New Yorkers 50 and Older, No Longer Need Vaccination Appointments
New Yorkers who are 50 and older no longer need to make appointments to vaccinated at more than 30 locations throughout the five boroughs, announced Mayor Bill de Blasio, who had previously only allowed walk-in shots for New Yorkers 75 and older.
“Starting TODAY, New Yorkers 50 and older can walk into any City-run site and get vaccinated. No appointment necessary,” Mayor de Blasio tweeted on Shabbos.
The mayor made his announcement today in the hopes that providing walk-in appointments, hassle-free, will help him to reach his goal to vaccinated 5 million New Yorkers by June.
In what has become a vigorous vaccination rollout, 5,610,001 city residents have already gotten at least one shot at one of the city’s more than 600 vaccination sites, according to the city’s Health Department’s web page.
Further good news that the end of the COVID pandemic is in sight, is that day by day, both the number of New Yorkers who are hospitalized with COVID-19 and the state’s positivity rate continue to decline, Gov. Andrew Cuomo announced on Shabbos.
On Friday, 2.78% of the state’s COVID-19 test results came back positive, which continued to decrease after Thursday’s number of 2.8%.
In addition, the 3,834 New Yorkers who were hospitalized for COVID on Friday was the lowest that number has been since Nov. 30, Gov. Cuomo said.
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