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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 on Tuesday. Manhattan had the highest rate of vaccination. The South Bronx, Central Brooklyn, and pa...

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 administration's roll-out of the first batches of the covid vaccine, members of the Council’s committees on hospitals and health asked the city's top health department officials why the city wasn't doing more to inoculate underserved and ha...

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 data showing inequitable death and illness rates in low-income areas. “The very folks who are at g...

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 alternative and what I have seen and experienced is far worse,” Lindsay told The New York Times, re...