Thread by @BKBoroHall

Update from today’s @NYCMayor’s briefing:

NYC (Compared with 1/05):
🔹Hospitalizations: 273
🔹Hospitalization Rate: 4.28%
🔹New Reported Cases (Over 7-Day Rolling Average): 3,870 (Including “Probable” Cases)
🔹Citywide Positive Tests: 9.21%
🔹Data: nyc.gov/coronavirus

NYC VACCINE UPDATE:
🔹You Can Get A #COVID19 Vaccine If You Are:
🔸Healthcare worker
🔸Resident or staff in group living facilities
🔸Medical examiner or coroner
🔸Funeral worker
🔸Frontline, high-risk public health worker

🔹If you are in any of the specified categories, go online NOW to find a vaccine location in your borough and sign-up to make an appointment: nyc.gov/VaccineLocatio…
🔸Must bring proof of employment with you

🔹Mass Vaccination Sites - OPEN SUNDAY 24/7
🔸Brooklyn: Grand Army Terminal Annex Building 80 58th Street
🔸Bronx: Bathgate Industrial Park 1648-1674 Bathgate Avenue
🔹Coming SOON:
🔸Queens Theater (Queens)
🔸La Marqueta (Manhattan)

🔹Vaccine Reservations:
🔸MONDAY: City launching vaccine reservation call center
🔸NEXT WEEK: City launching #MyTurnNYC

Small Business Help:
🔹Three New City Mentorship Programs to Help Small Business:
🔸Will help 1,300 small business owners in first year
🔸Small Business Mentors NYC - For existing storefront business owners in underrepresented communities seeking to grow their business

🔸BE NYC Mentors - For Black entrepreneurs with pre-startup & newly formed businesses
🔸M/WBE Mentors Program - For NYC’s certified M/WBEs to expand their access to mentors, networking opportunities & contracting opportunities
🔸VISIT: nyc.gov/businessmentors