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Rockland received 1,300 doses of coronavirus vaccine this week, county health officials announced Wednesday. (Montana Samuels/Patch)
NEW CITY, NY Rockland received 1,300 doses of coronavirus vaccine this week, county health officials announced Wednesday.
They were allocated to essential workers and the elderly 700 for the former and 600 for the latter. Appointments were filled immediately, The Journal News reported.
Local health departments like Rockland are asked to concentrate on getting police, firefighters, teachers and other essential workers vaccinated first.
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However, since the local pharmacy/provider network is still getting ready to vaccinate people age 65 and above, the state sent the county doses of vaccine this week allocated for senior residents.
Rockland County s Department of Health provides eligible residents with COVID-19 vaccine
News 12 Staff
Updated on:Jan 05, 2021, 6:16pm EST
Hundreds of sites are now set up across the state to help more New Yorkers get a COVID-19 vaccine when they re eligible.
One of those sites is Rockland County s Department of Health.
Nurse practitioner Julie Krauchuk was the first person to get a COVID-19 vaccine at the Health Department office. We re all so thrilled to be at this point. That we have something that s going to prevent what s been causing so much distress not only here in Rockland County and New York state but the world, she says.
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New York U.S. Senator Kirsten Gillibrand has announced her first bill for the new session of Congress, and it aims to speed up the country’s lagging vaccine distribution. Meantime, Rockland County received its first shipment of a COVID-19 vaccine Tuesday morning and began administering it to county healthcare workers Tuesday afternoon.
Senator Gillibrand says she is reintroducing her Health Force, Resilience Force, and Jobs to Fight COVID-19 Act.
“This bill would invest billions of dollars into local public health infrastructure and recruit, train and employ hundreds of thousands of Americans to support vaccine communication, distribution and administration efforts in their own communities, with a particular focus on underserved communities,” Gillibrand says.
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A new school district in the area has announced it will close for in-person learning for several weeks due to COVID-19 exposure.
Public schools in the Pearl River District in Rockland County will switch to distance learning beginning Monday, Dec. 14, and lasting until Monday, Jan. 11.
The move came after Rockland County Commissioner of Health, Dr. Patricia Schnabel Ruppert, and her team requested a meeting with Pearl River District Administration to review COVID-19 positivity rates and additional positive cases. Dr. Ruppert and the Department of Health issued a strong recommendation to push back the start of in-person instruction until after our winter recess to help mitigate further spread of the virus, Superintendent of Schools Marco F. Pochintesta said in a letter to the community on Friday, Dec. 11. Weighing the health commissioner s recommendation and the latest data, along with our commitment to the health and safety of the Pear