6:14 Newburgh’s mayor wants the state to set up a COVID-19 vaccination site in the city. As the mid-Hudson Valley’s only area with state-imposed zone restrictions, he says it makes sense. Meantime, the Orange County executive says the state could set up a site where the county already is operating clinics, in a space that could accommodate more capacity. Democratic Newburgh Mayor Torrance Harvey says with the state’s yellow-zone designation still in place in his city, the state should set up a vaccination site. “A couple of weeks ago, the governor lifted restrictions in all the areas throughout New York except four areas, an then Newburgh was the only one in the mid-Hudson region, the mid-Hudson Valley that still has a yellow-zone restricted cluster, right? So if that’s the case, give us a vaccination site. That’s what I’ve been asking for. I’ve talked to Senator Schumer; I’ve talked to Gillibrand; I’ve called and spoke to Congressman Maloney; state Senator Skoufis; Assemblyman Jacobson. I pulled out all the political capital that I could to ask the governor to please give us a site,” says Harvey. “We know that these types of communities where there’s high density and our population, it’s an urban setting with African-Americans and Hispanics, we’re the most vulnerable population. I prove myself; I’m still waiting to get vaccinated, and I’m an educator as well. I’m in the 1B group as a teacher as well, and I can’t even get on the site to register and get an appointment.”