A 🧵: New Yorkers know the only thing that can heal them and kickstart our recovery is getting COVID-19 vaccines in as many arms as possible, with a real-time assessment that ensures our most highly impacted ZIP codes are sufficiently supplied and staffed.
New Yorkers are seeing a lot more rhetoric than results in the early weeks of this mass vaccination campaign. They are getting sick of the finger pointing from City Hall to the State Capitol and back.
It's good news that our call to expand vaccine eligibility has been heard, but we must see on the ground if that turns into real action. We need to get New Yorkers pre-registered now so that not a single dose is wasted in our pursuit of herd immunity.
This mission demands a 24/7, all-hands mobilization. I urge @NYCMayor and @NYGovCuomo to implement our vaccine distribution plan in full, including a far more robust public education campaign led by credible messengers in our most vulnerable communities.
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NYC VACCINE UPDATE:
Reserve Your Vaccination Time
🔹Mass Vaccination Sites - OPEN SUNDAY 24/7
🔸Brooklyn: Grand Army Terminal Annex Building 80 58th Street
🔸Bronx: Bathgate Industrial Park 1648-1674 Bathgate Ave.
🔹Coming SOON:
🔸Queens Theater (QNS)
🔸La Marqueta (Manhattan)
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
🔹In just one week the Javits center has been transformed
🔹Strategy:
🔹1. Flatten the curve
🔹2. Increase hospital capacity
🔹Balancing public education with public health
🔹Schools will remain closed preliminarily for another two weeks, past the April 1st deadline and every school district has to come up with plans to continue
🔹Will continue the 180 day waiver for number of days for school year
🔹21 days for the possible apex
🔹Looking at other options for hospital locations, converting dorms and hotels
🔹Still shopping for PPEs and ventilators
🔹People are on ventilators much longer with #COVID19 - up to 20 days
🔹Need 140K beds - currently have 53K
🔹Need 40k ICU beds - currently have 3K