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New COVID Vaccine Data Shows Which Parts Of NYC Are Being Left Behind arrow People wait in line to enter a coronavirus (COVID-19) vaccination site at Citi Field in New York on February 10th, 2021. Erik Pendzich/Shutterstock Sections of Queens, Hunts Point in the Bronx, and East New York and Brownsville in Brooklyn had among the lowest percent of residents who have received at least one dose of a COVID-19 vaccine, according to new data the city Health Department released ...

The other evening, Dr. Torian Easterling, the first deputy commissioner of the city’s Department of Health and its chief equity officer, took questions at a “Covid-19 101” conversation broadcast in Spanish and English on Bronxnet TV. It was one of a citywide series of information and education sessions in communities hit hard by the pandemic. The very first question was about the vaccine.

The first wave of the COVID-19 pandemic devastated Black, Latino, and immigrant communities across New York City at disproportionate levels last spring and since. Some lawmakers are now asking why the same populations were not included in vaccine priority plans crafted by the state and city. At a January 12 City Council oversight hearing on the de Blasio administrations roll-out of the first batches of the covid vaccine, members of the Council’s committees on hospitals and health asked the ci...

City adamant in ‘equitable’ rollout of vaccines Updated Jan 31, 2021; Posted Jan 31, 2021 Lines form for COVID-19 testing at the NYC Health + Hospitals Gotham clinic located in Clifton which is also giving COVID-19 vaccines by appointment only. Jan. 11, 2020. (Staten Island Advance/ Alexandra Salmieri) Facebook Share STATEN ISLAND, N.Y.— City officials are stressing there needs to be an “equitable” rollout of coronavirus (COVID-19) vaccines for all New Yorkers -- in part to counter ...

SHARE: A certain amount of faith is required when venturing into the unknown. This is especially true when it comes to new medical advancements.  Luckily, Sandra Lindsay, an intensive care nurse at the Long Island Jewish Medical Center in Queens, had faith in science on Dec. 14, the day she became the first person to be vaccinated against COVID-19 in the U.S. (She received her second and final vaccine dose a little over three weeks later.) “It is rooted in science, I trust science, and the a...

NY Scrambles To Ensure COVID Vaccine Rollout Doesnt Leave Behind Black And Brown Communities arrow A nurse gets the COVID-19 vaccine at Northwell Healths Long Island Jewish Valley Stream hospital on December 21st. EDUARDO MUNOZ/POOL/EPA-EFE/Shutterstock City data shows Hispanic/Latino and Black people died at about twice the rate of white people. Though Asians and Pacific-Islanders appeared to have the lowest death rates, a study disaggregating data about Asian American ...

NY Gives OK to Pfizer Vaccine Ahead of Final FDA Approval; NYC Opens Command Center on Monday © Bloomberg via Getty Images A health worker injects a person during clinical trials for a Covid-19 vaccine at Research Centers of America in Hollywood, Florida, U.S., on Wednesday, Sept. 9, 2020. Drugmakers racing to produce Covid-19 vaccines pledged to avoid shortcuts on science as they face pressure to rush a shot to market. Photographer: Eva Marie Uzcategui/Bloomberg via Getty Images What to Know...

Replies(3) Mayor Bill de Blasio detailed the city’s coronavirus vaccination effort which likely will start next week. (NYC Mayors Office) NEW YORK CITY — A massive effort will mobilize as soon as the coronavirus vaccine arrives in New York City and distribute the life-saving shots quickly and equitably, Mayor Bill de Blasio promised. De Blasio on Friday detailed the citys plans for the vaccination drive, which will begin as soon as the federal government approves a Pfizer-developed vaccine...