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West Harlem residents were promised an equitable vaccination plan. There are no vaccination sites in their neighborhood
West Harlem residents were promised an equitable vaccination plan. There are no vaccination sites in their neighborhood Olivia Treynor / Senior Staff Photographer West Harlem residents have no access to vaccination sites within Community Board 9 despite Mayor De Blasio’s promise of vaccine equity.
In December, New York City mayor Bill de Blasio pledged to prioritize neighborhoods that had historically suffered from racial inequity, such as West Harlem, in the city’s COVID-19 vaccine distribution plan. Just over one month later, with the vaccine rollout underway, residents claim that the city has not made good on that pledge, as Manhattan Community Board 9 still does not have a single vaccination site.
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The deputy commissioner for public health at the New York state Health Department resigned in late summer. Soon after, the director of its bureau of communicable disease control also stepped down. So did the medical director for epidemiology. Last month, the state epidemiologist said she, too, would be leaving.
The drumbeat of high-level departures in the middle of the pandemic came as morale plunged in the Health Department and senior health officials expressed alarm to one another over being sidelined and treated disrespectfully, according to five people with direct experience inside the department.