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Fighting distrust among Black people in Syracuse over Covid vaccine: ‘Be an example’ Syracuse.com 2/22/2021 Patrick Lohmann, syracuse.com © N. Scott Trimble | strimble@syracuse.com/N. Scott Trimble | strimble@syracuse.com/syracuse.com/TNS Onondaga County workers administer coronavirus vaccinations at the Boys & Girls Club of Syracuse Thursday, February 18, 2021. SYRACUSE, N.Y. – Juanita Nelson beamed as she stepped out of the People’s AME Zion church, having just received the second dose of the Covid-19 vaccine. “I didn’t even feel it,” Nelson, a Black woman...

2:09 County data shows that a lower proportion of eligible Black and Latinx community members have received their first dose of COVID-19 vaccine. They were able to vaccinate public housing residents, new Americans, Centro staff and homeless shelter employees. McMahon said without these clinics, the vaccine equity numbers would be worse. “We are underperforming in the Latino community. And we still do have some work to do in the African-American community as well. If we did not do those pop up sites last week and this week, these numbers would be very bad. It shows that we are going to need...

Cuomo: 35 new pop-up COVID vaccination sites coming to NY this week By FOX 5 NY Staff Published  Confusion over NY vaccine expansion Some county officials around New York are urging Governor Cuomo to give them more guidance on his decision to extend vaccine eligibility, after Cuomo announced that restaurant workers and even Uber drivers could be added to the list of people who can get the shot. NEW YORK - Governor Andrew Cuomo has announced that 35 new community-based pop-up COVID-19 vaccination sites will be coming online this week at churches, community centers, public housing complexes, a...

New York last month started a few pop-up sites, and they have provided nearly 9,000 first COVID-19 doses.

Share 35 Additional Community Vaccination Kits Deployed to NYCHA Senior Housing Developments, Public Housing Sites, Churches and Community Centers Statewide   Sites will Vaccinate Over 25,000 People This Week and Bolster State's Commitment to Ensuring Fairness and Equity in Vaccine Distribution Process   Past Deployment of Kits Have Enabled Over 9,000 New Yorkers to Receive First Dosage of Vaccine at Community-Based ‘Pop Up’ Vaccination Sites   WYSIWYG Governor Andrew M. Cuomo today announced 35 community-based pop-up vaccination sites coming online this week at churches, com...