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Adding to Healthcare Workers and Nursing Homes, EMTs and Firefighters Start to Get Vaccinated

Adding to Healthcare Workers and Nursing Homes, EMTs and Firefighters Start to Get Vaccinated

By Yehudit Garmaise 

    While healthcare workers, emergency service workers, and residents and staff of nursing homes continue to get vaccinated this week, other essential healthcare workers who are First Responders, including firefighters, emergency medical technicians, and paramedics will get the Moderna COVID-19 vaccine Thursday.

    Firefighters who are not First Responders and other essential frontline workers are scheduled to start receiving their shots on Dec. 29, announced FDNY Commissioner Daniel A. Nigro, who added that science shows that even people who have had COVID need to take the vaccine to protect themselves and everyone around them. 

    This morning Mayor Bill de Blasio, who repeatedly has said, along with city's top doctors, that that the vaccine is safe and effective, and that all New Yorkers should take it, announced that the general public, starting with people over the age of 75 and/or with underlying conditions, will probably start to get vaccinated in February and March.                                                                                     

     “This is a great day for the FDNY, " said Commissioner Nigro. "Science has answered the call for help from our department and all essential frontline healthcare workers and produced a vaccine to combat this deadly illness. 

    “I strongly encourage all of our members to take the COVID-19 vaccine offered through the department to protect themselves, their colleagues, and their loved ones.” 

   Since May, 5,700 New Yorker City firefighters have contracted COVID and hundreds of firefighters and emergency medical workers in New York state have sadly passed away from the virus.

   Mayor de Blasio also explained today at his press conference that U.S. Centers for Disease Control and the state of New York determines whom get the vaccines and when. 

   “At the national, state, local level, everyone has been in agreement,” the mayor said this morning. “The folks who have the most crucial role in protecting everyone else, need to be protected [from COVID] first.


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