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New York City on Thursday launched an effort to vaccinate homebound seniors by going door to door at select residential buildings. With this week’s arrival of the Johnson & Johnson vaccine, which requires a single shot and remains stable in a regular refrigerator, Mayor Bill de Blasio said the vaccine will “revolutionize” the city’s fight against the coronavirus. Teams deployed by the FDNY started vaccinating seniors in Co-op City in the Bronx on Thursday and will move to Brighton Beach on Friday.
High schools have been shuttered for in-person classes since November, and are the last remaining sector of the public school system closed for face-to-face classes.
Unlike the Pfizer and Moderna vaccines, which were first released to the public in December and require two doses, the Johnson & Johnson vaccine requires only one dose to be effective.
"The executive can no longer use the pandemic as a shield to circumvent the independent oversight enshrined in long-standing statutes and rules," Stringer said in a Wednesday statement.