Last Wednesday, links popped up locally and around the state that allowed people to fill out a form on the New York State Health Department website, prompting hundreds of innocent people to schedule their vaccine at locations including
the Utica Auditorium Annex in Utica. That registration was deemed invalid due to unapproved links sending people to unapproved vaccination sites. The premature links also affected people in Binghamton, Buffalo, Plattsburgh, Potsdam, and Stony Brook. Later in the day, word began to spread that the appointments that initially caused such celebration, were actually cancelled by the state because the sign-up link shouldn t have been made public.
They finally scored Covid vaccine appointments. Then NY state said ‘oops’
Updated Jan 15, 2021;
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Syracuse, N.Y. – On Wednesday afternoon, dozens of residents of the Vineyards of Miller Place retirement community scored the equivalent of gold: Appointments for Covid-19 vaccines at nearby Stony Brook University.
Using a link provided by the town of Port Jefferson, resident Sharon Tiskowitz said, at least 50 people in the complex signed up to get vaccinated, taking one huge step toward resuming normal life. They quickly got emails confirming their appointments, each complete with a bar code and appointment time, under the letterhead of the New York state Department of Health.
This cluster is unrelated to the previous cluster of cases in Saratoga Springs confirmed last week.
In light of this, New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio has called for flight restrictions to prevent more cases of that contagious strain from arriving here from the UK and other places.
The Jones Beach mega-site opens Thursday morning with a news conference, but the Nassau County executive was not expected to attend.
Laura Curran is quarantining at home after possible exposure to COVID-19. She is reportedly feeling well.
So far a little more than 700,000 people have received the vaccine statewide.
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ALBANY – About 10 million New York residents are now eligible for the COVID-19 vaccine, including many essential workers, those over the age of 65 and those with underlying health conditions like cancer, obesity and high blood pressure.
Whether the newly eligible recipients can successfully score a coveted appointment is another story.
New York is receiving a few hundred thousands doses of the Pfizer/BioNTech and Moderna vaccines each week, meaning demand far outpaces the supply and most vaccination sites are booked solid.