being overrun,” the 20-year veteran of the Guard said.
Kingston Family Health Center: 64 percent;
Cornerstone Family Healthcare: 72 percent;
NewYork-Presbyterian Hudson Valley: 77 percent;
Bon Secours Community Hospital: 86 percent;
HealthAlliance Hospital Broadway Campus: 90 percent;
NYP-Lawrence Hospital: 93 percent.
“The motto here in New York is that ‘life is in the doing,’” Cuomo stated. “We understand the concept, now we just have to get the needle in the arm.”
Hudson Valley hospitals with the highest percentage of employees vaccinated:
Good Samaritan Hospital of Suffern: 87.6 percent;
NewYork-Presbyterian/Hudson Valley Hospital: 86.8 percent;
St. John s Riverside Hospital - Dobbs Ferry Pavilion: 77 percent;
St. Anthony Community Hospital: 74.4 percent;
Bon Secours Community Hospital: 70.6 percent;
Mid-Hudson Valley Division of Westchester Medical Center: 69.9 percent;
Kingston Family Health Center: 64 percent;
Cornerstone Family Healthcare: 72 percent;
NewYork-Presbyterian Hudson Valley: 77 percent;
Bon Secours Community Hospital: 86 percent;
HealthAlliance Hospital Broadway Campus: 90 percent;
NYP-Lawrence Hospital: 93 percent.
“The motto here in New York is that ‘life is in the doing,’” Cuomo stated. “We understand the concept, now we just have to get the needle in the arm.”
Hudson Valley hospitals with the highest percentage of employees vaccinated:
Good Samaritan Hospital of Suffern: 87.6 percent;
NewYork-Presbyterian/Hudson Valley Hospital: 86.8 percent;
St. John s Riverside Hospital - Dobbs Ferry Pavilion: 77 percent;
St. Anthony Community Hospital: 74.4 percent;
Bon Secours Community Hospital: 70.6 percent;
Mid-Hudson Valley Division of Westchester Medical Center: 69.9 percent;
Frustration mounts over limited vaccine availability, difficult registration process
Eligible Orange County residents are scrambling to make an appointment for the COVID-19 vaccine amidst incredibly low supply and a difficult registration process. | 14 Jan 2021 | 05:17
When eligibility for the COVID-19 availability expanded to include Phase 1B, demand abruptly outweighed supply in Orange County and New York State as a whole.
According to the New York State website, seven million New Yorkers are now eligible, but the state only receives 300,000 doses each week from the federal government.
A lack of consistency
Orange County puts in vaccine requests to the state weekly - but does not know how many doses the county will receive week to week.